US1018020A - Jet-pipe-cleaning attachment. - Google Patents

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H. E. WERNER.

JET PIP?J CLEANING ATTAGHMBNT. APPLICATION FILED JULY 10, 1911.

1,018,020. Q Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

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APPLIOATION PILBp 101.1110, 1911.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

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HENRY E. WERNER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIG-NOR VT E.l GOLDMAN & CO. INC., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 0F ILLINOIS.

J ET-PIPE-CLEANING ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented Feb. 2o, 1912.

Application filed July 10, 1911. Serial No. 637,845.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY E. IVERNER, 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 Jet-Pipe-Cleaning Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

In thevarious uses of jet-pipes of the kind in which a pipe is provided with a series of jetting-nozzles, these nozzles are liable to become clogged with foreign or sedimentary matter carried by the fluid jetted through the pipes. rllhis is particularly the case in bottle-washing machines, for use with which I have more immediately devised my improved cleaning-attachment, and especially for use in the machine forming the subject of the pending application for Letters Patent of J. T. H. Paul, Serial No. 579,470, Iiled August 29th, 1910.

In the machine referred to a tank is employed, divided into a series of compartments for containing the cleansing water, which is pumped from the compartments through jet-pipes supported to extend across the latter in sets for jetting the water into and against bottles supported in inverted position on an endless carrier caused to travel intermittently to bring the bottles at intervals into and arrest them in registration with the jets for the cleansing action of the water therefrom.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a broken plan view showing a set of jetpipes on their support' and equipped with my nozzle-cleaning improvement; Fig. 2 is a broken and partly sectional view showing the same in end elevation with inverted bottles on the carrier and registering with the nozzles; Fig. 3 is an enlarged broken section on line 3, Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an enlarged broken section on line 4, Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged section on line 5, Fig. 3.

My cleaning device comprises, as the preferred embodiment of my invention, a rod or bar extending lengthwise in the jet-tube and having pins extending at intervals from it to register with the jetting-nozzles, with means for working the rod or bar back and forth relative to the inner ends of the nozzles and thereby reciprocate the pins in the latter for clearing them.

Only so much of the aforesaid machine is illustrated in the drawings herein as to enable the application thereto of my improvement to be readily understood.

Endless chains forminga conveyer (not shown), with racks 6 extending at intervals betweenthe chains forsupporting bott-les 7 in inverted position, are supported to travel onfa track S'lengthwise of the tank `(not shown) on suitable frame-work 9. Below the path over the tank of the bottles, across each of several of the tank compartments extends from a header 10, into which a pump (not shown) discharges, a set of parallel pipes 11 provided with longitudinal series of nozzles 12. The sets of jet-pipes are supported on beams 13 upon the frame-work 9. In each pipe 11 extends lengthwise thereof a bar 14 with a longitudinal series of pins 15 projecting from it to register with the nozzles 12. Stufing-boxes 16 depend from openings lat intervals in the bottom of each pipe, and about the two extreme pipes of the set are fastened, adjacent to the stuflingboxes thereof, yokes 17 forming bearings 18 for rock-shafts 19, which pass transversely across and beneath the set of pipes. Crankarms 20 extend at intervals from each rockshaft 19 and have connected to their outer ends links 21, those on each rock-shaft carrying a rod 22 with heads 23 upon it, and from these heads rise stems 24 through the respective stuffing-boxes with which they register, the stems being screwed into the bar 14.

For operating the rock-shafts 19 simultaneously they are connected through the medium of arms 25, 25 depending inclinedly from their corresponding ends, and a reciprocable bar 26, to which the lower ends of the arms 25 are pivoted, with an operating lever 27 fulcrumed at one end on a support 28 forming a bearing for the bar 26, which is pivotally connected with the lever between its ends. By Working the lever back and forth, which operation may be performed at required intervals, the shafts 19 are rocked and thereby actuate the rods 22 to reciprocate the stems 24 and bars 14, thus working the pins 15 in the nozzles to clear them of clogging matter.

lllVhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In combination with a jet-pipe, a nozl from the bar to register with the nozzles, openings in the pipe provided with stuffingn boxes, stems extending through the stuffingboxes and Connected at their inner ends With the bar, a rock-shaft supported on the pipe, connections between the rock-shaft and stems for reciprocating the stems by rooking said shaft, and means for operating the rock-shaft, for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination With a set of jet-pipes, a nozzle-cleaning device therefor', comprising bars in the pipes bodily-movable back uand forth relative to the nozzles, pins eX- tending from the bars to register With the nozzles, openings in the pipes provided with Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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