2. How an in-line rinser works

In-line machines were originally designed as small bottle washers. By retaining the "baskets or cells" needed in bottle washers to house the containers to be treated, a paperclip circuit was proposed which would cap the bottle to be rinsed, positioned on a single-line conveyor with a basket, turning it upside down by raising it and sliding it on a guide. Then, at the top of the machine, on this circuit, injections and drips are performed, followed by the return of the bottle at the machine outlet onto another single-line conveyor feeding the filler.

Next came hydraulically or mechanically powered push-type rinsers which, after the bottles have been placed in touch-touch position, are pushed into a wire (or machined plastic) scroller (figure 1 ),...