High speed bottle washing machine
US5441063A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 13, 1993 |
| Grant date | Aug 15, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 13, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB08B9/34
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A high-speed bottle washing machine provides concurrent rotational motion to a workpiece as it is conveyed through a washing treatment zone for internal and external spray treatments. The machine comprises a plurality of moving bottle receiving stations for sequentially receiving and rotating inverted bottles received from a bottle infeed conveyor, a plurality of reciprocating spray nozzles, with at least one spray nozzle moving with each bottle receiving station, wherein each of the spray nozzles reciprocates from a first position below the inverted bottles, to a second position within the bottles, and a manifold assembly for sequentially supplying a caustic wash fluid under pressure to each of the plurality of spray nozzles to clean the bottles by impingement of the wash fluid in a predetermined pattern within the bottles as the bottles are rotated. The washed bottles are finally discharged at a bottle outfeed conveyor.
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