US737355A - Bottle-cleaning machine. - Google Patents

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PATENTED AUG. 25, 1903.

A. P. GRAMER. BOTTLE CLEANING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

I WVEWTOR PATENTED AUG. 25, 1903;"

A. F. ORAMER. BOTTLE CLEANING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24, 1903.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 N0 MODEL.

WIT ESSE'S Patented August 25, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

ANTHONY F. ORAuER, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO FRITZ GOEBEL, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

BOTTLE-CLEANING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,355, dated August 25, 1903.

Application filed February 24,1903.' Serial No. 144,588. (No model.) i

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTHONY F. ORAMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of WVayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle-CleansingMachines; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the in vent ion such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to bottle-cleansing machines, and has for its Object an improved machine adapted to receive and carry bottles that are to be cleansed through a tank c011- taining a cleansing solution and from thence to a rinsing-tank, into which the bottles are automatically dropped.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation lengthwise the machine. Fig. 2 is a detail showing in perspective a rack of bottlepockets. Fig. 3 is a detail showing a single bottle in a single pocket. The pocket is made with longitudinal strips. Fig. 4: is a detail of a link of the sprocket-chain by which the bottle-racks are driven. Fig. 5 is a plan view. Fig. 6 is a plan view showing the lock employed to hold the bottles in the pockets. Fig. '7 is a detail plan showing the means for automatically releasing or removing the look.

A indicates a tank intended to hold the cleansing solution-generally an alkali solution.

Bindicates atank intended to hold the rinsing liquid; The tanks are mounted 011 a frame, and across the frame are shafts 1, 2, 3, and 4. On shaft 1 is a pair of sprocketwheels 11 and 12. On shaft 2 is a pair of sprocket-wheels 21 and .22. These sprocketwheels dip into the tank A, and the under parts of them are submerged in the solution in the tank to a depth sufficient to fully submerge the bottle-pockets on cross-bars connecting the sprocket-chains hereinafter mentioned. Across the tank A and above it is a shaft 4 on frame-pieces 5 and 6, and around the wheels 41 and 42 the sprocket-chains are carried and lifted in order that the chains and the receptacle-carrying bars carried by the chains may be lifted and carried over the tank-wall h. Across the rinsing-tank extends a shaft 3, on which are sprocket-wheels 31 and 32, around which the sprocket-chains pass, and thence the sprocket-chains pass over wheels 71 and 72 on shaft 7 back to the wheels 11 and 12.

The entire system of chains is driven from any convenient source of power belted to wheel 13 on shaft 1. Across from the sprocketchain which runs on the wheels on one side of the tanks to the sprocket-chain that runs on the wheels at the opposite side of the tank at intervals extend receptacle-carrying bars, a detail of one of which is shown in Fig. 2. Each bar 14 is provided with a number of holes and carries a number of receptacles or pockets, preferably of metal. The pockets are made to allow free access Of liquid to the interior of them, and for this purpose their Walls are foraminous, as shown in Fig. 2, or they are made of strips of metal, as shown in the pocket 5 of Fig. 3. Each pocket is slightly larger than the bottle which is to be cleansed, and the hole through the bar 14 constitutes the mouth of the pocket. To the bar leis slidingly secured a lock-bar 15, provided with side branches, one branch for each pocket, and with spaces between consecutive branches, so that when the lock-bar slides to bring the space between the branches to register with the mouth of the pocket the bottle may be inserted or withdrawn therefrom.

The 1ock-bar 15 slides under staples 16 and is provided with a protruding end-17, which engages with a cam on the side of the tank. The cam 18 at the side of the tank is arranged to slide the lock-bar and causes the several branches to take positions over the pocketopenings and assume the position shown in Fig. 2 and at the right of Fig. 6.

The receptacle-carrying bar is arranged on the chain to present the small end of the pocket toward the axle of the wheel and to bring the bottle-mouth upward as it passes through the tank A from the wheels on the shaft 1 to and around the wheels on the shaft 2, during which part of the travel the bottle is retained in the pocket and is submerged under the cleansing liquid. After the chain passes around the wheels onthe shaft 2 it iscarried back part way across the tank A, with the bottle-mouth now downward, and the bottles empty and drain into the tank A. They are next carried forward to and around the wheels on the shaft 3; but the chain after it passes the tank end 6 passes a cam 19, which contacts the lock bar 17 and pushes the branches thereof to open the pockets, and the bottles drop from the pockets into the rinsing-tank B, after which the unloaded chain passes around the wheels on shaft 3 and back over the Wheels on shaft 7 in a condition to receive a fresh load of bottles, which is inserted at any time during the travel of the chains and bars from the wheels on the shaft 7 to the wheels on shaft 1.

What I claim is 1. In a bottle-cleansing machine, in combination with a carrier and means for actuating the carrier, a bottle-carrying pocket on said carrier, a bottle-retainer movable across the mouth of said pocket, at substantially right angles, to the axes thereof, and means for actuating said retainer, substantially as described.

2. In a bottle-cleansing machine, in combination with a tank, a carrier, a receptacle for bottles on said carrier, a bottle-retaining 7 mechanism slidably movable across the mouth of said receptacle, and means for automatic! foraminous receptacle for bottles, a carrier arranged to carry the receptacle submerged and in an upright position, means for reversing the receptacle and emptying the-bottles contained therein, a bottle-retaining device slidably movable across the mouth of said receptacle, and means for actuating the retaining device, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

ANTHONY F. ORAMER.

Witnesses:

NETTIE V. BELLEs, CHARLES F. BURTON.

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