US1225653A - Bottle-washing machine. - Google Patents

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T. 1. LAMPE. BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE. APPLICATION man MAR. 9. 1914.

Patented May 8,1917.

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T. J. LAMPE.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9. 1914.

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TADEUSZ JAN LAMPE, 0F WARSAW, RUSSIA.

BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1917.

Application filed March 9, 1914. Serial No. 823,514.

To (/71 air/"tom it 'may/ 00711301'72 Be it known that I, TADEUSZ JAN LAMPE, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at Warsaw, Russia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-fashing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottle-washing machines, in which the bottles have imparted to them a longitudinal as well as a rotatory motion.

A primary object of this invention is to provide an improved machine for soaking and rinsing bottles, provision being made for isolating the bottles from one another, and the danger of breaking the bottles being obviated. Further, the bottles are adequately guided by the pressure which is imparted to the middle part of the bottle by a spirally formed actuating means so as to facilitate movement of the bottles longitudinally of the apparatus.

To these ends, the invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts described hereinafter and pointed out in the claims.

One embodiment of the invention and a modification thereof are represented by way of example in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a cross-section through one form of my improved machine taken on the line AA in Fig. 2 as seen in the direction of the arrow,

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the line BB in Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a similar horizontal section of a modified form of the machine.

Referring to the drawings, according to the invention a compartment bounded by siX walls is formed for each bottle. For this purpose a drum 5 is keyed on a shaft 8 which is journaled in bearings 1 of a container or receptacle 2 filled with the rinsing liquid, and can be rotated by a driving pulley 4. This drum comprises a perforated casing 6 carrying a number of radial boards or vanes 6 of wood or sheet-metal rigidly connected by any means such as angle irons (one only of which is shown and designated 7) with the casing 6" mounted on the rims 8 of two wheels 9 secured to keys 10 on the shaft 8. The bearing 1 carries a second drum 12 which likewise comprises a perforated casing 13 and a number of radial boards or vanes 13 suitably connected together by means of arms 14 and preferably by rings 15, 16. The number of boards 13 corresponds to that of the boards 6 of the drum 5, the boards 13 lying radially in line with the boards 6 the arrangement being such that when the drums 5 and 12 rotate simultaneously and synchronously each compartment 17 is alined or registers with a corresponding compartment 18. Between the drums 5 and 12 is a fixedly mounted worm 20 preferably made of flat iron. The ends of the worm are rigidly connected by angle irons 21 or the like to the fixed bearings 1.

The drum 12 is prevented from shifting axially by rings 28, and in order to rotate it synchronously with the drum 5 the ring or rim 16 is preferably provided with teeth 22 which mesh with a pinion 23 which is driven by means of the gear wheel 24 on the shaft 25 of the sprocket-wheel 26 by the sprocket-wheel 27 rigidly mounted on the shaft 3. As the speed of the drums is not great the bottles can be readily inserted durrotation and preferably just above the end 29 of the worm (Fig. 1) through apertures in the casing 13 into the compartments 17, 18, so that said bottles take up the position as indicated at 31 and shown in Fig. 1. Each bottle is then located on the one hand between two pairs of walls or boards 13 and 6 and on the other hand between two threads of the worm 20, so that it is located in a separate compartment consisting of siX walls and is completely isolated from the adjacent bottles so that fracture of the bottles is rendered practically impossible. Further, as the bottom of each bottle bears against the casing 13 of the drum and as the latter participates in the rotary movement, the forward movement of the bottles takes place with a minimum expenditure of power; also, owing to the action of the pressure on the middle part of the bottle provision is made for the best possible forward movement, and, lastly, when the bottle arrives at the end of the apparatus it is readily ejected from the container, so that removal by hand is unnecessary. The dirty liquid can be removed from the container through an outlet 30.

Referring now to Fig. 3, this form of my improved machine comprises a drum which possesses no perforated casing and is only formed by longitudinally and radially disposed boardsor vanes 32 connected together by rings 33. This drum is rota- 7 with reference to Figs. 1 and 2, the shaft 7 tably mounted on the bearings 3a of a stationary cylindrical container 47 and is driven'by a sprocket-wheel 86 and gear wheels 37 one of which meshes with the toothed rim 88 f the drum. In contradistinction to the; machine described above 89 is mounted fixedly in "the bearings 34:

and carries near one end a wheel 40, on

which a worm 41 of U-section is mounted;

This worm maybe supported nearer the other end of the container by another wheel 4:2. A second worm 4L3, likewise 'of U-section but somewhat broader than thefirst V the container and falls out clean through an aperture 46 provided below the hori zontal plane passing. through the axis of the drum. In this form of machine each bottle is also inserted into a compartment formed by six walls, and provision is made for the most suitable forward movement of the bottles. 1

I claim: or

1. In a bottle washing machine, the; combination of a liquid holding receptacle, a shaft mounted therein, inner and outer revoluble members mounted on said shaft, each of said members being provided with spaced bottle engaging elements, spirally formed means intermediate thespaced revoluble members and relatively stationary with respect thereto, said spiral means being adapted to engage the bottles and to cause movement thereof longitudinally of the receptacle upon actuation of the revoluble means aforesaid. I

2. In a bottle-washing machine the combination of a cylindrical trough, adapted to be filled with a cleansing liquid, a shaft rotatably mounted therein, two cylinders rotatably arranged within'the trough, the one cylinder lying within the other andbeing provided with external axially extend- 111g and radially disposed vanes, the outer cylinder being provided with 1nternal axially extending and radially disposed vanes lying in radial line with the vanes of the r inner cylinder, a stationary worm between the two sets of vanes, and means adapted to rotate the two cylinders correspondingly Y and with the same velocity.

3. In a bottle-washing machine che ombination of a cylindrical trough, adapted to be filled with a cleansing liquid, a shaft rotatably mounted therein, two cylinders, the onetbeingrotatably mounted on the said shaft, the other being rotatably mount- 7 ed on projecting hubs of the said trough,

the cylinders lying one within the other,

the inner cylinder being provided withex- 'ternal axially extending and radially disthe two cylinders correspondingly and'with 'the same velocity.

4. In bottle-washing machine, the com- 3 bination of a cylindrical trough, adapted to be filled with cleansing liquid,.a shaft rotatably 'mounted therein, two cylinders, the one being rotatably mounted on, the said shaft, the other being rotatably mounted on projecting hubs of the said trough,

the cylinders lying one within the other, the inner cylinder beingprovided with ex; tern'al axially extending and radially disposed vanes, the outer cylinder being provided with internal axially extending and radially disposedvanes lying in radial line with the vanes of the inner cylinder, a stationary Worm between the two sets of vanes, the worm being fixed to the said hubs of the said casing, and meansradapted to rotate the two cylinders correspondingly with the same velocity, the inner cylinder being driven by directly rotating the shaft,'and the outer being provided with teeth engaged by a member positively connected with the driving means actuating the, said shaft. 7 r

In testimony whereof I aflix my'signature" in presence of two witnesses. 7

TADEUSZ J AN. L'AMPE,

- \Vitnesses:

' ALFRED HYMDES,

THOMAS MILES.

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