Apparatus and method for holding down bottles in a high pressure wash

摘要

A machine for washing bottles has a conveyor which advances intermittently from station to station. The conveyor has a carriage extending transversely thereof formed to receive at least one inverted bottle. Full cone spray nozzles located above and below the bottles as they pass along the conveyor spray warmed detergent solution on the exteriors of the bottles at each station. High pressure or solid stream jet nozzles at each stage project a jet of water from below into the inverted open mouth of each bottle at the stage to thoroughly clean the interior of each bottle. To counterbalance the forces of the jets below, which tend to lift the bottles off the conveyor, a jet of fluid from above impacts the inverted bottom of each bottle.