| 摘要 |
<p>A bottle washer (10) removing bottles from a conveyor (14), rotating them about 360 degrees, and using paddles (19, 56) of extended length and a stationary guide (51) to replace the bottles on the conveyor (14). The washer may sit over the conveyor transporting the bottles. The conveyor moves the bottles between paddles which will rotate them through a circle of 360 degrees. At the very end of the arc, however, an obstructing guide rail (51) directs the bottles out of the rotational plane to avoid their colliding with the entering bottles. The paddles (19, 56) that move the bottles about the arc have extensions lying in the direction that the conveyor moves. These extensions control the motion of the bottles as they move out of their plane of rotation so that they will return to the conveyor for their subsequent transport downstream. The bottle washer, to work at greater length upon the bottles, may in fact move the bottles about two circles (22, 45) of approximately 360 degrees each. Each of the paddles moving the bottles through one of the rotations of 360 degrees connects to and move with a paddle moving the bottles through the other orbit. As the bottles complete the first rotation, the obstructing guide moves them out of the plane of the first rotation. The paddles of the second rotation make contact with them and move them around a second rotation. As they complete the second orbit, a second obstructing guide (51) moves them out of that second plane. The extensions on the paddles (56) of the second plane then direct the departing bottles onto the conveyor. During the bottles' rotation, the usual rotational valves and nozzles permit the desired operations of washing and cleaning.</p> |
