US1110927A - Bottle-cleaning apparatus. - Google Patents

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J. R, GRUETTER. BOTTLE CLEANING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.30,1910.

1,1 10,927. A Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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BOTTLE CLEANING APPARATUS.

APPLIGATIUN IILEI) MAR.30, 1910.

1 1 1 0,927, Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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Ajjy'i THE NORRIS PETERS C0, PHOTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON. D, C.

J. R. GRUBTTER.

BOTTLE CLEANING APIMARATUS APPLICATION FILED MAR.30, 1910.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PE J. R. GRUETTER.

BOTTLE CLEANING AIPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30, 1910.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS 60., PHOTO-LITHO, WASHINGTON. D. L

J. R. GRUBTTBR.

BOTTLE CLEANING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 111113.30, 1910.

1,1 10,927, Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFTOE.

JOHN R. GRUETTER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE LOEW MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

BOTTLE-CLEANING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 15, T914.

Application filed March 20,1910. Serial No. 552,386.

"Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Cleaning Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning bottles and more particularly to an apparatus of the rotary type of bottle cleaner and washer such as shown in Patent #950,934, issued March 1, 1910.

The general objects of the invention are to provide an apparatus of this character which shall be efficient in operation, insuring thorough and rapid cleaning of the bottles; to provide such apparatus with efficient means for brushing or cleaning the exteriors of the bottles during their transit in the rotating or moving carrier; to provide means whereby the bottles may be automatically removed from the machine at the end of the cleaning operation; also to provide means whereby the supply of water to the brushers or rinsers, which are temporarily adjacent to the bottle-removing means, may be automatically out off.

With the foregoing objects in view, the invention may be defined further and generally as consisting of the combinations of elements embodied in the claims hereto annexed and illustrated, in one exemplification, in the drawings forming a part'hereof, wherein, I

Figure 1. represents a side elevation of a bottle-washing machine constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a verti cal sectional view taken through the center of the machine shown in the preceding figure, the machine being shown on an enlarged scale and the bottle-removing device being omitted; Fig. 3 represents a horizontal sectional view corresponding to the line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4. represents a top plan view of the devices for brushing or cleaning the exteriors of the bottles; Figs. 5, 6 and T-are details, respectively, in front elevation, top plan view and vertical section of the exterior brushing device; Fig. 8 represents a top plan view of the apparatus shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 9, a detail of the base of my apparatus; Fig. 10, an enlarged sectional detail corresponding to the line 1010 of Fig. 2; Fig. 1.1, an

enlarged vertical sectional view through the water supply and cut-off chamber; Fig. 12, a vertical sectional detail taken through the devices for cleaning the inside of a bottle; and Fig. 13, an enlarged sectional detail of the means for supplying water to the in' terior of a bottle.

The invention shown herein comprises generally a bottle-supporting frame or carrier consisting of a pair of spaced rings, one of said rings having bottom clamps and the other having mouth clamps for the bottles; a brush-supporting and operating frame consisting of an upper guide ring located below the lower ring of the bottle-supporting frame with means whereby brushes may be rotated and be reciprocated through said ring and into the bottles thereabove; means for rotating the bottle and brush-carrying frames. at uniform speed; means whereby the brushes will be reciprocated during such rotation; means whereby the bottles will be subjected, during a portion of their period of rotation, to the action of external brushing means and will be rotated, during the operation of the external brushing means, in a direction opposite to that in which such brush is driven; means for automatically removing the bottles from their carrier or frame; means for automatically supplying water to the bottles during the rotation of the carrier frame; and means for automatically cutting off the supply of water to the bottles and the cleaning means when the bottles reach the removing apparatus.

Describing the parts by reference characters, 1 denotes the base of the apparatus, said base being provided with an inlet passageway 2 leading to a central passageway 3. The base is provided with an annular trackway 4:, onwhich the rotating frame work is supported by means of rollers, to be de scribed hereinafter.

5 denotes a standard projecting upwardly from the base at one side thereof and having at its upper end an arm' 6 having forks 6 extending over and beyond the top of the apparatus.

7 denotes a vertical drive shaft having its upper end journaled in the arm 6, as shown at 8, and its lower end journaled in the sleeve 9 supported by the base, the lower end of the shaft being supported on the sleeve by means of a ball-bearing 10. The

upper end of the shaft 7 is provided with frame 1 and is provided with gears 20 andi '21 and with sprocket wheels 22 and '23.. The gears 18 and 20 and the sprocket wheel? 23 are shown as resting on bearings ro-; vided in brackets 24, 25 and 26, the rst-: mentioned bearing being arranged to take? the thrust of the shaft.

Surrounding the shaft 7 is the sleeve:

27. The upper and lower ends of the sleeve? are of somewhat larger internal diameter than the external diameter of the shaft to; receive suitable shaft sleeves or bearings; 2829, the latter sleeves providing antifriction bearings between said sleeve and! the shaft 7. w

30 denotes the hub of a carried memberwhich is carried by and rigid with the sleeve 27. Radial arms 31 connect said hub; with the outer ring 32. This ring is pro- 7 vided with a suit-able number of vertically-- extending perforations for the shafts of the: clamps for-the bottle bottoms.

33 denotes the hub of a similar carrier member, located below the memberjust described. This hub, however, is provided; with an internal thread adapted to mesh: with an external thread 34 on the sleeve? 27 and is provided also with a key 35 by means of which, and the threaded construe tion referred to, the hub may be adjusted! along the sleeve and may be secured to the! latter. Radial arms 36 connect this hub; with the external ring 37, which is pro-= vided with perforations for the reception of the sleeves which carry the bottlemouthi supports and which receive the internal? brushes. The vertical adjustment provided? for the lower carrier member enables the; latter to be moved toward and. from the, upper member to accommodate the dis-{ tance between the members to varying lengths of bottles. For the purposeof securing the lower member in its adjusted position, I provide a pair of clampingrings; 38 and'39 mountedupon the sleeve 27 aboveand below the hub 33, respectively. Each: of these rings may be made inthe form of a hand-wheel, for convenience of manipulation.

40 denotes the hub of a third frame member, located below the former members and rigidly mounted on the sleeve 27. This hub is also connected by radial arms 41 with. an external rlng 42 having apertures registering with the apertures in the ring 37 and cooperating with the latter to form supports for the brush spindle sleeves. Below the last-mentioned frame member is a large gear having a hub 43 rigid with the shaft 7. This gear is preferably of the spur gear type, as indicated at 44, and is adapted torotate the spindles of the internal brushes.

Below the ring 37 is mounted a pan 45, said pan having flanged apertures for the reception of the brush spindle sleeves and being provided with a drain'pipe 46. The rings-32 and 37 carry the supports or clamps for the bottoms and mouths of the bottles.

to be washed. These supports or clamps and the construction and manner of operation of the internal brushing and rinsing devices are shown more particularly in Figs.

[2 and 12.

47 denotes the shaft or stem of one of the bottlebottoni clamps; This shaft projects through the ring 32 andis shown ashaving a head 48 at its upper end, for the purpose of retaining thereon an arm 49 having a 11 50 li d thereto. Below the ring 32 the shaft 47 is'provided with a frustoconical clamp 51' for the bottom of a bottle, said clamp having a neck 52 journaled on the shaft 47. A pinion 53 surrounds saidneck and is secured thereto, as by pins 54. The shaft 47 is vertically slidable relatively to the ring 32, and suitable means is provided to prevent the rotation of the arms 49, the means here illustrated comprising guide pins 47 carried by the arms and pro ecting 1nto suitable apertures 111 the ring. Through each aperture n" the ring 37 there projects a sleeve 55, said sleeve' having a horizontal flange 56 by which it is supported on top of the ring 37 and hav ing an upwardly-flared mouth 57 for the reception of the mouth of a bottle 58. It will be observed that the mouth of the bottle barely rests within the mouth or seat seatmay be provided between the lower end of aninner sleeve 60 and the lower end of an outersleeveGl, which may be fitted-within the aperture of the ring 42, the sleeves 60 and 61 being connectedtogether by means of screw-threads, as shown at 62. The sleeve 60 forms a close fit with, the interior of the sleeve 55 and, whenthe parts are-in the position shown in Fig. 12, which is the position they occupy in operating upon bottles ofmaximum length, the lower end'of the sleeve 55 will besubstantially at the bottom of the annular space between the sleeves 60 and 61, and the upper end of the sleeve 60 will be at the upper end of the cylindrical interior ofthe sleeve 55. It willbe noted that the upper portion of the interior of the sleeve 55 tapers inwardly, as shown at 03, forming, at the upper end of such tapered portion, a guide for the brush municating, by a flexible spindle. The ring 42 is of considerable vertical extent and the apertures which extend from the top to the bottom thereof receive the necks 64: of pinions 65 by which the brush spindles are driven, the ring being projected downwardly below the pinions to provide bearings 66 for said pinions. These pinions are adapted to mesh with the teeth 44 of the large gear carried by the shaft 7, and the sleeves 61 conveniently constitute upwardly-projecting the teeth of the pinions .being preferably shielded by guards 65*.

7 Below the apertures in the ring 42 there are located the brush spindle carriers 67. Each of these is connected, by a pair of vertical rods 68, with the lower part of the ring 42, as shown at 68*, the brush carriers being provided with sleeves 69 slidable along said rods. Each spindle carrier is provided with a roller 70 adapted to engage a cam track 71 carried by the base 1, and of any contour suitable to reciprocate the carriers 67 and cause a reciprocation of the brushes a distance at least the length of the bottles thereabove and to repeat such operation as often as desirable for each rotation of the apparatus. Each carrier is provided with a lateral passageway 72 compipe 73, with a water chamber formed in base and supplied from the passageway 2. The passageway 72 communicates with the chamber 74, which chamber provides a rotary bearing for the lower end of a brush spindle. The brush spindle is shown at 75, and is similar to that shown in Patent #950,934. The spindle is provided with a vertical passageway therethrough, as shown at 76, and has at its upper end a brush 77. The lower end of the brush spindle is supported by a nut 78 threaded thereonto, said nut having upper and lower surfaces reversely tapered or beveled, as shown at 79. The lower beveled surface of the nut forms a bearing with the corresponding beveled surface 80 of the chamber 74. The nut and spindle are retained in place by means of a suitable gland 81 surrounding the spindle 75 and threaded into the carrier above the chamber 74:. The lower end of this gland is preferably tapered, as shown at 82, to correspond to the tapered upper surface of the bearing nut 79. The spindles are each provided with a key-way 75 by which they are slidably keyed to the pinions'65.

F or the purpose of brushing the exteriors of the bottles 58.

necks of said pinions,

the center of the of the bottles during their rotation with the carrier, the following construction is provided:-The bracket 25 is provided with a track 83 formed by downwardly-projecting flanges at its inner end, and the bracket 26 is provided with a similar track 841- formed by upwardly-projecting flanges at its inner end. These tracks are curved, the curves being concentric with the shaft 7 and being located in close proximity to the exterior The brush which I employ consists of an upper chain 85 and a lower chain 86 adapted to be engaged by the rear or outer teeth of the sprockets 22 and 23, the corresponding links of said chains being connected by strips 87, preferably of wood, the strips being shown as secured to flanges 88 and 89 projecting, respectively, from the corresponding side plates of the chains 85 and 86. Each of the strips 87 is provided with a suitable number of bunches of bristles 90. The brackets 25 and 26 are of considerable lateral extent and each is provided near its end with a shaft, said shafts being shown at 91 and 92. One of these shafts, as 92, will be preferably mounted in boxes 93, the boxes being slidably supported in suitable bearings formed in the brackets, and the boxes being pressed outwardly by means of springs 94. The shafts 91 and 92 are provided with sprocket wheels corresponding in vertical location to thesprocket wheels 22 and 23, the lower sprocket wheels being shown in Fig. 3 at 95and 96.

For the purpose of driving the chain and brush in the same direction as the bottle carrier and in the reverse direction from the rotation of the bottles on their axes, the gear 20 on shaft 19 meshes with a gear 97 on an intermediate shaft 98 which is connected by a chain 99 and sprocket 100 with shaft 91. By this arrangement, the rotation of the shaft 19 is transmitted to the shaft 98 and the latter is connected to shaft 91, which drives the shaft 92 and the brush in a direction opposite to the rotation of the bottleson the carrier.

For the purpose of automatically removing the bottles, I provide a cam 101, carried by the outer ends of the arms 6 and ar-- ranged to engage the rollers 50 and move the bottom clamps 51 away from the bottoms of the bottles, together with means adapted to engage the bottles at this time and automatically remove the same from the carrier frames. For the purpose of so removing the bottles after the clamps have been lifted, the following construction is k 32 is provided with a plurality of U-shaped frames comprising a pair of downwardlyprojecting arms 102 connected at their lower ends by a curved cross bar or cam 103, the cross bars being arranged in such manner that, assuming the machine to be rotating in pro ecting in like manner uponthe to deflect thebottles outwardly when their; progress is arrested while the bottle-carrier continues-itsrotation-in the direction ofthel the arms 6 the directionindicated by the arrowsand the be arrested, each cross bar will engagethe body of the bottle 7 and tend to move the bottle outwardly. The

plurality of horivzontally-extending curved arms or cams 104,; in-proximityto the necks of the of substantially, the same contour 3 103and operatingnecks of the bottles;

movement of a bottle to ring 37 is provided with'a bottles and as" the cross bars-or cams arrowsshown on'Fig. 3.

Go'ciperatmg with rester and remover. mover 1s locatedon the side of the apparatus opposite the. brushwhich operates upon the exteriors of the bottles and is near the arm; 6 which. supports the elevated end of the earn 101; This arrester and remover com-1 prises a pair of upper rails 105 and a pair. of lower rails 106. The farther rail of each"v air (refer-ring to the direction of rotation of the bottle-carriers) projects into the path of the moving bottles in position to be engaged thereby. The corresponding ends of the other rails do such an extent and provide a clearance for the bottles. The inner portions of the upper rails are conveniently supported by means of a frame 107, whichmay bracket 108 whichin'turn may by a suitable frame member 109 carried by 106 are supported from the frame 107 by means ofthe arms of a bracket 110 carriedl through the base of the of the bolt the lower rails may be 7 bya belt 111 projecting the frame 107 and threaded thereto. By adjustment adjusted vertically to accommodate them to the position of the lower ring. 37 and the length of the bottles carried thereby. The rails 105, 106 are preferably curved in the manner shown and intervals by means of additional frames 112 having the rails 105 secured to the upper ends thereof and provided with yokes 113 carried by bolts 114'which are threaded into the bases of the frames 112-and are adjustable in the same manner as The rails 106 are spacedapart a sufficient distance to receive the'neck portions ofthe bottles and the rails 105 are spaced a sufficient distance to receive the bodies of the bottles therebetween.

To assist in retaining the bottles in vertic'al position on the rails of the remover,

one of the rails 105 will be provided with a suitable number of spring fingers 115 extending inwardly and forwardly (or toward the direction of travel of the bottles) there from, said springs being covered with rubber 1 segmental gear gage the gears or pinions 53 attached to the bottle bottom clamps and thus rotate the bottlesinja direction the reverse of that imv ttlly shown at I a isuch pivoted end, which spring provides the cam surface pro vided by the parts 103, 104 is the bottle ar- This arrester andre-i :water is supplied to through the ports 123.

not project inwardly tobe carried by a be supported ring 124. The inner portions of the rails l flanges 130 carried are supported at suitable the yoke 110.

dles are rapidly :or similar material to prevent injury to the bottles Cooperating with the exterior brush is a 116 which is adapted to enparted to the brush. For the purpose of cushioning the impact of the pinions against this-gear, the end 117 of the segmental gear which the bottles are approaching is pivotconnected to the body .of the gear, as 118, anda spring-119 is applied to means yieldingly holding such end in operative relation to the pinions of the approachingbottle clamps.

Cooperating with the bottle. remover is themeans for automatically cutting o are temporarily-in operative relation to such remover. This means is shown in Figs. 2,

'10 and 11, andco-mprises a segmental valve 120mounted within the rotating hub 121 which-contains the chamber 122from which the flexible tubes- 73 This segmental valve 120 may be conveniently carried below a packing ring 124 interposed between the hub 121 and the sleeve 9, the valve being held to its seat against theinner surface of the hub by means of springs 125 engaging the beveled ends of the segmental-plate and lugs 126 projecting downwardly from the In operation, the shaft 7 rotated'from E the V supply of water to the brush spindles which 1 foo thepulley 11 andgits rotation is imparted.

to the rings 32, 37- and 42through theshafts 14, 19, pinion 21, pinion 127 mounted on the base 1, and thegear 12 8 having the hub 121.

This gear is supported by means of the rollers 129 mounted between the annular by the base. To keep the rollers separated, their pins orshafts are mounted inannular steel bands 131 mounted within the flanges 130. The rotary motion of the gear 128 is transmitted through the rods 68 to the spindle carriers 67 and the ring 42, and the motion of the latter ring is transmitted through the sleeve 32 and 37.

27 to the bottle-carrying rings just beyond The operator stands at a point or to the left of the bottle remover and in and .57 while the former clamps are held ele- 'vated by the cam 101. ers 50 ride off this cam,

serts the bottles between the clamps 51 As soon as the rollthe clamps 51 are brought into engagement with'the bottoms of the bottles by gravity. The brush spinrotated by the of'their pinions 65 with the gear teeth44, and the brushes are reciprocated within the bottles by the action of the cam 71 on the engagement rollers 70, water being supplied to the hollow spindles by the flexible pipes 7 3; When the clamps 51 reach the segmental gear 116, the bottles are rapidly rotated and the exteriors of the bottles are brushed, the bottles being rotated in a direction the reverse of. that in which the brush is driven. At about the time the bottles and their clamps reach the cam 101 the supply of water to their flexible tube 73 is automatically cut off by the valve 121. The clamps 51 are elevated by the cam 101, the bottles are successively engaged by the inwardly-projecting ends of the rails 105-106 and are deflected outwardly between and along said rails by the cam- like members 103, 104.

During the operation of the machine, the brushes are withdrawn into the sleeves 60 at least whenthey are in the vicinity of the bottle remover and remain in such sleeves for a considerable period of time. These sleeves, being formed with the necks of the pinions 65, are driven at the same rate of speed as the spindles and hence the brushes are protected against wear by friction by rotation within said sleeves.

Should occasion occur for adjusting the machine to accommodate diflerent lengths of bottles, such adjustment is assured through the adjustability of the ring 37 on the sleeve 7 and the telescopic connection between the sleeves 55 and 60, and this adjustability does not interfere with the operation'of the bottleremover, as the lower rails 106 may be adjusted correspondingly. The water discharged from the bottles flows into the pan 45 and is in turn discharged from the latter by the drain pipe 46.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1 In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination of a carrier, means for rotating the same, an endless brush having a concave surface located in the path of travel of said carrier and of the bottles thereon, means for driving said brush, and means for automatically rotating the bottles on the carrier so as to cause their surfaces to move in the same direction as the portion of the exterior brush adjacent thereto ,during the entire time of their treatment thereby.

2. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination of a bottle carrier, means for driving thesame, an endless brush having a surfacepresented toward said carrier,- means for driving said brush, :gears whereby the bottles on said carriermay be rotated, and a segmental gear adjacent to said brush and arranged to engage the bottle-rotating gears.

3. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the com- ;bination of a bottle carrier, means for driving the same, an endless brush having a surface presented toward the carrier, means for drivingsaid brush, gears whereby bottles on the carrier may be rotated,,and a seg- ;mental gear located adjacent to said brush and having a yielding end portion adapted to engage the bottle-rotating gears.

1. In a bottle Washing apparatus, the combination of a bottle carrier, means for driving the same, a brush located in operative relation to the carrier and arranged to operate on the exteriors of the bottles carried thereby, gears whereby bottles on the carrier may be rotated, a gear located adjacent to the brush and arranged to engage the bottle-rotating gears, and means whereby the engagement between the bottle-rotating gears and the latter gear may be cushioned.

5. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination of a carrier, means for rotating the same, a flexible endless brush arranged to present a concaved surface toward the carrier, a gear adjacent to said brush and having a pivoted end, a spring for said end of the gear, and gears for bottles on the carrier arranged to engage the pivoted end of the firstmentioned gear.

6. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination of a bottle carrier, means for rotating thesame and a brush for cleaning the exterior of the bottles on said carrier, said brush comprising a pair of chains, members connecting said chains, brushes carried by said members, the chains being arranged to present a concaved surface toward the bottle carrier, and means for driving said chains.

7. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination, with a circular bottle carrier having means for supporting bottles in a position parallel with its axis, and means for rotating said carrier about its axis, of an endless brush supported by the apparatus frame at thelside of said carrier, means-carfried by said frame and imparting to the po tion of said brush adjacent to said carrier a curvature substantially the same as that of said carrier, and means for driving said brush.

8. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination, with a fixed frame and a rotatable bottle carrier supported by said frame, said carrier having bottle receiving sockets, of spaced segmental tracks carried by said frame, said tracks being substantially concentric With said carrier, an endless brush having guiding portions engaging said tracks whereby it is given a curvature substantially the same as that of said carrier, and means for operating said brush.

9. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination of an upper and a lower carrier member, bottom clamps supported by one of said members and mouth clamps supported by the other of said members, means where by the distance between said members may be varied to accommodate varying lengths of bottles, hollow brush spindles, means for reciprocating the same through the clamps for the bottle mouths, the latter clamps having each a sleeve formed therewith, and sleeves telescopically fitted within the former'sleeves and surrounding the hollow spindles and driven therewith, whereby said members can be adjusted towardand from each other without uncovering said spindles.

10. In a bottle washing apparatus, the

combination, with a bottle carrier having fixed sockets in its upper part and vertically movable sockets in its lower part adapted to receive respectively the bottoms and tops of bottles whereby the same are supported in an inverted position on said carrier, of sleeves extending downwardly from below the mouths of the bottles on the carrier,

brush spindles, means for reciprocating said spindles into the bottles onthe carrier and for withdrawing the brushes from the bottles into the sleeves, a gear connected with each of said spindles for rotating the same,

i and a sleeve telescoping with said first sleeve andhaving a driving connection with one of said gears;

lfl. In a bottle washing apparatus, the combination of a bottle carrier, bottom and mouth clamps on said carrier, means for adjusting'said mouth clamps'toward and from said bottom clamps, a sleeve Xtending from 7 each mouth clamp, brush spindles, means for reciprocating said spindles through said sleeves and within the bottles supported downwardly projecting sleeve, means for V shifting said mouth clamp toward and from said bottom clamp to grip bottles therebetween, a sleeve telescoping within the former sleeve and supported at a fixed distance from said bottom support, a brush spindle, a gear having a sliding connection with said spindle, means for reciprocating said spindle through the second sleeve and through the mouth clamp, and a driving connection between such gear and the second sleeve.

13 In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination of an upper and a lower carrier ring, means for rotating the same, an upper and a lower pair of rails arranged to re ceive, respectively, the bodies and necks of bottle therebetween, said rails extending away from the apparatus and the farther rail of each pair projecting into the path of movement of the bottles, and cam members on'said carriers adapted to coiiperate with the bodies and necks of the bottles thereon to force the bottles between the rails when so engaged bythe farther rails.

14. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the

port, of a bottle mouth clamp having a combination of a carrier'- for the bottles, a recelver for bottles inoperative relation to said carner and having a track for such bottles, said receiver having means arranged to c intercept the bottles on the carrier, and yielding members projecting from the re ceiver into the path of the bottles thus iiorced tllerealong.

15. In a combination of a movable carrier, bottle bottle cleaning apparatus, the

clamps associated with said carrier, areceiver for cleaned bottles in operative relation to said carrier and having a fixed rigid deflecting arm= arranged to: intercept the bottles on the carrier, means associated with the carrier for forcing thebottlesthus intercepted into the receiver, and means operati veby the movement or the carrier for: au-

tomatically unclamp-ing the bottles when thu'sintercepted. '16. The comb-'nation, with a bottle carrier, of means for cleaning bottles in transit on said carrier, areceiver for cleaned bottles, stationary means projecting from said receiver and arranged to intercept the bottles on the carrier, and one or more cam devices for each bottle, said devices being associated with said carrier and arranged to force the intercepted bottles, by the movement of the carrier, into the receiver.

17. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination of a carrier comprising a pair of members, means whereby'one of said members may be adjusted towardand from the other, a bottle arrester and remover arranged in operative relation to the carrier and comprising a pair. of spaced members for the bottles, and means whereby one of. c

thelatter members may be adjusted toward and from the other.

18. Ina bottle cleaning apparatus, the

combination of a pair of vertically-spaced carrier members, means'whereby one of said members may be adjusted toward and from the other, a bottle arrester and remover arranged in operative relation to said carrier members, said arrester and remover comprising a pair of vertically-spaced rails, and

means whereby onepair ofrails may be adjusted toward and from the other.

19(In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the combination'of an upper and a lower carrier member, a rotary support for said members, said support being provided with an external thread and one ofsaid members having a hub provided with an internal thread whereby it may be adjusted along said rotary support, and a nut mounted on each side of said hub and threaded upon said sup port.

combination of a shaft, means for rotating the same, a sleeve journaled on said shaft, a pair of bottle-carrier members on said sleeve, said sleeve having a threaded portion and '20. In a bottle cleaning apparatus, the 5 a gear on said shaft said sleeves, said shaft one of said members having a hub provided with an internal thread engaging the thread on said sleeve, means for locking said hub in position, a brush carrier rotatable with said members, brush spindles associated with said carrier, a pinion on each spindle,

for rotating said spindles, and connections for driving said sleeve from said shaft.

21. In a bottle washing apparatus, the combination, with a fixed support and a rotatable frame, carried thereby, said frame comprising vertically spaced upper and lower members, said upper member having seats for the bottoms of inverted bottles and said lower member having vertical apertures therein, of a hollow sleeve within each aperture and communicating at its upper end with a bottle mouth clamp, means for shifting said sleeve toward and from said upper member, a second sleeve journaled in said frame and telescopically engaging said first sleeve, a pinion secured to said second sleeve, a gear carried by said support concentric with said frame and meshing with said pinion, a guide member carried by said frame below said lower member, a carrier slidable along said guide member and having a liquid passage therein a hollow shaft journaled to said carrier and projecting into being longitudinally movable relatively to said pinion but nonrotatable relatively thereto and also having its interior in communication with the liquid passage in said carrier, a brush carried by the upper end of said shaft, a cam track carried by said support and adapted to raise and lower said carrier during the rotation of said frame so as to project said brush above said sleeves and then retract it therewithin, a valve rotatable with said frame, a conduit for supplying cleansing fluid to said valve, and a fluid supply connection between said valve and said carrier.

22. In a bottle washing apparatus, the combination, with a fixed support and a rotatable frame, carried thereby, said frame comprising vertically spaced upper and lower members, said upper member having seats for the bottoms of inverted bottles and said lower member having vertical apertures therein, of a hollow sleeve within each aperture and communicating at its upper end with a bottle mouth clamp, means for shifting said sleeve toward and from said upper member, a second sleeve journaled in said frame and telescopically engaging said first sleeve, a pinion secured to said second sleeve, a gear carried by said support concentric with said frame and meshing with said pinion, a guide member carried by said frame below said lower member, a carrier slidable along said guide member and having a liquid passage therein, a hollow shaft journaled to said carrier and projecting into said sleeves, said shaft being longitudinally movable relatively to said pinion but nonrotatable relatively thereto and also having its interior in communication with the liquid passage in said carrier, a brush carried by the upper end of said shaft, a cam track carried by said support and adapted to raise and lower said carrier during the rotation of said frame so as to project said brush above said sleeves and then retract it therewithin, means for supplying cleansing fluid to said carrier during the time that the same is in elevated position, and means for removing bottles from said frame during the time that said carrier is in depressed position.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN R. GRUETTER.

Witnesses:

J. B. HULL, CHAS. H. WEIR.

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