Bottle feeding apparatus for washer

Claim 1

IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING BOTTLES TO BOTTLE WASHING EQUIPMENT, BOTTLE CONVEYOR MEANS TRANSPORTING BOTTLES IN CLOSE JUXTAPOSITION SINGLE FILE ALIGNMENT, BOTTLE SPACING MECHANISM HAVING A GATE WHEEL SEPARATING SAID BOTTLES FROM THEIR CLOSE JUXATPOSITION INTO SAPCED APART RELATIONSHIP ON SAID CONVEYOR MEANS, AND MEANS FOR MAINTAINING SAID BOTTLES IN SUCH SPACED APART RELATIONSHIP WHILE IN MOVEMENT UPON SAID CONVEYOR MEANS, SAID MAINTAINING MEANS COMPRISING AN ENDLESS SERIES OF UNIFORMLY SPACED APART FINGER UNITS OPERABLE IN CONJUNCTION AND IN REGISTRATION WITH THE PROJECTIONS OF SAID GATE WHEEL, SAID CONVEYOR MEANS TRANSPORTING SAID BOTTLES TO AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH SAID SPACING MECHANISM, MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY TRANSLATING A PREDETERMINED PLURALITY OF SAID SPACED APART BOTTLES LATERALLY FROM SAID CONVEYOR MEANS AND ONTO SAID WASHING EQUIPMENTS, SAID TRANSLATING MEANS COMPRISING A BOTTLE PUSHER BAR NORMALLY DISPOSED IN WITHDRAWN POSITION ADJACENT SAID BOTTLE CONVEYOR MEANS, A MOVABLE GATE NORMALLY DISPOSED IN ELEVATED POSITION ADJACENT SAID CONVEYOR MEANS AS A GUIDE FOR SAID BOTTLES WHEN TRAVELING ON SAID CONVEYOR MEANS, AND MEANS FOR LOWERING SAID GATE BELOW THE PLANE OF SAID BOTTLES TO PERMIT LATERAL TRANSLATION OF SAID PREDETERMINED PLURALITY OF BOTTLES FROM SAID CONVEYOR MEANS UPON CONTACT AND MOVEMENT BY SAID PUSHER BAR AND FOR ELEVATING SAID GATE INTO NORMAL BOTTLE GUIDING POSITION UPON RETRACTION OF SAID PUSHER BAR INTO NORMAL WITHDRAWN POSITION, POWER MEANS FOR OPERATING SAID BOTTLE CONVEYOR MEANS. SAID BOTTLES SPACING MECHANISM, AND SAID BOTTLE TRANSLATING MEANS, AND BOTTLE CONTACT RESPONSIVE MEANS ON SAID CONVEYOR MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID POWER MEANS TO OPERATE SAID BOTTLE SPACING MECHANISM.