US1017996A - Bottle-carrier. - Google Patents

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J. T. H. PAUL.

BOTTLE CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 1911.

1,017,996. Patented Feb.20, 1912.

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J. T. H. PAUL.

BOTTLE CARRIER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 19 11. 1,017,996. Patented Feb. 20, 1912;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. H. PAUL, OF CHICAGO, ILIiINOIS, ASSIGNOR T E. GOLDMAN 86 00., INC., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

Application filed March 22, 1911. Serial No. 616,216.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN T. H. PAUL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvementin the construction of carriers for support ing in inverted position bottles on a conveyer traversing cleaning means in a machine for washing the bottles and soaking off their labels. Such a machine forms the subject of my pending application for Letters Patent. Serial No. 579,470, filed August 29, 1910; and I have devised my present improvement more particularly for use therein, to attain the advantages hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in broken section on line 1, Fig. 2, illustrating so much of my aforesaid machine as is necessary to show the operative connection therewith of my improved bottle-carrier; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the showing in Fig. 1, but without the bottles in the carrier and the stop-shield over the path of the bottles; Fig. 3 is a section on the irregular line 33, Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a section on line 4, Fig. 3.

The base of my improved carrier is a single rigid bar 5, to one face at each end of which is bolted a rectangular metal block 6 provided with forward and rear recessed faces 7 and 8 and having an arm 9 extend ing perpendicularly from it, the arm terminating in a perforate head 10 which projects outwardly from the arm at a rightangle thereto. A frame 11 comprising a pair of diverging side- members 12, 12 con nected by a cross-member 13 with eyes 14, 1 1 at the junctions, embraces each block 6 at the converging relatively-wide ends of the members 12, where they are let into the block-recesses, and they and the block are rigidly secured to the bar 5 by a bolt 15 passed through them. Only one end of the bar is illustrated in the drawings, but both ends are similarly equipped with the arm and frame carrying blocks, as will be readily understood without illustrating the other end. Between the two frames 11 extends a grid 16 comprising a casting. formed with a series of similar rings 17 and provided on its ends with ears 18 through which it is bolted to the eyes 14 of the frames 11. Similar nozzle-devices 19 are rigidly secured, at uniform intervals apart, to a face of the bar 5. Each of these devices is a casting comprising a hollow, internally and externally tapering body 20 (Fig. 1) with three webs 21 extending from it at uniform intervals apart and terminating adjacent to the narrower end of the body in notches 22 having shoulders to afford about a etting tube 23, which extends centrally from the body and constitutes the nozzle proper, a seat for the neckend of an inverted bottle 24; and angular feet 25 extend outwardly from two of the webs, at the base-portion of the body 20, through which to bolt the nozzle-device to the face of the bar 5. The nozzle-devices are so disposed relative to the grid 16 as t register each nozzle 23 with the center of a ring 17.

As explained in my aforesaid application, the tank (not herein shown) has sets of jetpipes 26 supported to extend across it at intervals for jetting the washingdiquid contained in the tank into and against the outer surfaces of bottles presented to them intermittently in inverted position. It is for handling the bottles to better advantage in the machine that I have provided the improved carrier hereinbefore described. A track, one rail of which is represented at 27, is sup ported to extend lengthwise about the tank, and upon these rails endless chains, a portion of one of which is shown at 28, are caused to travel intermittently, the chains carrying rollers 29 at intervals to ride on the track. Corresponding links of the chains have perforated ears 30 extending inwardly from them for riveting thereto, as represented at 31 in Fig. 1, the heads 10 of the carriers, whereby the latter are disposed on the conveyer formed by the traveling chains at uniform intervals apart to adapt them to present the inverted bottles with which they are loaded and the nozzle-devices to successive sets of the jaws 011 the pipes 26 by each intermittent movement of the conveyer. shield 32 extends over the path of the bottles about the tank to afford a stop for the bottles and deflect water from the nozzles back into the tank.

The more important objects of my improvement in the construction of the carrier are to reduce its number of parts to the minimum to simplify and render it as light as is practicable with due consideration for strength, and to which end the base is composed of the single bar 5; to provide the conical nozzle-bodies 20 with the seats in the web-ends about the tubes 23 to center the bottles at their necks and reduce to the minimum liability of breaking them in loading them necledownward into the carrier through the rings 17 and to render the carrier as open as possible to aiford space all about the bodies of the bottles for shedding freely the labels washed from the bottles without tendency to disintegrate them and obstruct their being flushed away in whole condition, thereby to avoid clogging of the apparatus by the material of the labels if they should be torn up or disintegrated in removing them. Moreover, my improved construction of the carrier adapts it for holding any size of bottle to be cleansed, from a split to a large quart; and its open structure not only adapts it to easily and freely discharge the bottles by tilting it, but also permits the bottles to be removed readily by hand.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A bottle-carrier for the purpose set forth, comprising, in combination, a bar provided on its ends with means for connecting it with conveyerchains, frames extending from said ends, a grid secured at its ends to said frames and having a series of bottle guiding and encircling rings, and nozzledevices secured at intervals to the bar to register their jetting-tubes with the centers of said rings.

2. A bottle-carrier for the purpose set forth, comprising, in combination, a bar provided on its ends with blocks having angular arms extending from them for connection with conveyer-chains, frames secured to the blocks, a grid secured at its ends to said frames and having a series of bottle guiding and encircling rings, and nozzle-devices secured at intervals to the bar to register their jetting-tubes with the centers of said rings.

A bottle-carrier for the purpose set forth, co1nprising,in combination, a bar provided on its ends with means by which to secure the carrier to a support, a grid supported on the bar and having a series of bottle guiding and encircling rings, and nozzle-devices having hollow bodies and jet ting-tubes and webs extending from them with seat-forming notches in the web-ends about the tubes, said bodies being secured at intervals to the bar to register the ettingtubes with the centers of said rings.

A bottle-carrier for the purpose set forth, comprising, in combination, a bar provided on its ends with means by which to secure the carrier to a support, a grid sup ported on the bar and having, a series of bottle guiding and encircling rings, and nozzledevices consisting of hollow tapering bodies having jetting-tubes and webs extending from them with seat-forming notches in the web-ends about the tubes and angular feet on members of the webs at which the nozzle devices are secured to a face of said bar at intervals to register the jetting-tubes with the centers of said rings.

JOHN T. n. PAUL.

In presence of g A. U. THoRIEN, R. A. SOHAFER.

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