US480135A - Elvin kaidline - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

E. RAIDLINE.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

Patented Aug. 2, 1892.

W/TNESSES A 77'0HNEYS PATENT OFFICE.

ELVIN RAIDLINE, OF BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,135, dated August 2, 1892.

Application filed November 4, 1891. Serial 110,410,865. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELVIN RAIDLINE, a eiti zen of the United States, residing at Bethlehem,in the countyof Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-WVashing Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accom panying drawings.

This invention relates to an improved machine for washing bottles and similar articles; and it has for its objects to provide a device of simple construction whereby said articles may be Washed and rinsed with great rapidity and with the expenditure of a minimum of power.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the outer end of one of the brush-shafts, showing the brush in position. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of my device. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the outer end of a brush- 1shaft, and Fig. 5 is a plan View of a modifica- In the present construction I mount on a suitable base a the main standards or bearings b b, which support the main driving-shaft c. On this shaft,between the bearings,I mount a water-wheel d of any suitable construction, the said wheel being inclosed by a suitable casing e to prevent the water splashing over the mechanism. This casing is secured to the base a and is provided on its upper side with the pipe 6' for supplying water to the wheel. The base a under the wheel is cut away for the reception of the lower portion of the wheel and to permit the passage of the waste water into a trough that may belocated beneath the said plate. This trough is used as a receptacle for unwashed bottles, permitting them to soak previous to placing them upon the washing-brushes.

Secured on the extended end of the drivingshaft is the large beveled gear-wheel f, which meshes with a smaller beveled gear-wheel g, secured on the inner end of the main horizontal brush-carrying shaft h, which is mounted in bearings h h on the base a. On this brush-carrying shaft h is mounted the beveled gear-wheel h which meshes with similarlybeveled gear-wheels i and j, mounted on the inner ends of horizontal brush-carrying shafts 2" and which extend at right angles to the shaft h and are mounted in bearings 11" and j, secured to or formed integral with the base-plate.

In the outer ends of the brush-carrying shafts are formed the sockets 7.0,in which the tubes Z are adjustably secured by means of the set-screws in, tapped in the sockets. In these tubes Z are formed a series of threaded perforations, through which the set-screws m pass, the inner ends of the screws bearing against the stem of the brushes n, inserted in said tubes, thereby adj ustably securing them therein.

The reduced outer ends of the brush-carrying shafts are provided with buffersp, of rubber orany other suitable material, to prevent the mouth of the bottle becoming injured by coming in contact with the end of the shaft. These buffers are tapered toward their outer ends, so that said ends may enter the mouths of the bottles and their inner ends bear against shoulders 19, formed on the shafts. An annular enlargement or flange qon the reduced outer ends of these shafts fit in recesses or grooves formed in the buffers and retain them in place. It will thus be seen that I provide a double adjustment of the brushes. The tubes Z maybe adjusted in the sockets It to bring the brushes out or in in order to set them in the required position over the watertroughs, and the brushes may be adjusted in the tubes Z in order to fit bottles of diiferent lengths.

Instead of arranging the brushes at right angles to each other, as shown in Fig. 3, I may arrange them at oblique angles, as shown in Fig. 4, in order to bring them closer together, so that one man may wash two bottles at a time.

If desired, I may provide separate watertroughs for each brush and supply them with water from the pit or trough under the wheel 61; or I maysupply one or more of said troughs with hot water, if desired.

The advantages and operation of my device will be fully understood and appreciated from the foregoing when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. ater maybe supplied from a hydrant or anyotherconvenient source of supply, and the number and size of brushes may be varied at pleasure, and, as is evident, the arrangement of said brushes may be changed Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

The speed of the brushes may be varied at pleasure by changing the relative size of the gearsf and g, as is evident, and also by regulating the speed of the motor.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a bottle-Washing machine, the combination of a shaft having a socket formed in its end, a tube Z, fitted to slide in the socket, said tube having a series of threaded perforations formed in it, a brush having its stein fitted to slide in said tube, and a set-screw m, tapped through the socket on the shaft and entering one of the perforations in the sliding tube and bearing on the stem of the brush,

whereby the tube and brush may be adjusted independently of each other and independentlyof the socket and beheld rigidly against longitudinal movement in any of their adjusted positions, substantially as described.

2. In a bottle-washing machine, the combination of the brush-carrying shaft, said shaft having a reduced outerend, an annular shoulder or collar on said reduced end, the brush carried by the said shaft, and suitable driving mechanism, and an elastic buffer tapered toward its outer end and sprung over the aunular shoulder or collar on the reduced outer end of the brush-carrying shaft, substantially as described.

I11 testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELVIN RAIDLINE.

\Vitnesses:

J. FRANK JOHNSTON, \VILLIAM H. FLY.

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