BOTTLE CLEANING AND WASHING INSTALLATION Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: food industry; distilleries and breweries. SUBSTANCE: installation has chamber for moistening the labels with charging conveyor installed in chamber, and perforated manifold connected with means to deliver steam. Perforated manifold is installed under row of parallel working conveyors and has perforations in upper section limited by planes connecting the ends of straight-line sections of carrying runs of working conveyors with axle of manifold. Device has labels evacuation chamber with driven auger furnished with brushes placed in interturn space and row of spring-loaded closed belts mounted in parallel to auger to impact rotary motion of bottles; device has also supporting-and-directing plate installed under bottles and connected with vibrator, showering manifold to wash off labels, and hopper for collecting the labels communicating with vacuum pump. EFFECT: enhanced quality of washing and cleaning the bottles. 5 dwg