Bottle washer with multiple size carrier
AssigneeWest Corporation
InventorFrank Beswick
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Abstract
Apparatus for washing bottles, in which a transfer conveyor define an endless loop belt between an inlet end and outlet end. A plurality of cups are carried along the endless loop. An inlet elevator adjacent the inlet end supplies a quantity of bottles in an open end down orientation to the cups. Fluid injectors are movably mounted on the conveyor to position a nozzle into each open end down oriented bottle to supply fluid to inside of the bottles. An outlet elevator is adjacent outlet end for removing bottles from the apparatus in an open end up orientation.
Claims4
An apparatus for washing bottles comprising a washer housing having an inlet and a discharge end;
- means for transferring bottles through the washer housing including a plurality of bottle holders arranged in at least two sets of different fixed configurations, one set of bottle holders for like-sized bottles of a predetermined first size and the other set of bottle holders for like-sized bottles of a second size different than said first size;
- means for intermittently actuating the bottle holders to deliver bottles received at the inlet end to the discharge end;
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- means for selectively feeding the different sized bottles to the different sets of fixed bottle holders, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.