GB190219256A - Improvements relating to Machines for Cleansing Bottles and Similar Vessels. - Google Patents

Abstract

19,256. Cunningham, W. J. Sept. 2. Bottles &c., washing.-Fig. 1 shows a vertical section of the machine. The bottles are placed over brushes 13 carried on a series of radial tubular arms 12 mounted on a shaft 6 and provided with ports, which, in turn, communicate with ports supplied with cleansing-fluid through a pipe 16. Discs 40, 23 carry brushes, and are rotated in opposite directions by a series of gear wheels 28, 27, 25, 24, and 46, 45, 43, 42, respectively. The shaft 6 and arms 12 are driven by gear-wheels 7, 8, 10, 56, 24, &c. The arms 12 are provided with small brushes for the rims of the bottle mouths, and also carry fixed brushes for the outsides. The bottles are caused to rotate by contact with rubber pieces carried by slotted rim sections 31 of the disc 23, which are adjusted by means of rollers 35 on a bar 36, operated by a cam-piece 38. Rubber contact-pieces 41 are also carried by the disc 40. The bottoms of the bottles are cleaned by a brush surface arranged on a track 52 in a tank 2 The track may be provided with projecting spring portions to cause the bottles to reciprocate. A shifting - lever is provided for adjusting the disc 23.