US1078253A - Pipe-cleaner. - Google Patents

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J. D. CAREY & B. GOLDENTHAL.

PIPE CLEANER. APPLICATION FILED DEC}. 16, I912.

Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

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J. I). CAREY 61B. GOLDENTHAL.

PIPE CLEANER. APPLICATION FILED DEO.16, 1912.

1,078,253. Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

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PIPE-CLEANER.

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Patent d Nov. 11, 1913.

.Applieation filed December 16,1912. Serial No; 737,014. r

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J AMES D. CAREY and BERNARD GOLDENTHAL, citizens of the United States, residing at New Haven in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful-Improvement in Pipe-Cleaners; and Wade hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent,

Figure 1 a top or plan view of a pipe cleaner constructed in accordance with our invention and shown in connection with two beer pipes. Fig. 2 an end view of the same. Fig. 3 a plan view of the cleaning device detached, on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 a side view. Fig. 5 a rear view. Fig. 6 a sectional view on the line a-b of Fig. 3. Fig. 7 a sectional view on the line 0cl of Fig. 3 with the T and two upper nipples in elevation.

This invention relates to an improvement in pipe cleaners, and while especially adapted for cleaning pipes leading from beer barrels to the faucets, it is equally applicable for cleaning pipes of soda water fountains, boilers or any other pipes which may be coupled in pairs.

The object of this invention is to provide a device which may be readily connected with two faucets or other openings from two pipes the ends of which may be coupled together, and so that the cleaning solution may be forced through the pipes firstin one direction and then in the opposite direction; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

In carrying out our invention, we employ two cylinders 2, 3, preferably formed from glass and closed at their ends by plates 4, 5,

secured together by bolts 6. Opening through the plate 4 into the respective cylinders are nipples 7 8, which may be connpctpd by flexible tubes 9, 10, with faucets 1 2. a

In illustrating our invention we have shown the device in connection with beer pipes, the faucet 11 being connected with one end of a refrigerating coil 13 which extends to a barrel 14, and the other faucet 12 connected to a refrigerating coil 15 leading to abarrel 16." In theplate 4 and leading into the cylinder 3, is a"feed-opening 17 closed sby a screw cap 18.. In the plate 5 are inlet or outlet pipes '19, 20, respectively connected with a valve-casing 21 containing a valve 22fthe casing having a passage at the top to a T 23 the opposite ends 24, 25, of'which are adapted to be respectively connected with an airsupply pipe 26 and a water supply pipe 27*pro-vided with the usual control valves 31, 32. Below the T a n'ipple 28 for connection with a pipe leading to a drain. The valve is adapted to open a passage from the Ttoeither of the pipes 19 and 20. When the valve is turned to allow water or air to pass to the pipe 19 the passage from the pipe 20 through the nipple 28 will be open, and when the passage is open from the T to the pipe 20 the passage from the pipe 19 to the drain 28 Will be opened.

Preparatory to cleaning the pipes air may be forced through the coils so as to drive the contents back into the barrels or receptacles and then the ends 29, 30, will be disconnected from their respective barrels or reservoirs and coupled together, as shown in broken lines in Fig. 1. A suitable cleaning solution will then be placed in the cylinder 3 through the opening 17 and the valve 22 will be turned so as to open the passage from the T 23 to the cylinder 3 at which time the cylinder 2 will have an opening to the drain. Water then being admitted through the tube 27 will pass through the T and enter the cylinder 3 and force the cleaning solution therein through the tube 10 through the open faucet 12 and through the coil 15 into the coil 13 from which it will pass through the open faucet 11 and tube 9 into the cylinder 2. This cylinder being transparent, the operator can see when the cleansing solution has reached the cylinder 2. When the cleaning solution has made-a cir'cuitand reached the cylinder 2, .the valve 22. is reversed so as to open the inlet into the cylinder 2 and open the outlet and forth, so to speak, by turning the valve 22 so as to apply pressure alternately in opposite directions. When the pipes are thoroughly cleansed the Water supply maybe shut off, and air admitted so as to drive. the.

solution out of the coils. When desired air andwater may .bealternately admitted so as to aeratei the cleansing solution and assist in its action.

The illustration of the application of our device to 'beer, pipes will be suiiicienti to en-- able othersto use? the same in cleansing pipes ofv soda Water fiountains, boiler tubes; orany other pipesv which may be coupled together in, pairs or series so that a circuit is formed through- Which the cleansing solution be passed in one direction orthe other;

A. pipe cleaner comprisingtwo glass cy-l inder-s, plates: at the opposite ends, of? said cylinders, said plates connected together whereby the ends of the cylinders are tightly closed; the plates at one end formed With outlets and adapted to be coupled vwith the pipes to be cleaned, the plates at the opposite ends formed with inlets, a valve ;connected with said inlets and controlling the opening into either cylinder, a T, openiing into said valve, air and Water pipes respectively connected with opposite ends of rvsaid T, and means controlled by said valve for allowingthe escape of the contents from either cylinder-..

' In testimony whereot, We have signed this speeifieetion in the plesenee of two; subscribe ing- Witnesses;

JAMES D. CAREY. BERNARD GOLD-ENTHAL. Witnesses:

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CLARA Lt WEED.

Gopies of thispaten-t may be obtained'for five cents; each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eaten-ts,

. Washington, D1. 0.,"

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