US2140589A - Bottle washing apparatus - Google Patents

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E. LANNMARK BOTTLE WASHING APPARATUS Dec.20, 1938.

Filed April 29, 1937 5- illlllllll. lllk Illlllrlllllll Sve n Erik Lav-m m ark INVENITQIE.

Patented Dec. 20, 1933 U I TED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application April 29, 1937, Serial No. 139,656

In Sweden September 20, 1935' 4 Claims. (01. 198-131) The present invention relates to improvements in bottle washing apparatus of the kind provided g with a number of receptacles attached to conveyer chains or the like and serving to receive a line of bottles. The said receptacles are adapted to cooperate with squirting means for cleansing liquid and'are quite open at one end to enable the insertion and the removal of the bottles. The

, invention consists substantially therein that each 1 "receptacle is, divided into cells by means of trans- 'versal partitions. At the other end of each cell 1 -:there are provided plates placed on edge and spaced in relation to each other, said plates being parallel with each other at the mouth of the cell 15 andfastenedin such a manner as to guide the -bottles',when the same are being inserted, and tosupport the mouths of the bottles during the 2 cleansing.

V The. accompanying drawing illustrates a conj 20 structional form of the invention.

, Figure 1 shows the device, in front view, provided with three cells. i Figure shows the same device, viewed from the under side.

25 Figure3 is a cross section of one of the cells.

The drawing, by wayof example, illustrates a receptacle divided into three cells. The receptacle is formed by two side plates I, 2, which are suitably spaced andbent inwards at their lower 40 bottles'in and remove the same from the cells.

Those .ends of the cells, which in the drawing 'arefshown to be the lower ends, consist of a number, of thin plates or lamellae I placed on edge and 1 atsome distance from each other in such a man- 45 .ner that they serve to guide the'bottles when the latter are being inserted, and also to support the mouths of. the bottles during the -cleansing operation. .The said plates or lamellae I, which at the mouths of the cells are parallel-with each other,

50 are interconnected by means of rivets 8 with distancespieces between the plates 1, the said rivets holding the side plates l, 2 together. The inner po'rtionsof the plates or lamellae are attached "to the partitions 3. Those edges of the plates 5 5 or the lamellae i, which are turned WWQ QS the interiorof the cell, converge from the partitions 3 outwards in such a manner that the bottles are centered, when they contact the said inner edges during the inserting operation, see Figure 1. The inner portions of the two outermost plates or lamellae l are bent outwards from the adjacent plate or lamellae, see Figure 3, so as to facilitate the centering of the bottle during the inserting operation and so as to prevent the neck of the bottle from getting between one of the outermost 10 plates 1 and the adjacent side plate I or 2. As will be seen from Figures 1 and 2 the plates or lamellae I, in the constructional form shown, are arranged in groups in such a manner that between two such groups there is formed an opening 9 for the mouth of the bottle, the said opening being located in the centre of the end of the cell.

On account of the said arrangement of the plates or lamellae I the cleansing liquid from the shower device 6 for washing the outsides of the bottles will pass through the cells practically without impediment, thereby removing remainders of labels or the like on the outsides of the bottles, by which a better cleansing is obtained.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. As an element of a bottle washing machine,

a receptacle for bottles to be washed, said receptacle comprising a cell open at one end thereof for receiving a single bottle, and a grill provided at the other end of the cell, said grill consisting of a plurality of upright plates arranged in spaced relationshipwith their outer edges parallel to one another and being cut out obliquely to form a substantially conical recess in said grill for centering and supporting the mouth of the bottle.

2. A receptacle, as claimed in claim 1, in which the two outermost plates have inner portions flared sidewardly towards the cell walls.

3. As an element of a bottle washing machine,

a receptacle for the bottles to be washed, said receptacle comprising a cell open at one end thereof for receiving a single bottle, and a grill provided at the other end of said cell, said grill being composed of two groups of upright spaced group, the two plate groups of each cell forming a grill with a central, substantially circular open-' ing therein, each plate having'its greatest height corresponding substantially to that of the inclined wall portion adjacent the wall of the cell and being cut away obliquely'towards said central opening. v

SVEN ERIK LAN NMARK.

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