Abstract: A spraying device for use in a bottle cleaning machine is disclosed having a conveyor chain which is movable through the cleaning machine. A plurality of bottle receiving receptacles are supported from the chain and the bottles to be cleaned are carried in the receptacles. A plurality of spray tubes having a nozzle for directing the spray in a fixed direction with respect to the tube are mounted for pivotal movement so that the spray from each tube is directed through a predetermined spraying zone into a bottle as the conveyor chain moves through the cleaning machine and as the spray tubes are pivoted through a spraying zone. The spray tubes are aligned in series so that the spray from each tube is directed into one of the bottles and so that the axes of the sprays from the different tubes are parallel, and coupling means connect each of the spray tubes with each other so that they pivot through the zone together.

Abstract: A process of dyeing hanks and apparatus suitable for the process employs a longitudinally movable belt with longitudinally extending, transversely spaced support positions to carry a transversely arranged hank. A stream of highly fluid dye liquor is directed through nozzles onto the hank and soaks the hank locally. The dye is fixed, preferably by steaming, without disturbing the hanks after the permeation with dye liquor.

Abstract: A spraying device for a bottle cleaning machine in which bottles are conveyed in inverted position. The spraying device reciprocates in the machine beneath the bottles and includes upwardly directed nozzles that follow respective bottles in succession for a predetermined distance. A cam drive is provided for the device with a guide return. The frame for the spraying device is supported and guided in the machine on antifriction elements. The antifriction elements may include balls rollingly supported by channels in the machine and rollingly engaged by the frame of the spraying device.

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning containers such as bottles for reuse in which the bottles are placed in carriers for movement along a horizontally directed path comprising means operably supporting the carriers for concurrent movement in a vertical path, and jets of cleaning fluid which follow a generally horizontal path and move from a starting position aligned with the bottles while the carriers with the bottles are in a vertically lowered position and return to the starting position while the carriers move the bottles upwardly in the vertical path. The apparatus includes means to coordinate the motions set out above and means to assure proper alignment of jets and bottles.

Abstract: A reciprocating crossfire set of rinsing means rinses the surface of a glass sheet while maintaining a uniform thickness of rinsing medium in an area on the glass surface where a subsequent spraying operation is to be carried out. The rinsing means are angled obliquely downward, rearward and outward, and rinse water or other medium is supplied at a rate sufficient to force excess rinsing medium off the side and the trailing edge of the sheet, rather than being delivered into the spray area or accumulated along its trailing edge portion. The uniform thickness of rinsing medium prepares the substrate for receiving a more uniform transparent metal-boron coating in the spraying operation that follows.