US881575A - Apparatus for rinsing and airing casks. - Google Patents

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I No. 881,575. PATENTED MARQlO, 1908.

c. GULKB. APPARATUS FOR msme AND AIRING GASKS.

I APPLICATION FILED MA Y 26. 1906.

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'PATENTED MAR. 10, 1908, (LGULKE. I APPARATUS FOR RINSINGAND AIRING GASKS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1906.

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neer, residing at Ohenmitz,,Germany, Fab- .tion and partly-in e UNIT D STA I GARL'GI lIiKE, OF CHEMNITZ, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MASCHINENFABRIK GERMANIA VORM.

J. S. SGHWALBE & SOHN, OF CHEMNITZ, GERMANY.

v APPARATUS FOR RINSING AND AIRING OASKS.

one. 881,575.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented March 10, 1908 Application filed may 26, 1906, Serial No. 318,965.

To all whom it may concern: Q

Beit known that I, CARL GIJ'LKE, engirikstrasse 7, l1ave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Rinse ing and 'ring' Oasks; and clare the following to be a full, clear, and

it'appertains'to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an apparatus for treating casks and, articularly for rinsing the same, first, with cold water and thereafter drying by blowing air through the same. I

The invention, as

claims, will be understood from 'an ins ec. tion of the accompanying'drawing-in w ich a preferred embodiment of the same is shown and'inwhich; I

Figure llis a view jlpartly in vertical secratus with a cask in position, Fig-2 is a p an View, and, Fig; is a horizontal section through'the centralf ortion' of the apparatus on the line A+ of Fig, 1;

Upon asuitable. foundation is arranged a circular guide rail 1,f'o'rming, the outer boundary of a water channel 2 provided with an outlet'3. To the inner wall of-the water channel is secured a girder 4 which extends diametrically across" the space in- .35' L 116L718 arra cludedwithin said inner wall. 0 this girder at a central point of the water chaned a fixed bearing'bolt 5 which serves to ho d in fixed relation to the girder, a stationary multi chambered or multiway valve plug 6, a screw 7 holding these parts in fixed position. As shown, this valve plu is provided with three ways,

25, 26-an 27 fed respectivelyby a hot wa-' ter pipe 15, a cold water pipe 16 and an air pipe 17. a

A rotary valve casing 18' surrounding the stationary valve plug .is provided with four poirts,each leading by way.of a distributing pipe 8 to. a nozzle 9 arranged centrallyof a earing on 19 upon which the cask is to be laced wit the nozzle 9 projecting into its mterior. A drain pipe 12 leads from the bearing cup 19 to a position above the circular water channel 2.

About the bearing bolt 5 upon the girder is arranged a cup 23 having an outer r1m'24 I do hereby dehot'and then with hereinafter more fully described and as particularlyset out 'in the evation of the .appa

Es PATENT orruon and an inner elevated portion 30, the latter I serving as a foot step bearing'for the rotary valve casing 18. The stationary valve plug 6 is provided with a fourth chamber 28 which drainsinto the cup 23.

A circular rack" 10 connects the several dpipes 8 near their outerex distributing ,tremities an within this rack and prefer ably beneath the distributing pi' es are ar: ranged anti-friction members suc as wheels 11 which run upon the guide rail 1 as the distributing pi es and the casks carried thereby revolve wit the, rack 10 .driven by the worm 13 on the drive shaft 14 runmn in bearing1 20 and 21, power. being supp%ied throug the. pulleys 22,: a

' The 0 eration of the device is as follows: The rac with its adjuncts being vdriven in the ,direction indicated by the arrow Xjof Fig. 3, a cask is placedupon the bearing cup i- 19'of the pipe 8 shown atthe' lower edge of ,said Fig. 3, said pipe being'at the time out of communication with the ways of the valve plug. As the apparatus revolves, the said pipe comes into communication with the plug chamber 25, and during its passage through about 100 degrees remains in com munication therewith and receives hot water fed bythe pipe '15, the water beingsprayed upon the interior of the cask by the nozzle 9 and running off through the bearing cup 19 and the. drain pi e 12. Thereafter the i e and its cask reach a position at the top of tlie figure, coming intocommunication with the plug chamber 26 supplied with cold water from the pipe 16, the water being introduced to and drained from the cask 1n the same manner as was the hot water, but during a shorter period being approximately 80 degrees of travel.- Thereafter the cask through itsdistributing pipe 8 is brought into communication with the chamber 28 and any water collected therein is drained off into the WVith the apparatus shown, four casks are treated at the same time, being placed in position and removed in succession, one being removed. While the one immediately following is draining and the other two are being treated with hot and cold water respectively.

The arrangement of the circular water channel and the central drain cup with the rotary valve casing bearing thereon and inclosing a stationary multi-way valve plug having certain of its ways or chambers communicating with the revolving distributing pipes and certain other of itschambers draining into the central cup is a construction which has every advantage from the view point of simplicity, efficiency, cheapness and compactness.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. In an apparatus for treating casks, the combinationwvith a stationary multi-chambered valve plug, of a rotary valve casing provided with ports corresponding in number to the plug chambers, distributing pipes connected with the ports, bearing cups arranged on the outer pipe ends to support the casks,

drain pipes leading from the bearing cups, I

and means to rotate the valve casing.

2. In an apparatus for treating casks, the combination, with a stationary multi-chambered valve plug, and leading pipes leading to certain of the plug chambers and a drain pipe leading from certain of the plug chambers, of a rotary valve casing provided with ports corresponding in number to the plug chambers, distributing pipes connected with the ports, bearing cups arranged on the outer pipe ends to support the caslis, drain pipes leading from the bearing cups, and means to rotate the valve casing.

3. In an apparatus for treating casis, the combination, with a circular g-uide rail, a girder bridging the space inclosed by the guide rail, a drain cup formed on the girder centrally of said space, a stationary multichambered' valve plug mounted centrally of the cup upon the girder, feeding pipes leading to certain of the plug chambers and a drain pipe leading from certain ofthe plug chambers to the drain cup, of a rotary valve casing mounted around the valve plug and centrally of the drain cup, said valve casing" provided With ports, distributing pipes connected with the ports and revolving with the valve casing, bearing cups arranged on the outer pipe ends to support caslrs, drain pipes leading from the bearing cups, a circular rack connecting the distributing pipes, and

means to drive the rack and wheels carrying the rack and traveling on the guide rail.

4. In an apparatus for treating caslrs, the combination, with a circular guide rail, a water channel hounded thereby, a girder bridging the space inclosed by the guide rail, a drain cup formed on-the girder centrally of the said space, said cup having a central elevated portion, a stationary multi-chambcred valve plug mounted centrally ol' the cup, feeding pipes leading to certain of the plug chambers and a drain pipe leading from con tain oi the plug chambers to the drain cup, of a rotary valve casing mounted around the valve plug upon the eh; ated drain cup por tion as a foot step bearing and provided with ports, distributing pipes connected with the ports and revolving with the valve easing, bearing cups arranged on the outer pipe ends to support the cas s, drain pipes leading from the bearing cups to points above the water channel, a circular rack connecting the distributing pipes, a worm to drive the racl and wheels carrying the rack and traveling on the guide rail.

In an apparatus for treating cashs, the combination, with a circular guide rail, a water channel bounded thereby, a girder bridging the space inclosed by the guide rail, a drain cup formed on the girdercentrally oi the said space, said cup having a central ele vated portion, a stationary multi chambcrcd valve plug mounted centrally of the en feeding pipes respectively for warm and co d water and air leading to three of the plug chambers and a drain pipe leading from an other of the plug chambers to the drain cup, of a rotary valve casing mounted arouml the valve' plug upon the elevated drain cup portion as a foot step bearing and provided with ports corresponding in number to the plug chambers, distribu ting pipes conneetml with the ports and revolving with the valve casing, said distributing pipes terminating in nozzles, bearing cups arranged about the outer pipe ends to support cashs with the nozzles therein, drain pipes leading from the j bearing cups-to points above the water channel, a circular rack connecting the dist-ributlng pipes to drive the rack, and wheels naring the rack and traveling on the guide rail.

In testimony whereof Iallix my signature in the presence cl two witnesses.

FREDERICK J. DEE'IZMAN, BRUNO W ALZ.

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