US929464A - Dipping device for bottles or jars. - Google Patents

Description

B. W. MOGINN'IS.

DIPPING DEVICE POR BOTTLES 0B. JARS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30, 1908.

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BERT w. MGGiNNIs',

WICHITA, KANsAs'.

DIPPING- DEVICE FOR BOTTLES OR JARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, 1909.

Application filed September 30, 1908. Serial No. 455,434.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERT W. MGGINNIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of ltif'icliita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented a new and improved VDipping Device for Bottles or Jars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. j

This invention relates to dipping devices such as are used for holding bottles or milk j ars when they are being dipped to sterilize or scald them.

The object of the invention is to produce a device of very simple construction, which can be operated in a simple manner to hold a number of bottles in a convenient manner to enable them to be dipped in a vessel having a scalding or sterilizing bath.

'lhc inventioi'i consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specilication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the ligures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device; Fig. 2 is a plan or upper edge view, in this View certain parts are broken away and shown in cross section, this view also shows the device in the relation which the parts assume when the bottles or jars are to be inserted; Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the opposite side from that shown in Fig. 1, and showing the device in an inverted position; and Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the parts of the device in the relation which they assume when the bottles or jars are locked against removal.

Referring more particularly to the parts, the body of the device is formed of two plates or boards 1 and 2, which are of the same size and superposed one above the other, as indicated. The plate 1 is provided at its ends with rigid guide bars or guide straps 3 of metal, which enable the plate 2 to slide freely longitudinally of the face of the plate 1. On its outer side the plate 1 is provided with transverse cleats 4, the purpose of which will appear more fully hereinafter. The plates 1 and 2 are provided with series of openings 6 and 5 respectively, which may register exactly with each other, as indicated in Fig. 1, or which may be drawn slightly out of alinement with each other, as

shown in Fig. 3. This is accomplished by sliding kone of the plates on the other. For this purpose l provide a lever 7 which is pivotally mounted on a stud 8 on the upper yedge of the lplate 1. This lever is a bell c 11. The arm 9 of the bell crank lever is re- `the openings and 6 are in alinement with each other. lVith the device in this'position, it may be set upon a table with the cleats 4 disposed on the under side, and resting upon the surface of the table. The bottles .or jars are then inserted in the openings from above, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 4. After the openings have all been filled with bottles, the lever 7 is thrown over to the position in which it is shown in Fig. 4. This slides the plate 2 upon the plate 1, and the plate 1 then engages the necks of the bottles under the lips thereof and holds them securely against withdrawal. The upper edge of the plate 2 is rovided .with a suitable handle 14 which can be held when the device is being immersed with the bottles which it holds in a sterilizing or scalding bath. After the bottles have been dipped, the device may be set upon a table or shelf so as to enable the bottles to drain.

In the practical construction of the device, the links and arm 9 are arranged in such a way that the pivot connection 15 between them will pass beyond the line joining` the pins 8 and 11; in this way the device jams or locks the slides relatively to each other. After bottles are drained, the device with `bottles can be inserted over a delivery case and by unlocking the lever the bottles will drop into the case.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-

1. A dipping device for bottles and jars, comprising a pair of horizontally elongated plates, means for guiding one of said plates upon the other, a handle attached to one of of openings adapted to register and Which may be thrown ont of register,- and means for locking said plates with respect to each other with said openings slightly ont of register` to hold the necks of the bottles and jars inserted in said openings.

2. A dipping' device for bottles and jars, comprising a horizontally elongated plate having a plurality of openings formed therethrough, a sliding member adapted to reduce the area through said openings and adapted to engage the necks of bottles or jars inserted therethrough, and a handle attached at the edge of said plate and aording means for holding the same normally in a substantially vertical plane. A

3. A dippingde'vice for bottles and jars, comprising a horizontally elongated plate having a plurality of openings formed therethrough, a sliding member adapted to reduce the area through' said openings and adapted to engage the necks of bottles or jars inserted therethrough, a handle attached at the edge of said plate and affording means for holding the same normally in a substantially vertical plane, and members attached to the side of said plate and adapted to projectbeyond the months of said bottles or jars and affording means for Y supporting said plate in a substantially horizontalV position, said members being attached on the side opposite to which the necks of said bottles or jars are inserted in said openings.

et; A dipping device for bottles and jars, comprising a late having guides, a second 'plate meente' en said first. plate and movable in said guides, said plates having openings adaptedto register and adapted to be thrown out of register When' said plates slide one Upon the other, means for actuating said plates, and means for holding said plates `with said openings in register o'r out of register. l

5; A dipping device for bott-les and jars, comprising a plate having guides, a se'c'o'nd plate mounted on said first plate and movable in said guides, said plates having 'openings adapted to register and adapted to be thrown out of register When said plates slide one upon the other, means for actdating said plates, means for holding said plates With sa'id openings in register or ont of register, and a handle attached to the edge of one of said plates.

n testimony tvhereof I have signed r'ny name to thisspecilication in the presence of tivo" s'nbs'c'ribing Witnesses. y Y

' BERT 7. MCGINNIS. Titnessesz OE L; JACQUES,- G; E. ARETT.

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