US920564A - Bottle-soaking machine. - Google Patents

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S. L. GOLDMAN.

BOTTLE SOAKING MACHINE. APPLIOATIOWIILLED FEB. 4, 190a.

'Patented May 4, 1909.

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SIGMUND L. GOLDMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AsSIGNOR TO E. GOLDMAN & 00., INCL, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

' BOTTLE-SOAKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1909.

Application filed February 4, 1908. Serial No. 414,183.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIGMUND L. GOLDMAN, a citizenof the United States, residing at Chicago, in the c-ountyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Soaking Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the class of a paratus for soaking bottles to remove their fabels and cleanse them externally and internally with the soaking water, and involving, as the generally stated construction, a water-holding tank containing a vertically-traveling endless carrier onwhich takingplace at the opposite are supported receptacles for holding the bottles, the apparatus ,being adapted to be loaded at one side thereof and 1the discharge SIL e.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the apparatus by a view in side elevation; Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the same in central cross-sectional elevation; Fig. 3, a

plan View of the driving worm-gear, but omitting the worm-wheels; Fig. 4, a section on line A, Fig. 3, showing the worm-wheels Fig. 5, a broken plan View of one of the similar bottle-crates; Fig. 6, a broken face-view of the same; Fig. 7, a broken section on line B, Fig. 5, and Fig. 8, a section on line C, Fig. 5; Figs. 9, 10, lLand 12 are diagrammatic views, each presenting an end of a bottlecrate, the figures successively showing. the I crate 1n the position of approaching the gateopening cam, of engaging the cam to open the spring-closed gate, of traveling along the carn-plate to maintain the gate open, and of clearing the upper end of the cam-plate to permit closure of the gate; Fig. .13, a broken enlarged section on line D, Fig. 1, showing the preferred construction of agitator for the water in the soaker-tank on line E, Fig. 13; Fig. 15, asection on line F, Fig. 16, through the bottle receiving and rinsing trough and the adjustable guidechute which leads thereto from the soaker;

Fig. 16, a broken section of the same taken on line G, Fig. 1 or Fig. 1.5, and Fig. 17, a dia grammatic view in perspective showing in unassernbled relation the bottle chute and the means provided for adjusting its proximity, its height and its angle of inclination relative to the soaker-tank.

- The soaker-tank 18 is represented in rectangular shape and as having on one end an overflow 19 near the top, a covered manhole Fig.'14, a section I 20 and an emptying outlet 21 near the bottom, and a water-circulating pipe 22 communicating atits ends, respectively, with the 1 lower and upper parts of the tank and containing an ordinary jetump indicated at 23, to which leads a va ved steamsupply pipe 24 for driving the pump to circulate the water and for heating the water to maintain it at the proper temperature.

l A trough 25, for receiving the bottles discharged from the soaker and rinsing them,

, 1S stably supported to extend from the front 1 or delivery side of the tank 18 and is shown to be provided in one end with an overflow 26 and an emptying outlet 27, and to contain,

[ for the purpose hereinafter explained, an

i open or grate-like false bottom (Figs. 15 and 16) shown to be formed of rectangular supports 28 having feet secured to the bottom of the trough and affording bearings for the ends of spaced rods 29 extending between them. Similar upright rigid frame- members 30, 31, flanged on v the flanged tops of thetank-ends and afford bearings for parts hereinafter described. On

gle-bars 32 affording guides for an oil-box formed as a single castinghaving the section 33 with the section 34 extending below it at one end and at a right-angle thereto, the two sections intercommunicating. In the base of the 3 and 4) carrying on one end the worm-wheel 37 in the box-section 34, the worm onthis shaft meshing with a worm-wheel 38 on an end of a shaft 39 journaled at one end in a bearing 39" forming a part of the casting containing the oil-box members, and at its opposite-end in a similar vertically adjust: able bearing '39 (Fig. 2).

A worm-shaft 40 is journaled in hearings in the box-section angle to the shaft and mesh with the worm-wheel 37 thereon. .The shaft is the drive-shaft and carries on its outer end sprocket-wheel 42. The vertical adjustment of the shaft 39 is'for taking up slack in the endless chains, hereinafter described, and is effected at each end by suitable means shown at one end in Fig. 1 as a bolt 43 passing through the top-flange of the frame-member 30,- the opposite threaded end of the bolt working in the bearing of the shaft 39, whereby turning in'one direction or the other the upper ends, rise from the member 30 are the two similar vertical an section 33 is j ournaled a worm-shaft 35 .iFigs.

34to extend at a right-'- a. belt-pulley 4] and adjacent to the latter a the adjusting bolts will raise or lower the drive-shaft and, incidentally, the oil-box and worm-gears correspondingly.

An agitator-shaft 14 is journaled in suitable hearings on the ends of the tank (Figs. 13 and 1 t) and carries on one end a sprocketwheel having the short-chain connection 46 with the sprocket 4.2. The agitator coniprises, as its preferred construction, brackets 47 bolted at intervals to the shaft 44 to ex tend transversely thereof, with paddle-blades 48 ,extending parallel with the shaft at its opposite sides, but spaced therefrom and bolted, res ectively, to the oppositely facing surfaces 0' the brackets.

At the inner sides of the frame- members 30, 31 are secured on the shaft '39 like sprocket-wheels 49, and similar sprocket- Wheels, one of which is indicated at 50 in Fig. 1, are correspondingly provided on a shaft 51 journaled in suitable bearings on theopposite ends of the tank, the vertically alining members of each pair of these sprockets being connected by an endless chain 52. Extending at intervals between these chains, which form an endless rackcarrier, and permanently fastened to them, are the similar bottle-racks'53, the construction of which formsthe principal feature of this invention. At the front or delivery side of the machine there is secured, to extend vertically along the adjacent edge of each frame- member 30 and 31, a cam-plate 54 having its lower end deflected outwardly or forwardly at a right-angle to form a cam 54, and its upper end inclined forwardly, as shown at 54", for the purpose hereinafter explained. Other camplates 54 are provided to extend vertically along the rear edges of the frame-members at the loading side of the machine and are like the camplates on the opposite side of the machine except that the cams 54 project rearwardly and are on the upper ends of the bars and that the inclined end-sections 54 are lowermost and extend rearward 1, The construction of the ottle-rack, most clearly indicated in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive, is

the following: Between two similar headforming end-plates 55, carrying perforated ears 55 through which they are rigidly bolted to the opposite chains 52, extend, suitably spaced apart and rigidly fastened to the heads and reinforced transversely by'the rods 56, similar partitions or shelves 57, of which three are shown containing 'alining 0 'enings 58 to admit, for support on the s elves, the bodies of bottles to be soaked. At the rear side of the rack is provided the stop for the bottles, shown as a pair of par-- allel bars 59 extending between the heads 55, to which they are fastened like the shelves, these bars being reinforced by transverse rods 60 connecting them with the adjacent shelf. On the opposite or front sideof the rack is hingedly fastened at its lower corners to the heads 55, to adapt it to open in an outward direction, the gate 61 consisting of a plate like the shelves 57 except that, instead of being provided with openings 58, it has formed in it, to register with said openings, U-shapcdslots 62 extending transversely of the gate-plate from its free edge. Studs, each carrying anti-friction rollers 63 on its protruding ends, roject transversely through the free ends of arms 64 pivotally supported on the opposite rack-heads and carrying pins 65 at which they are connected by stiff coiled springs 66 to the heads 55 at pins 67 projecting therefrom and the rollers 63 on the inner ends of the studs work in rigid arch-shaped loo s 68 on opposite ends of the gate.

11 the trough 25, adjacent to the delivery side of the soaker, is supported the chute 69, the preferred construction of which is most clearly illustrated in l-igs. 15 to 17, inclusive. The outer surface of the chute is provided at intervals, to register with the gate-slots 62, with longitudinal grooves 70 of V-"shape in. cross-section, for guiding the bottles'as they are released from the soaker, in the manner hereinafter described, into the rinsing trough, of] which the chute is adjustably supported; and each guide-groove terminates at its lower end in a deflected extension 71 of the chute base for checking the momentum of the bot-' tles in discharging into' the trough. To the flanges 72 which extend from opposite sides of the trough at their upper edges are secured the bearing-clips 73 containin the vertical slots 7 4, through which pass vided on their threaded ends with wing-nuts 7 6, these bolts also passing through openings 77 in the depending sections of anglelates 78 rovided in their to -sections with on tu 1nal slots 79, exten ing parallel with ti e lateral edges of the chute, for the passage olts 75 pro I the chute may be raised and lowered on the 1 clips 7 3, owing to the slots therein, and may be tilted to any desired angle relative to the delivery from the'soaker, becauseof the openings 77 in the angle plates 78, and tightening of the nuts fastens the chute in such adjusted osition, and by loosening the nuts 81 the c lute may, owing to the provision 'of the slots 79 in the angle-plates, be moved lengthwise nearer to or farther fromthe soaker, to be fastened in such adjusted, position by tightening the nuts 81.

The machine operates as follows: With water in the tank and rinsing-trough, the circulating-pump 23 being in action and the drum-shaft 40 in motion, the shaft 44 is rotated to actuate the agitator, and the wormgears are driven to slowly turn the shaft 39,

thereby causing the endless chains 52 and with them the racks to travel in the direction indicated by the arrow on Fig. 1. In this travel the ate of each rack in succession is automatica lyopened, at the rear side of the machine, to permit the rack to be filled with bottles to be soaked, and thereupon simi-' larly closed, while the gate of another rackis being opened at the opposite or delivery side of the machine to permit the 'rack to discharge its'load of soaked bottles tothe chute 69, whereupon the gate closes automatically to be again opened to admit a fresh load of bottles to be soaked when the rack'reaches.

theloadingpositioa These operations are effected by engagement with the cam-plates of the rollers 63. Thus, when a rack attains,

at the delivery-side of the machine, the posi-' tion of that represented in Fig. orelative to the cam-plates 54, its gate is about to be opened.- The opening'begins when the rack attains the position represented in Fig. 10, wherein the rollers 63 enga e the earns 54*, whereby in the continued. travel of the chains 52 the rollers are arrested relative to such travel, and thestoppage causes their engagement with the cams, under their confinement in the loops 68, against which they bear, to open the gate against the resistance of the springs 66. The first openin of the gate takes place when the base of-t e rack has been brought adjacent to the receivingend of the chute, toward which the gate, when 0 en, inclines downwardly to afford a bridge eading to the chute. The bottles in the rack, thus freed from the'retention exerted against their shoulder-portions by the mar ins of the gate-slots, through which latter t e bottle-necks protrude, slide out of it,

across the bridging gate and down the guides 1 of the chute, at the ends of which their momentum is" checked or cushioned by the chute ends 71, which direct the bottles, (one of which is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2) horizontally to float upon the surface of the water in the trough 25. The depth of the water to the false bottom in the trough is less than the length of a bottle, so that the bottle, in filling with the rinsing-water, cannot sink in upright position entirely below the Water-surface, but will assume, after floating for a time, an inclined position with .-one end resting on the false bottom and the other end projecting above the water-level, where it is accessible for withdrawalby the attendant without requiring immersion of his hand into the water to grasp it, thereby facilitating the withdrawing operation. Any label or foreign matterthat separates from bottles in the rinsing-trough will drop through the interstices in the false bottom and lodge on-the bottom of the trough, whence it may be readily removed when the trough is emptied of water through the o )cning 27. In the continued travel of the rac it clears bottles.

the inner rounded ends of the cams 54, in attaining the position represented in Fig. 1.1 of riding the rollers along the straight backs of the cam-plates, which maintain the gate .open until, in attaining the position re resented of therack in Fig. 12, the re lers reach the inclined upper ends 54 of the camplates 54, in riding along which the recoil force of the springs 66 is permitted to act to close the gate on its pivotal ends or hinges, thecomplete closure taking place'after the rollers havecfleared theextremities of the ends 54 and have thus become entirely free from tho cam-plates to permit the remnant of recoil-force of the springs to snap the gate shut, this condition being shown in the dotted representation in Fig. 12. When the rollers 63 on a rack-gate encounter the cams on tie upper ends of the rearcam-plates 54,

and clear the lower-inclined ends of the rearcam-plates, the gate will be gradually closed by the recoil ofits controlling s ringsto-com fine the bottles'while beingl'soa ed and until they are released, as described, atthe delivery-side of the machine.

- The slow travel of the chains 52, under the motion of the worm-gear, retains the bottles in the tank sufficiently long for'thoroughly soaking them and removin from them most, if not all, of the labels, an the action of the water is materially enhanced b the agitator, the relatively fast speed ofwhich throws the water more or less forcibly against the bottles in theracks, which, as will be observed, are open to permit the free circulation of the water through them for its full access to the It should be mentioned in this connection that the racks occupy-positions on the endless carrier in which they extend at an angle of about thirty-two degrees, and the bottles enter the soaking-water at a pitch with the necks extending upwardly, whereby they become filled with the water, while they emerge from the water with the necks extending downwardly and discharge their contained water before-arriving at the point of delivery.

Among the more important distinguishing any part of the machine or of the crates i of hot themselves to accommodate bottles of difi'ercnt sizes. Moreover, the construction of crate adapts it to hold the bottles loosely whereby they are free to reciprocate longitudinally in their bearings between the stop :39 and gate under the action of the currents .in the soaking-water produced by the agitator, and this movement of the bottles supplements the cleaning action upon them of the water.

I Vhat I claim as new. and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In combination, a bottle-soaking-machine having a \i-ater-tank and a traveling carrier therein, with bottle-racks on the carrier, each comprising end-heads with a plurality of spaced partitions extending longitudinally between them and containing rows s-openings alining in series transversely of the rack, a spring closed door hinged to the base otthe front side of the rack, a stop for the bottle-bottoms on the rear side of the rack, means for automaticall opening said door asthe racks attain the de ivery point on the machine, a rinsingtrough supported at the delivery side of the machine, and a bottle-chute leading from said side to the trough and toward the reeeiving end of which the opened door of the chine having a water tank and a traveling carrier therein, with bottle racks on the carrier, each comprising end-heads with a pluralit' of spaced partitions extending longitudina 1y between them and containing rows' of bottle-openings alining in series transversely of the rack, a door on the front side of the rack containing bottle-neck openings coinciding with said alining series of openings,'means forautomatically opening said doorsas the racks attain the delivery point on the machine, a rinsing trough supported at the delivery side of said machine, and a bottle-chute leading from said side to the trough and toward the receiving end of which the opened door of the rack attaining said point extends as a bridge.

3. In combination, a bottle-soaking machine having a water tank and a travelingcarrier therein, with bottle racks on the carrier each comprising end-heads with spaced shelves exten ling longitudinally between them containing alining openings for supporting the bottles at different points along their body portion, a stop on the rear side of the rack, a spring closed door hinged at the front side of the rack and containing slots for the bottle-necks alining with said openings and extending in the door from its free edge, means for automatically opening said door as the racks attain the delivery point on the machine, a rinsing trough supported at the delivery side of the machine, and a bottle-chute leading from said side to the trough and toward the receiving end of which the opened door of the rack attaining said point extends as a bridge.

4. In a bottle-soaking machine, a bottle rack supported to travel therein and comprising end-heads with spaced shelves 6X- tending between them containing alining openings for supporting the bottles, a stopbar extending between the heads at the rear side of the rack, a gate at thelront side of the rack hinged at its ends to said heads near their bases and containing slots for the bottle-necks alining with said openings, .loops on the ends of the gate, arms pivotally supported onJhe gate-ends and carrying antifriction rollers extending through said loops, springs connecting said arms to the rackends, and cams. in the paths of said rollers for opening the gate against the resistance of said s rings.

' v 5. n a bottle-soaking machine, the combination with a water-tank having a frame on its top, of sprockets journaled on said frame and in the tank to form vertically alining members, endless chains connecting said members, a drive-shaft geared to said sprockets, and bottle-racks extending at intervals between and permanently connected with said chains, each rack being open to the free circulation through it of the soaking-water and. having a spring-closed gate containing slots for the bottle-necks hinged upon it to open in the direction contrary to that of the travel of the rack and form a bridge when open, confined anti-friction rollers exten'ylin from the gate-ends, and camlates onesaic frame in the paths of said ro lers and each having a cam on one end and an outwardly inclined opposite end.

6. In combination, abottle-soaking machine having a water-tank and an endless traveling carrier therein, with bottle-racks on the carrier each having a bottle-confining spring-closed door hinged at the base of the rack and containing slots for the bottlenecks, means for automatically opening said doors as the racks attain the delivery-point on the machine, a rinsing-trough supported at the delivery-side of said machine, and a bottle-chute leading from said side to the trough and toward the receiving-end of which the opened door of the rack attaining said point extends as a bridge.

SIGMUND L. GOLDMAN.

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