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-Jf * 187955- CLASS 6 / .. GROUP

HENRY SAMUEL GREGORY in LONDON.

Barrel cleaning machine. Patented in the German Empire on February 20, 1907.

recognized on the basis of registration in England on June 11, 1906.

This barrel cleaning machine is of the known type in which the barrels on a rotatable plate sit and the detergent through a spray nozzle in such a way in the barrels is introduced that their interior is completely exposed to the action of the detergent is. The characteristic of the invention is that the flow energy of the cleaning agent is used to the plate carrying the barrel during the cleaning process turn.

For this purpose, the cleaning agent is passed through before it is supplied to the spray nozzle a motor (turbine) so that it hits the turbine blades by hitting the .Motor shaft and a gear train arranged on it in rotation. This is engaged with a drive wheel attached to the underside of the rotatable plate, so that a take-away the plate carrying the barrel takes place. After leaving the engine, the cleaning agent flows through a pipe running centrally through the plate to the spray nozzle, which is inserted into the tap hole of the barrel.

In order to enable the engine to work reliably at all times, it is on the underbody its housing a removable basket or a pickup of any type arranged so that any solid bodies taken along by the cleaning agent after being hit fall on the blades in this extractor and temporarily removed from here as required can be.

. If several barrels are to be cleaned at the same time, the barrels are arranged supporting plates on a turntable. With such an arrangement, the The motors are fed from a centrally located supply pipe, from which lead radial lines to the motors; the connection of the central line with the radial pipes are made by means of a valve or cock, the rotatable part of which is mounted on ball bearings rests. This shut-off device acts in such a way that the supply of the cleaning agent to one or more of the barrels is interrupted at a given moment so that the barrel or barrels removed after cleaning and each through an uncleaned barrel can be replaced while the remaining barrels are still subject to cleaning and themselves are automatically rotating under the action of the cleaning agent.

The subject matter of the invention is illustrated in two embodiments on the drawing.

Fig. Ι is the cross section through one embodiment ;

Fig. 2 is a schematic plan view of a multi-barrel turntable;

Claims (4)

Fig. 3 is a cross section of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a section through a shut-off device for the use of a turntable. For cleaning purposes, the barrel a is placed in a known manner on a plate b supported by balls; the lower part b1 of the plate b stands with a. Spur gear δ2 in connection, which engages in a drive wheel c seated on the shaft c1 of the motor (turbine c2). The cleaning fluid is supplied to the engine through a line c3, while the outlet line c4 is designed as a bend, penetrates plate b and opens into a spray nozzle c5. When the cleaning agent is introduced into the motor under pressure, the pressure level being able to be regulated in any way before it enters, the motor is set in rotation and, accordingly, through the intermediary of the gears c and b1, the plate b and the barrel carried by it are also set a; After leaving the engine, the cleaning agent passes through line c4 and through the spray nozzle c5 into the interior of the barrel for cleaning. In order to prevent solid bodies, which may be contained in the cleaning agent, from impairing the operability of the engine, its housing carries at its bottom a receiver or separator c6, which is detachably attached so that after the cleaning agent acts on the turbine blades has taken place, the solid bodies can fall into the separator ce, which is emptied from time to time as required. In the embodiment of Figures 2 and 3, a cleaning device is provided for a number of barrels; the turntable d carries the small plates b, b, which are used to store the barrels a and set them in rotation under the action of the gear mechanism c and δ2. Each of the motors c2 is connected by a radially extending pipe e1 to a centrally arranged cock or valve or to another closing element e. Its inner part e2 (FIG. 4) is designed in such a way that it enables the cleaning agent to pass from the supply line f through the transverse slot e3 to a number of radial tubes e1, while at ei the cleaning agent can pass over to the other Pipes el is interrupted. The cleaned barrels connected to the lines that are temporarily not fed can be removed and replaced by uncleaned ones, while the other barrels are rotating on their plates b. Pat τ claims: 1. Barrel cleaning machine, in which the cleaning agent by means of a spray nozzle is passed into the interior of the barrel, characterized in that the flow energy of the cleaning agent is used to cause the rotary movement of the barrel to be cleaned. 2. barrel cleaning machine according to claim τ, characterized in that the cleaning agent flows through a motor (c ² ) before being fed to the nozzle, whereby a plate carrying the barrel (b) is set in rotation by means of a gear connected to it. 3. barrel cleaning machine according to claim ι and 2, characterized by the arrangement of a separator fc ¹³ ) on the underbody of the motor fc ² ), in which any solid bodies contained in the cleaning liquid fall and can be removed therefrom as required. 4. barrel cleaning machine according to claims i, 2 and 3 with several rotating plates (b) carrying the barrels on a turntable (d), characterized in that the motors belonging to the individual plates (b) are controlled by a central control member (e) be fed in such a way that at a given moment the supply line is interrupted for at least one barrel in order to be able to replace a cleaned barrel while the other barrels are being cleaned. 1 sheet of drawings.