US1093068A - Bottle-washing machine. - Google Patents

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I. G. NIELSEN.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE. :APPLIOATIOR FILED mm: 23,1913.

Patentq d Apr. 14,1914.

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I. G. NIELSEN.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

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BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

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BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, IVER C. NIELSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at thicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottleashing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a bottlewashing machine, embodying certain new and useful improvements over any machine now upon the market, the machine being of that type in which a liquid or fluid is injected into the interior of each bottle, and in which, also, a rotating brush forced inside of each bottle, thus to cleanse the same.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation of the machine; Fig. 2 is a side elevation looking toward the left Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a detailed sectional view showing the mounting of the injecting spindles; Fig. at is a detailed view showing a part of the rinsing devices; Fig. 5 is a detailed view in elevation, of one end of the rotating spider upon which the bottle-receiving receptacles are supported, together with the cam for controlling the angle of inclination of said bottle-receiving receptacles; Fig. 6 is a detailed view showing part of the mechanism for intermittently rotating the spider; Fig. 7 is a section on the line BB, (Fig. 6) the bottle-holders appearing in elevation; Fig. 8 is a section on the line A-A, Fig. 5; and Fig. 9 is a section on the line DD, Fig. 1.

T he bottles 1, which are to be cleaned by the machine, are each received within a bottle-receiving receptacle 2, which receptacles are shaped so as to conform to the shape of the mouths of the bottles. The cup-like receptacles 2 are arranged upon the rotating spider in circumferential and longitudinal rows. in the drawings and simply by way of example, there are six circumferential rows (Fig. 2) and 28 longitudinal rows, but obviously these numbers may be varied at will.

The spider which supports the cup-shaped receptacles 2, is formed by two annular disks 3, one such disk being at each end of the machine. Extending from one disk to the other are plates-4-, which plates are provided with perforations (not shown) through which the mouths of the bottles are Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 23, 1913.

Patented Apr. 14, 1914. Serial No. 775,244.

adapted to project (Figs. 5, 7, 8). At each end of each plate 4: is an angle bracket 5 (Fig. 8), and a pin or shaft 6, extending through a perforation in the annular member 3. Each shaft 6 carries a crank 7 bearing roller 8, which rollers are adapted to travel in the groove or slot of the channel iron 9 (Figs. 1 and 5), which member 9 is suitably bent so as to serve as a cam and which is secured in any suitable manner to the framework 10 of the machine and which is fixed against rotary movement. The annular members 3 and the straps or plates 4 which are pivoted thereto, together constitute the rotary spider upon which the bottlereceiving cups 2 are retained. Said spider is not mounted upon a central shaft nor provided with spokes, but the weight of the entire spider instead is carried upon the pulleys or wheels 11, there being two such wheels at each end of the machine, upon which the annular members 3 rest. The pulleys 11 may be grooved as at 12, and the bands 3 received within the grooves, thus to prevent longitudinal movement of the spider. The pulleys 11 are carried upon shaft-s 13 which are secured to the framework 10. By means hereinafter more par ticularly described, the spider is driven with an intermittent rotary movement, its path of travel being indicated by the arrows (Figs. 5 and 6) and the wei ht of the spider and of the bottles thereupon is borne by the wheels 11 alone.

Because of the fact that the bottle-receiving receptacles 2 are pivotally mounted upon the spider, said receptacles are permitted to rock back and forth within certain predetermined limits, and this is one of the most important features of novelty of the machine. If the bottle-receiving receptacles 2 were fixed upon the spider, the bottles would always be disposed radially, but because of the fact that the cups 2 are pivotally mounted, the bottles are adapted from time to time to'be held vertically, and not necessarily radially. The rocking motion of the cups 2 and of the plates 4 is caused by the rollers 8 riding in that part of the cam-slot 9 shown in Fig. 5. )Vhen a roller 8 is within that part of the cam designated 13 in Fig. 5, the bottles will be held radially, but as any particular roller traverses those sections of the cam designated 14, 15, and 16, the particular strap 4% controlled by any given roller 8 is rocked to vertical position (Figs. land 5). The cam-slot is shown as being so arranged that three longitudinal rows of bottles are held vertically at the same time. The particular bottle at the left of the line A..-l (Fig. 5) is radially disposed, but when said bottle has passed the line A-A, it will be vertically disposed and will so remain until it reaches the position indicated for the second bottle from the right (Fig. 5).

The pipes or tubes 17, of which there are three longitudinal rows, are adapted to be presented to the bottles and to move toward or away from the bottles. Said pipes or tubes are supported by a vertically-reciprocating frame and hence the tubes of each row move in unison and in the paths of travel all parallel to each other. If there were only one row of tubes 17, said row could be disposed radially of the spider, and could be moved toward or away from the bottles when the bottles happened to register with the tubes, but, as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, only one row of tubes 17 is radially disposed, the other rows being parallel to the middle or radial row, and the object of rocking the bottles so that three rows at a time are disposed vertically, is to cause said rows to be in axial alinement and registration with the vertical tubes 17. The cam 9 or that part thereof shown in Fig. 5 rocks the bottles in the three rows at the top of the machine and causes all of the bottles in the top three rows to assume and remain in vertical position. The tubes or pipes 17 are adapted to inject fluid or liquid into the bottles which respectively register with those tubes, and in a machine constructed according to the showing of the drawings, each bottle is presented successively to three tubes. The tubes may all inject the same solution, or each tube may inject a different solution. More specifically, of those bottles shown in Fig. 1, the lefthand bottle of the three vertical bottles will first be presented to the left-hand tube 17 and will remain so presented long enough to enable said tube 17 to perform its part of the cleansing process. By means hereinafter described, the spider which carries the bottles is rotated 1/28 of a revolution, which carries the left-hand vertical bottle to the position indicated for the center vertical bottle, and the bottle in that position is adapted to be presented to the middle tube 17. A second partial revolution of p the spider carries the middle vertical bottle to the position of the third vertical bottle and in registration with the right-hand tube 17, and the cam-slot 9 is so arranged as to hold said three bottles vertical during all the time that the bottles are above the tubes 17 Another partial revolution of the spider, however, will carry the right-hand vertical bottle to a point beyond the tubes 17, in

which position the bottle will again be radially disposed, as shown for the second bottle from the right, Fig, '5.

As just stated, the tubes 17 are adapted to move vertically toward or away from the bottles. Each tube 17 is slotted at 18 and is retained within the water jacket 19, which water jacket is adapted to rise and fall, together with the tubes 17. The tubes are rotatable within the acket and suitable glands 20 and 21 prevent leakage of the fluid. A flexible pipe 22 enters the water jacket and supplies water under pressure, which water passes into the tubes throughthe slots 18 and thence upwardly where it is injected into the bottles. At its top each tube carries a cup 24 adapted to receive and guide .themouth of the bottle, which cup may be made of soft rubber or the like, so as to prevent chipping of the glass. Within each tube 17 is a brush, not shown, which brush will project into the mouth of the bottle and be'rotated within the bottle at the same time that the water isbeing injected therethrough. Beneath each cup 24 is a spring 25 which allows the machine to adjust itself to minor irregularities, which spring is held between the cup 2% and the frame 26.

Secured to the framework 10 are the posts 28 which support the curved plate 28, the object of which is to limit the upward movement of the bottles. The plate may be adjusted as in the full line position (Fig. 1) for short bottles and raised to the dotted line position for the tall bottles, and said plate serves to hold those bottles which are vertically disposed in position and tightly seated against the cups 24.

To the water-jacket 19 the pin 29 is fastened; a crank 30 pivoted at 31, is connected by a link 32 to the water-jacket 19.

At 33 the crank 30 is pivoted to the pitman 3 1 and as the pitman is operated the crank 30 is adapted to move from the full line position, Fig. 1, to the dotted line position and thus elevate the water-jacket 19 and all of the tubes 17 causing the upper ends of said tubes to engage the bottles which are then vertically disposed.

In order to secure the rotation of the tubes 17, each tube carries a worm gear 35 and each gear 35 meshes with and is driven by a worm 36, the worms 36 being carried upon a shaft 37. At one end of shaft 37 there is a pulley 38, over which the belt 39 passes, which belt 39 is driven from a shaft 40. In this Way the continuously rotatingshaft 40 produces continuous rotation of the tubes 17. Near their upper ends the tubes 17 and the mechanism for driving same are supported by the plates 42 which'are fixed to the machine, The water-jacket 17 and plates 26 p are connected together by rods 43 so that the water-jacket and the plates 26 rise and fall 1n unison.

The machine is constructed so that the spider which carries the bottles receives an intermittent rotary movement and at each such motion the machine must advance 1/28 of a complete revolution. It will be noted that Fig. 5 is a view taken near the upper right-hand corner of Fig. and that Fig. 6 is taken near the lower left-hand corner of Fig. 2, for the cam-slot 9 is required at only one end of the machine. At the lefthand end of the machine, Fig. 2, the pivots (3 do not carry the cranks 7 but are provided merely with rollers 4st. The arm i5 is adapted to reciprocate longitudinally (Fig. 6) and to said arm 15 at 47 the pawl 48 is pivoted, which pawl has the beveled edge &9, and carries the counterweighted end 50. As the arm 45 moves from the dotted line position to the full line position (Fig. 6), being guided by the brackets 51, the edge 52 of the pawl engages a roller 44 and thus rotates the spider for a distance corresponding to the length of travel of said arm 45. When the arm 1-5 moves from left to right, however, the beveled face 4.9 will ride upon the next or adjoining rollers 44., and the pawl will be tripped upon its pivot 47, but when same has passed the roller 44:, the pawl will drop to dotted line position where its edge 52 will engage the second roller 44:. In thismanner the necessary intermittent rotary movement is communicated to the spider. The spider will, obviously, remain at rest during the time that the bar 4L5 is traveling from left to right, but the spider will rotate when the bar is moving from right to left.

In order to reciprocate the bar to the same is pivoted at 53 to the link 5a, which link is pivoted at 55 to the framework 10; said link carries a pin or stud 56, which cooperates with a wheel 57 carried at one end of the main shaft 58. Said wheel 57 bears the heart cam 59 by which the pin 56 is guided. When the parts are in the position of Fig. 1, the heart cam 59 will have forced the rocking link 54 to the position indicated in full. lines in Fig. 1 and in dotted lines in Fig. 6, but as the shaft 58 continues to rotate, the arm 54 and bar 45 will be moved from right to left in both of said figures. The main driving shaft 58 is driven continuously by the sprocket-wheel 60, over which the chain (31 is adapted to travel, and in this manner the continuous rotation of the shaft 58 is translated into intermittent longitudinal movement of the bar 45 and into intermittent rotary movement of the bottle carrying spider.

The tubes 17 must be elevated and pre sented to the bottles while the spider is at rest. It will be obvious from preceding description, that when the pitman 34: descends, the tubes 17 will he raised. At its lower end (Fig. 1) the pitman as is pivoted at 63 to the worm gear 64:, which worm gear meshes with and is driven by the worm 65 carried upon the shaft 66 (Figs. 1 and 9). The shaft 6'? which is connected to the shaft 4L0 by the miter gears 68 and 69, rotates contained within a casing 72. The shaft 10 is c driven by a belt passing over the pulley 7 3. hen the parts are as shown in Fig. 9, the shafts 66 and 6? will be disconnected from each other, but when the head TO moves in the direction of the arrow (Fig. 9) the clutch will cause said shafts G6 and 67 to rotate in unison. The head 70 is connected to a yoke 74: pivoted at 75 and a link 7 6 pivoted at 77 to the member 54:, moves the yoke 74.- toward the right or toward the left in accordance with the movements of said pivoted arm 54:. l Vhen the parts are in the full line )osition (Fig. 1) or the dotted line position (Fig. 6) the clutch will be unlocked and the shaft 66 will remain idle, the tubes 17 being at that time in lowermost position; but when the bar 45 has been moved toward the left, (Fig. 6) and when it reaches the end of its travel, the clutch will be locked, the shaft 66 will rotate, the worm gear 6 L will be driven, and in this manner the tubes 17 will be elevated and then depressed. The shafts 66 and 67 will remain locked together during the greater part of the time required by the cam-bearing wheel 57 to make a rotation, which length of time will be suflicient for the vertical bottles to he presented to the tubes 17 long enough to effect a cleansing of the bottles. It will he only for that relatively short space of time that the toe or tip T9 of the heart-cam is engaging the pin 50 that the clutch will be unlocked.

On the left side of Fig. 1, the soaking tank 80 is shown. This tank supports the endless chains 81, which chains carry the bottle receiving pockets 82, the chains being driven from the same shaft 83 that drives the sprocket chain 61. The endless chains 81, therefore, move at a rate of speed corresponding to the rate of travel of the bottlecarrying spider. The bottles within the tank 80 are selected or grasped by the pockets 82 and are moved upwardly in the direction of the arrow (Fig. 1) the mouth of the bottle riding along the wall of the tank 80.

At 84: the wall 85 is perforated and when any bottle comes opposite the perforation 84, the bottle will drop by gravity through said perforation and will seat itself in that particular cup 2 which is then presented to the perforation 80.

The size of the driving parts and their arrangement is such that the length of time required to advance any bottle from one position to the next is the same length of time required to advance the lowermost pocket 82 to the position of the second pocket, and so on; hence, each time that a cup 2 comes opposite to the opening S t, a bottle from the soaking tank will have been raised to said opening and will drop therethrough and into the cup 2 which is waiting to receive the bottle.

After the right-hand row of vertical bottles has passed to the position where they are again radially disposed, it is desirable to rinse the bottles and this is done by the pipe 86 which carries the jets 87, which serve to spray the mouths of bottles. As the bottles continue to rotate with the spider, they are carried downward through the upper right-hand quadrant (Fig. 1) and drop off the spider after passing beyond the guides 89, as shown at the right side (Fig. 1). The bottle shown in dotted lines on the right (Fig. 1) has been completely cleansed and is then ready for filling.

The operation of the machine is as follows: Assuming that the parts are in full line position (Fig. 1) and that the shafts etO, 58, and 67 are rotating, the bar will be advanced toward the left, thus advancing the spider one step. lVhen the parts reach the full line position (Fig. 6) the clutch will be locked and the shaft 66 thus caused to rotate and the rotation of this shaft will be translated by worm 65, pitman 34, and crank 30 into vertical reciprocation of the tubes 17 which are thus presented to the vertical bottles, thus to cleanse the same. The shaft (36 will remain in motion so that the tubes 17 are either rising or falling during about 9/10 of a complete revolution of the camwheel 57, during which time the devices for rotating the spider remain at rest, but once during each complete revolution of the camwheel 57, the bar 45 will be reciprocated and the spider advanced. and during this reciprocation of the bar 45, the shaft 66 and all parts driven thereby remain at rest.

The drawings show and the specification describes one specific embodiment of the invention, but it should be understood that any changes in the details of construction and arrangement of parts. may be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. A bottle-washing machine, comprising a rotatable spider, means for rotating the same. a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential rows of bottlc-holders each longitudinal row being pivotally mounted upon said spider, bottle washing means adapted to be presented to said bottle holders and means for causing the topmost rows of bottles to stand parallel each to the other.

A bottle-holder comprising a rotatable spider, a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential rows of bottle-holders, each longitudinal row being pivotally mounted upon said spider, a crank in connection with each of said longitudinal rows, a cam adapted to cooperate with said cranks and thereby cause said bottle-holders to rock upon their pivots, said cam being adapted to rock a plurality of rows so that all of thebottles of said rows are parallel to each other, bottlewashing means adapted to be presented to said bottle holders and means to advance the spider.

A bottle-holder comprising a spider, a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential'rows of bottle-holders, each longitudinal row being pivotally mounted upon said spider, a crank in connection with each of said longitudinal rows, a cam adapted to cooperate with said cranks and thereby cause said bottle-holders to rock upon their pivots, said cam being adapted to rocka plurality of rows so that all of the bottles of said rows are parallel to each other, a plurality of bottle-washing tubes adapted to be presented to those bottles which are parallel to each other, means to reciprocate said tubes toward or away from the bottles to which same are to be presented, and means, to advance the spider.

4. A bottle-holder comprising a spider, a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential rows of bottle-holders, each longitudinal row being pivotally mounted upon said spider, a crank in connection with each of said longitudinal rows, a cam adapted to cooperate with said cranks and thereby cause said bottle-holders to rock upon theirpivots, said cam being adapted to rock a plurality of rows so that all of the bottles of said rows are parallel to each other, a movable frame, a plurality of bottlewashing tubes carried thereby and movable therewith, means to reciprocate said frame and said tubes toward or away from the bottles to which said tubes are to be presented, and means to advance the spider.

A bottle-holder comprising a spider, a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential rows of bottle-holders, each longitudinal row being pivotally mounted upon said spider, a crank in connection with each of said longitudinal rows, a camadapted to coope ate with said cranks and thereby cause said bottle-holders to rock upon their pivots, said cam being adapted to rock a plurality of rows so that all of the bottles of said rows are parallel to each other, a movable frame, a plurality of bottle-washing tubes :arried thereby and movable therewith. means to reciprocate said frame and said tubes toward or away from the bottles to which said tubes are to be presented, means to rotate said tubes, and means to advance the spider.

6. A bottle-holder comprising a spider, a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential rows of bottle-holders, each longitudinal row being pivotally mounted upon said spider a crank in connection with each of said longitudinal rows, a cam adapted to cooperate with said cranks and thereby cause said bottle-holders to rock upon their pivots, said cam being adapted to rock a plurality of rows so that all of the bottles of said rows are parallel to each other, a movable frame, a plurality of bottle-washing tubes carried thereby and movable therewith, means to reciprocate said frame and said tubes toward or away from the bottles to which said tubes are to be presented, means to rotate said tubes, and means to advance the spider, said framework embodying a fluid tank with which said rotating tubes are in connection.

7. A bottle-holder comprising a spider, a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential rows of bottle-holders, each longitudinal row being pivo-tally mounted upon said spider, a crank in connection with each of said longitudinal rows, a cam adapted to cooperate with said cranks and thereby cause said bottle-holders torock upon their ivots, said cam being adapted to rock a plurality of rows so that all of the bottles of said rows are parallel to each other, a plurality of hottle-washing tubes disposed substantially parallel to each other, means to move said tubes toward or away from the bottles to which same are to be presented, a rotating shaft, and means intermediate said shaft and said spider adapted to translate the rotation of said shaft into intermittent rotation of said spider.

8. A bottle-washinging machine comprising a spider, a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential rows of bottles, bottle-holders carried thereon, a plurality of bottlewashing tubes adapted to be presented to the bottles retained in said holders, said tubes being substantially parallel to each other, means for moving those bottles opposite said tubes so that said bottles, too, are parallel to each other, means intermediate said shaft and said tubes adapted to translate the rotation of said shaft into longitudinal reciprocation of said tubes, and means intermediate said shaft and said spider adapted to translate the rotation of said shaft into intermittent rotation of said spider.

9. A bottle-washing machine comprising a spider, a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential rows of bottle-holders pivotally carried thereon, a plurality of bottle-washing tubes adapted to be presented to the bottles retained in said. holders, said tubes being substantially parallel to each other, means for moving those bottles opposite said tubes so that said bottles, too, are parallel to each other, a shaft, means intermediate said shaft and said tubes adapted to translate the rotation of said shaft into longitudinal reciprocation of said tubes, and means intermediate said shaft and said spider adapted to translate the rotation of said shaft into intermittent rotation of said spider, said tubeactuating means and said spider-actuating means being adapted to operate successively but not simultaneously.

10. A bottle-washing machine comprising a spider formed of a pair of circular members, and a plurality of straps in pivotal relation to said circular members, bottle-holding cups secured upon said straps, and means for rocking said straps upon their pivots, said means being adapted to cause a plurality of said straps to lie in planes parallel to each other.

11. A bottle-holder comprising a spider formed of a pair of circular members, and a plurality of cup-holding supports in pivotal relation to said circular members, means for causing said supports to rock upon their pivots, a movable frame, a plurality of tubes carried thereby and movable therewith, means to reciprocate said frame and said tubes and move same toward or away from those supports which have been rocked upon their pivots, and means intermittingly to rotate the spider.

12. A bottleholder comprising a spider formed of a pair of circular members, and a plurality of cup-holding supports in pivotal relation to said circular members, a cam adapted to cooperate with said cup-holding supports, thereby to rock the same upon their pivots, a movable frame, a plurality of bottle-washing tubes carried thereby and movable therewith, means to reciprocate said frame and said tubes and move same toward or away from those supports which have been actuated by the cam, and means intermittingly to rotate the spider.

13. A bottle-washing machine comprising a spider, a plurality of longitudinal and circumferential rows of bottle-holders carried thereupon, a plurality of bottle-washing tubes adapted to be presented to the bottles retained in said holders, means for rocking certain of said bottle-holders upon their pivots, the number of bottle-holders which are so rocked at any one time corresponding to the number of tubes, a shaft, means intermediate said shaft and said tubes, adapted to translate the rotation of said shaft, into longitudinal reciprocation of said tubes, means to advance the spider, and means ac tuated by the spider-actuating means adapted to release the connection between the tube-actuating means and the shaft.

14. A bottle-washing machine comprising a rotatable spider, means for rotating the same, a plurality of longitudinal and a plurality of circumferential rows of bottleholders pivotally mounted thereupon, bottle-washing means adapted to be presented to said bottle-holders, a crank in connection with each longitudinal row, and a cam having one bend near the top on one side of the spider, said cranks being adapted to cooperate with and be actuated by said cam.

15. A bottle-washing machine comprising a rotatable spider, means for rotating the same, a plurality of longitudinal and a plurality of circumferential rows of bottle-holders pivotally mounted thereupon, bottlewashing means adapted to be presented to said bottle-holders, a cam disposed perpendicularly to the axis of the spider, and hav:

the axis, and means adapted to cooperate with and be actuated by said cam, said means being adapted to actuate said bottle-holders. In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my signature in the presence of two witnesses. IVER O. NIELSEN. Vitnesses I GEORGE A. MASTERS, R0131. KLoTz.

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