EP0010686A1 - Packing machine for bottles with separated feeding conveyors - Google Patents

Abstract

According to types or composition, assorted bottles (9), preferably empty bottles, are conveyed separately and inserted separately into crates (19). For this purpose a single packing machine (7, 7a) is provided which puts the seized bottles (9), in each case on a hook-like trajectory (16), into the crates (19). Each type of bottle is provided with its own bottle-accumulation table (8a to 8d). For average efficiency, in each case for two or more accumulation tables (8a to 8d) only one bottle-gripping head (18, Fig. 1), which can be called away from accumulation table to accumulation table and is horizontally movable, is provided. For greater efficiency, each accumulation table (8a to 8d) is allocated its own gripping head (18), the gripper (11) of which can be raised up to about 15 cm relative to its gripping head (Fig. 10). In this way it is not possible for bottle-accumulation tables (8b, 8c, Fig. 10) which are not yet fully occupied to hinder the immediate packing procedure for bottles (9) of fully occupied bottle-accumulation tables (8a, 8d). The crates (19) packed with uniform bottles (9) can then be palleted separately according to types and stocked until further use. <IMAGE>

Description

The invention relates to a system for the further processing of bottles sorted in sorting devices, preferably empty bottles, which are conveyed on separate conveying tracks according to bottle types or the nature of the same, to the bottles sorted by type into packing devices which insert empty bottle crates and subsequent stacking of the filled bottle crates. The large number of beverages on the market and in bottles for sale means that the bottle crates that come back to beverages are more and more often of different sizes or types. In beverage operation it is therefore necessary to precede the bottle cleaning process with an additional sorting process which can be carried out on a manually or mechanically operated sorting device

According to DE-OS 25 34 183, page 3, depending on the type of bottle or its nature, sorted bottles can be transported on conveyor lines separated by type to mechanical packing devices, where they are inserted into the empty bottle crates according to types, which are subsequently stacked and sorted according to types can be added to the usual production process at a later date. However, according to the teaching of this laid-open document, those with Fla Loaded bottle crates of different sizes or shapes during the passage through a bottle unpacking machine by the selective access of the differently designed bottle grippers of bottle gripper heads arranged one behind the other in a number of successive unpacking cycles. For each type of bottle to be selected, however, a special bottle packing head is required and each bottle crate comes to the bottle storage location of each bottle packing head one after the other and has to be re-centered and exposed to a new unpacking stroke. Such a design is complex and limited in performance, and due to the repeated centering of the bottle crates also prone to failure.

On the other hand, high-performance bottle sorting devices have already become known, e.g. in the magazine "Der Mineralbrunnen Issue 11 of Nov. 1977, page 359 or DE-GM 76 07 431 or earlier in DE-OS 15 48 285 or US-PS 32 59 240. With such known sorting machines one can sort unsorted the bottle unpacking machine select the incoming bottle stream with the highest performance in four or five different groups, so that the bottle types that are not or not exactly needed / for normal further processing are introduced into empty bottle crates manually or by individual bottle packing machines and, if necessary, are subsequently opened again Only for very low sorting capacities it is possible to manually sort out the bottle types that are not currently needed from the incoming bottle stream and either to place them on separate conveyors or to place them in the bottle crates provided by type.

At low outputs, the subsequent stacking by type can also be done manually or semi-automatically. For high bottle throughput rates, as can be achieved with the use of modern sorting machines and are common in beverage companies, a bottle packing machine and, if necessary, an associated pallet loading machine must be provided for each bottle type that is not currently required. Inevitably, the mechanical and financial outlay and the space required are very high and the degree of utilization, in particular of the bottle packing machines, is low, but a fully automatic, modern bottle treatment column cannot be operated effectively if bottles of different shape, size or nature are fed to the bottle treatment columns.

The object of the invention is to reduce the mechanical outlay associated with bottle sorting as well as the space and space requirements of such systems, and to improve their utilization at the same time, for medium and high bottle throughput rates.

To solve this problem, a system for further processing of sorted bottles of the type mentioned is proposed, which is characterized by the features specified in claim 1.

Because the discharge conveyors of the bottle sorting device are directly connected to a corresponding number of bottle stowage tables of a single bottle packing machine, only one bottle packing machine is required in each case. The gripping function of the bottle gripper head is switched on or off by the bottle gripper head or its support frame for the bottles The gripper can be moved out of the engagement area of the bottle stowage table or tables assigned to it and back into the engagement area, wherein at the same time the compressed air or other actuation of the gripping elements of the bottle gripper can be provided such that it can be switched on or off. Switching the compressed air etc. on and off only serves to save compressed air or to protect the rubber gripper sleeves. On the other hand, it is essential to move the bottle grippers out of the engagement area of a bottle stowage table that has not yet been fully stowed so that the incoming or already run-in but not yet centered bottles do not hinder the grippers or are knocked over by the latter. This makes it possible to have the bottle wrapping machine, regardless of whether all bottle stowage tables are fully stowed or not, perform a working stroke as soon as at least one of the bottle stowage tables is full of bottles. In principle, bottles can be refilled independently of the respective work cycle of the gripper heads on the individual, not yet fully stowed bottle tables, at least insofar as the bottle stowage tables each have their own drive for their bottle conveyor belts. Overall, a considerable rationalization and mechanical savings can be achieved, the machine cycle of the packing machine being controlled by the volume of the sorted bottles and, depending on the volume, not only the bottle crates available for one bottle type can be filled with one cycle, but also the bottle crates, that belong to several or all selected bottle types. This ensures a good degree of utilization of the system and its machines.

Starting from a bottle and bottle crate further treatment system with a bottle packing machine, the gripper head support device of which extends across the machine width and is designed as a traverse and can be moved on a hook-shaped path curve in the work cycle of the machine, a first further inventive concept is characterized by the features listed in claim 2. Bottle packing machines with a crossbar that can be moved across the machine width and on which bottle gripper heads are located next to each other are e.g. previously known from DE-GM 18 68 658 or "H. & K.-Journal" No. 82, from Holstein & Kappert AG, Dortmund, Copyrigth April 1975 page 11, picture 13. However, these machines do not allow the simultaneous processing of different types of bottles, since there are no separate bottleneck tables for different types of bottles and bottle grippers, which are lowered to the ready bottles with each work cycle and grasp the bottles and insert them together into the bottle crates.

In contrast, the invention allows the lateral movement of bottle gripper heads to a separate bottle jam table that is jammed with a certain type of bottle on the basis of a request impulse in that the jammed bottle jam table requests the bottle gripper head assigned to it. This is done in a known manner, for example by means of bottle jam control devices in accordance with D _E -AS 20 11 682 or DE-PS 22 43 227, which, however, must be provided separately for each individual bottle jam table, ie for each type of bottle. The request pulse of such a bottle jam table is stored at least until the start of the work cycle. For this purpose, stop or control points are provided on the crossbeam, which stop the motor drive of the respective tab gripper head as soon as it stops the stop of the calling bottle jam table. Depending on the width thereof and the number of types of bottles, one or more gripper heads can be provided laterally independently of one another on the crossmember within predetermined limits. Each gripper head is assigned more than one bottleneck table, so that it can be called up from the stopping point of one stowage table to the stopping point of the other stowage table in its working area when required.

If only one movable bottle gripper head is arranged on the crossbar, then a complete work cycle of the crossbar is carried out immediately after the bottle gripper head requested from a fully stowed bottle jam table, namely lowering onto the bottles from the upper, raised basic position, lifting and lowering to the associated bottle crates on a hook-shaped movement path and returning to the upper, raised basic position.

This process takes place again and again if the bottle jam table is completely stowed again and a polling pulse has not previously been triggered and saved by any other bottle jam table. However, if there is an earlier or privileged request for another bottle jam table, the bottle gripper head moves laterally in the direction of the bottle jam table to the stop, whereupon the work cycle is carried out in the new position of the bottle gripper head. The prerequisite for this is that the bottle diameters and the arrangement of the bottle grippers for the different bottle types are largely identical. The outer shape and also the height of the bottle types can be different because of the bottles In any case, grippers only attack the standardized bottle mouth and different bottle heights can either be taken into account by adjusting the bottle gripper plate of the bottle gripper head, or the overstroke of the axially sprung bottle gripper can handle different heights without problems.

If not only a bottle gripper head is arranged on the traverse, then each gripper head is called up in its area as with a single gripper head; however, the work cycle of the traverse is only triggered when all bottle gripper heads are above an associated fully stowed bottle jam table. If sorted bottles with a much larger diameter are obtained than other sorted bottles, the arrangement of a second bottle gripper head with a different division is expedient.

In this case, a different bottle crate must also usually be used, which must then be fed to its stacking place separately from the others.

If the number of bottles sorted out for a certain bottle type always significantly exceeds the number of other bottle types sorted out, a fixed single or multiple gripper head can be provided for this bottle type and a movable bottle gripper head for the other types on the same crossbar (Fig. 6).

In order to be able to operate a second, fixed or movable single or multiple gripper head largely continuously, irrespective of a movable gripper head and the filling status of each bottle stop table assigned to it, the one movable gripper head on the crossbeam is given a working position to which no bottle stop table is assigned and into which the bottle packing head arrives when none of the bottle stowage tables assigned to it is sufficiently filled with bottles, but on the bottle stowage table or tables of the second gripper head, however, enough bottles are jammed in order to be able to pack continuously.

It is already known to provide bottle packaging machines which have gripper heads arranged on a crossbar with a common bottle box conveyor which is continued in the same direction as the bottle box conveyor from the packaging machine, the bottle box conveyor having a controllable box allocation device for feeding empty bottle boxes to the bottle box parking spaces .

A further development of the invention is characterized by the features listed in claim 3.

The bottle crate conveyor can be guided out of the bottle packing machine in alignment with the bottle crate conveyor and the row of bottle crate parking spaces. Here, the bottle crate allocation device always assigns only one bottle crate to the bottle crate storage spaces and this is crammed with e.g. Locked and centered on the driven conveyor rollers upward controllable stop (roughly in accordance with DE-AS 19 25 556) on the box parking space that is assigned to the calling bottle storage table. After the bottles have been inserted, the bottle crate filled with a special type arrives at the bottle crate conveyor, on which crates with different types of bottles leave the bottle wrapping machine in succession in a mixed sequence.

An alternative to this is proposed for somewhat higher services and is characterized by the features stated in claim 5.

This arrangement has the advantage that all of the bottle crate storage spaces assigned to the individual bottle crates can be filled with empty bottle crates. As soon as one of the crates is filled with bottles, this bottle crate alone is transversely to its conveying direction by the separate one as the end of the work cycle controllable pushers pushed across onto the laterally offset discharge conveyor, whereupon a new box is released in the direction of the bottle box parking spaces from the bottle box allocation device. The bottle crates that are not pushed open open in the direction of conveyance and the newly added bottle crate occupies the last parking space in the direction of conveyance. However, here too, the bottle crates leave the bottle packing machine with different bottle types in succession in a mixed sequence.

In a further development of the invention it is proposed according to claim 6 that a bottle crate conveyor so loaded with bottle crates is first led to a full crate sorting station and the latter is assigned to at least one bottle crate stacking station. The sorting and stacking is expediently carried out manually or semi-automatically, whereby an observer effects the selection by controlling an ejection or pushing-over process, and the stacking is also carried out semi-automatically, controlled by an operator, on transport pallets on transport pallets. Starting from a bottle and bottle crate further treatment system with a bottle packing machine, the gripper head support device of which extends across the machine width and is designed as a crossbar and can be moved on a hook-shaped path curve in the work cycle of the machine, a second, further inventive concept is characterized by the features listed in claim 7.

The invention enables at medium and high hourly outputs an uninterrupted sequence of working cycles, if only any of the various bottles tables completely tab species with the associated _F is fed. The fact that the gripper heads only get into the gripping position, ie into the lower position, when sufficient fla is actually on the associated bottle storage table are present, but otherwise remain in the upper empty position, in which they do not come into contact with bottles on the storage table, straight bottles or the bottle crates even during the work cycle of the machine, each bottle storage table can have its own, fixed on the crossbar Bottle gripper head can be provided, which can also be designed as a known double or multiple head if required.

In order to be able to use the advantages provided by the inventive design of the bottle gripper heads also with regard to the further treatment of the bottle crates filled with the different types of bottles, a system with a bottle packing machine that has a bottle feeder is equipped with a controllable bottle crate allocation device for injecting empty bottle crates on the bottle crate parking spaces and a corresponding number of separate bottle crate conveyors, each of which is continued at right angles from the row of bottle crate storage spaces, an advantageous further development is proposed by the features listed in claim 8.

It has already become known from DE-AS 12 25 101 to continue to convey the bottles at right angles in packaging machines by a common pusher and then to collect them again on a common conveyor. With this device, however, the bottle crates filled simultaneously with one type of bottle are pushed across and the same number of empty crates reach the parking spaces. Such a device is not usable for a system according to the invention, because several separate bottleneck tables are jammed in different times with different bottles in an unpredictable manner and then packed in the associated box in the next work cycle regardless of the loading state of the other bottleneck tables and this box un depending on the other boxes must be pushed over and carried on.

Starting from a bottle and bottle crate further processing system with a bottle packing machine, the gripper head carrying device of which is designed as a horizontally and vertically movable frame, can be moved on a hook-shaped path curve in the work cycle of the machine, and on its underside several, at right angles next to and behind one another in columns and Having rows arranged bottle gripper heads, a third further inventive idea is characterized by the features listed in claim 9.

Gripper head support devices, which are designed as a horizontally and vertically movable frame and have on their underside several bottle gripper heads arranged at right angles next to and behind one another in columns and rows, are known and are used to a considerable extent in the case of multi-lane box transport. For example, we refer to the magazine "Enzinger-Nachrichten" no .: 2, August 1977, page 31, top picture. The bottle grippers can be seen arranged in groups according to the box arrangement in right-angled columns and rows next to each other. If bottles are packed in bundles in nine arriving bottle crates at the same time with a gripper head, then nine bottle gripper heads, each with bottle grippers, are required for a bottle crate. Such bottle packing machines allow the highest packing performance with a relatively simple structure and a small footprint. If, according to the invention, the bottle gripper heads are combined to form individual gripper head groups that can be raised and lowered, each comprising an arrangement column, and are additionally formed in groups or columns by separately controllable lifting devices, then can be combined with corresponding columns arranged bottle jam tables, different types of bottles are collected independently of one another on the bottle jam tables and then packed independently of one another in the bottle crates. This is most conveniently carried out with machines as are also known, inter alia, from the magazine "Enzinger-Nachrichten", August 1977, Issue No. 2, page 29, middle picture.

A further development of the invention in order to use the increase in performance given by the column-wise combination and control of the gripper heads and the corresponding allocation of the accumulation tables also in relation to the further treatment of the bottle crate is characterized by the features specified in claim 10.

The column-wise gripper head gaps, which are grouped together, require corresponding bottle box positions which are grouped together in strips and which can be removed separately in strips after loading, independently of the boxes of the adjacent grouped positions. With a correspondingly high throughput rate of sorted bottles, as can be achieved with this system, the bottle crates, as they already occur in the machine by type on different conveyor tracks, are also separately transported to bottle crate stacking places, so as not to select the bottle crates again according to their content have to. If one or more of the bottleneck tables are not yet fully loaded, but if at least one of the bottleneck tables is fully stowed, then the bottle gripper heads belonging to the one or more fully loaded bottleneck tables are lowered into their lower gripping position, while the remaining gripper heads remain in their upper empty position or in them be raised. This can be a. A packing work stroke of the gripper head support device can be initiated or initiated without the occurrence of malfunctions due to bottles which are on the storage tables which are not yet full.

A further development of the invention is characterized by the features listed in claim 11. This allows the incoming örderbahnen on separate _F, respectively same bottle types exhibiting boxes after varieties are separately loaded on the transport pallets and then stored until further use. It is possible to provide either a separate palletizing machine for each type or a known common palletizing machine for several types, which can be moved between one or more forming positions and correspondingly several pallet positions for the different types.

In order to be able to carry out the palletizing of the sorted bottle types in the plant according to the invention without avoidable pauses, the invention is further characterized by the features listed in claim 12.

It is thereby achieved that the palletizing machine only comes into operation or is requested from the relevant bottle crate stacking place by a corresponding control pulse when there are sufficient bottle crates _n on the associated bottle crate conveyor for loading at least one pallet. The palletizing machine is then able to load a pallet without stopping and in the shortest possible time and can then be called to another bottle crate stacking place by privileged control impulse, on the feeder of which in the meantime there is a sufficient number for loading a pallet with another Bottle type filled "bottle crates.

In a further development of the treatment plant with machines and conveying devices for unloading and loading pallets, for unpacking and packing bottles in bottle crates and for sorting bottles by type and / or nature, the invention is characterized by the features listed in claim 13.

Such a treatment plant is completely self-contained. The bottle crates filled with different types of bottles are first unloaded from the pallet. The bottles are unpacked from the boxes. The bottles are fed to the sorting machine, the empty boxes to a box washing machine and the unloaded pallets to a pallet magazine. All bottle conveyors of the sorting machine are separately connected to the individual bottle jam tables of the packaging machine. The bottles are inserted into the bottle crates that are fed into the packaging machine, washed and provided, sorted by type. The bottle crates are then separated by type on separate crate conveyor tracks, which have a corresponding storage capacity, to one or more palletizing machines, where they are loaded by type onto separately positioned pallets that are retrieved from the pallet magazine. The bottle crates, which are now palletized separately by type, are taken out of the palletizing machine on a pallet basis, stored separately according to type and, if necessary, fed separately for sorting.

A further development of the treatment system according to the invention with machines and conveying devices for unloading or loading pallets, for unpacking and packing bottles in bottle crates and for sorting bottles by type and / or nature is characterized by the features listed in claim 14.

From the bottle sorting device, in particular a bottle sorting machine, those bottles which can be refilled immediately are fed on a separate bottle conveyor for further processing by cleaning, filling, closing, labeling, etc., while the sorted bottles, as already described, are sorted by type separated in bottles boxes are set and palletized. The regularly refilled and closed bottles are also used in bottle crates and then expediently arrive at the same palletizing machine which also loads the bottle crates filled with sorted empty bottles onto pallets. The system is particularly advantageous if the number of bottles to be sorted out is small in relation to the number of bottles that can be processed immediately and the sorted bottle types only fill up at longer intervals or cannot be used at all in your own company.

For further better utilization of a treatment plant in which a large part of the bottles passing through the sorting machine can be processed immediately, the invention is characterized by the features listed in claim 15.

This makes it possible to use the same bottle packing machine to insert both the sorted out empty bottles and the newly filled bottles, which are processed further in the usual way, in separate bottle crates and to treat them further. As far as the crates are led separately to their crate stacking locations by sort, it is possible to provide a common known sorting palletizing machine for the filled crates and for the crates containing empty bottles - as already described. However, it is also possible to further convey crates with full goods and empties on a common conveyor and then to sort out the bottle crates filled with empties manually, semi-automatically or with a full-box sorter and then to palletize them separately. Will both a common bottle packing machine according to the invention and a common palletizing machine for the full goods and for the different types of empties used, the machine outlay as well as the space required for the overall system can be kept particularly low.

Further features and advantages of the invention can be found in the exemplary embodiments which are shown schematically in the drawing and are described in more detail below:

• Fig.1 die Draufsicht auf die Flaschenzufuhr einer Flascheneinpackmaschine mit quer verfahrbarem Flaschengreiferkopf und fluchtendem Kastenan- und -abförderer,
• Fig.2 die Draufsicht auf den quer verfahrbaren Flaschengreiferkopf und einen parallel zum Flaschenkastenanförderer abgeführten Flaschenkastenabförderer,
• Fig.3 einen quer verfahrbaren Flaschengreiferkopf in der Ansicht,
• Fig.4 eine Ansicht eines Greiferkopfes entsprechend Fig.3 im vergrößerten Maßstab von vorn, teilweise geschnitten,
• Fig.5 den Greiferkopf gemäß Fig.4 von der Seite gesehen,
• Fig.6 einen quer verfahrbaren Flaschengreiferkopf mit zusätzlich auf der Traverse fixiertem Mehrfachflaschengreiferkopf mit Kastenstellplätzen,
• Fig.7 die Draufsichtauf einen Flaschenkastenzuförderer mit Flaschenkastenstellplätzen und quer zu letzteren verlaufenden, getrennten Flaschenkastenabförderern,
• Fig.8 einen quer zu dem Flaschenkastenstellplätzen verlaufenden schematischen Schnitt durch die Einpackmaschine,
• Fig.9 ein vereinfachtes Schaltschema einer Einpackmaschine mit quer verfahrbarem Flaschengreiferkopf,
• Fig.9a ein Blockschema des vereinfachten Arbeitsablaufes einer Einpackmaschine mit quer verfahrbarem Flaschengreiferkopf,
• Fig.10 die Draufsicht auf die Flaschenförderung und die Kastenan- und -abförderung mit mehreren Flaschengreiferköpfen in der Draufsicht,
• Fig.11 eine Ansicht der Maschine nach Fig.10 mit vier auf einer Traverse angeordneten Greiferköpfen,
• Fig.12 ein vereinfachtes Schaltschema einer Einpackmaschine mit mehreren Flaschengreiferköpfen,
• Fig.12a ein Blockschema des vereinfachten Arbeitsablaufes einer Einpackmaschine mit mehreren Flaschengreiferköpfen,
• Fig.13 eine Flascheneinpackmaschine mit einem Rahmengestell und mehreren, rechtwinklig zueinander angeordneten Flaschengreiferköpfen,
• Fig.14 die Kastenförderung in Draufsicht für eine Flascheneinpackmaschine nach Fig.13,
• Fig.15 in axonometrischer Darstellung spaltenweise heb-und senkbare Greiferköpfe für eine Flascheneinpackmaschine nach Fig.13,
• Fig.16 die Einspeisung von Flaschenkästen von der Seite her,
• Fig.17 die mögliche Anordnung einer Sortier- und Stapeleinrichtung, soweit die ankommenden Flaschenkästenmit unterschiedlichen Flaschensorten in gemischter Folge angefördert werden (Grundriß),
• Fig.18 den Grundriß der auf getrennten Kastenabförderern zu einer Sortenpalettiermaschine geförderten Flaschenkästen,
• Fig.19 eine Ansicht (schematisch) einer Sortenpalettiereinrichtung gemäß Fig.18,
• Fig.20 eine in sich geschlossene Behandlungsanlage zum nach Sorten getrennten Umpalettieren von sortiertem Leergut (Grundriß),
• Fig.21 eine mit der normalen Abfüllkolonne kombinierte Sortieranlage mit gemeinsamer Sortenpalettierung im Grundriß,
• Fig.22 eine mit einer normalen Flaschenbehandlungskolonne kombinierte Sortieranlage, bei der sowohl für das Einpakken als auch für das Palettieren jeweils eine gemeinsame Maschine vorgesehen ist (im Grundriß).

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• 1 shows the top view of the bottle feed of a bottle packing machine with a cross-movable bottle gripper head and aligned box feeder and unloader,
• 2 shows the top view of the transversely displaceable bottle gripper head and a bottle crate conveyor which is led away parallel to the bottle crate conveyor,
• 3 a cross-movable bottle gripper head in the view,
• 4 shows a view of a gripper head corresponding to FIG. 3 on an enlarged scale, partly in section,
• 5 the gripper head according to FIG. 4 seen from the side,
• 6 a transversely movable bottle gripper head with an additional multi-bottle gripper head with box positions fixed on the crossbeam,
• 7 shows the top view of a bottle case conveyor with bottle case storage spaces and separate bottle case conveyors running transversely to the latter,
• 8 shows a diagrammatic section through the packing machine running transversely to the bottle crate storage locations,
• 9 shows a simplified circuit diagram of a packaging machine with a bottle gripper head which can be moved transversely,
• 9a is a block diagram of the simplified workflow of a packaging machine with a cross-movable bottle gripper head,
• 10 shows the top view of the bottle conveyor and the crate delivery and removal with several bottle gripper heads in a top view,
• 11 shows a view of the machine according to FIG. 10 with four gripper heads arranged on a traverse,
• 12 shows a simplified circuit diagram of a packaging machine with several bottle gripper heads,
• 12a shows a block diagram of the simplified workflow of a packaging machine with several bottle gripper heads,
• 13 a bottle packing machine with a frame and a plurality of bottle gripper heads arranged at right angles to one another,
• 14 the box conveyor in top view for a bottle packing machine according to FIG. 13,
• 15 shows an axonometric representation of the gripper heads that can be lifted and lowered in columns for a bottle packing machine according to FIG. 13,
• 16 the feeding of bottle crates from the side,
• 17 shows the possible arrangement of a sorting and stacking device, provided the incoming bottle crates with different types of bottles are conveyed in a mixed sequence (floor plan),
• 18 shows the plan of the bottle crates conveyed on separate crate conveyors to a sorting palletizing machine,
• 19 is a view (schematic) of a sorting palletizing device according to FIG. 18,
• 20 shows a self-contained treatment plant for the re-palletizing of sorted empties separated by type (floor plan),
• 21 a sorting system combined with the normal filling column with a common sorting of pallets in the plan,
• 22 shows a sorting system combined with a normal bottle treatment column, in which a common machine is provided for the packing as well as for the palletizing (in plan view).

In FIG. 1, the discharge conveyors for sorted bottles, which are continued separately from the sorting device, for example the sorting machine 1 (FIGS. 20, 21, 22), are labeled 2 to 5. 20, 21 and 22, however, only the separate conveyor tracks 2 to 4 for sorted bottles are continued directly from the sorting machine 1. They have separating rails 6 so that the sorted bottles 9 can be guided separately to the separate bottle jam tables 8a to 8d of the packaging machine 7. Each of the bottleneck tables 8a to 8d has partitions 12, a front locking stop 13 and a separate bottleneck table control device 14a to 14d. The latter give 7 impulses to the control device of the bottle packing machine as soon as the associated bottle storage table 8a to 8d is completely filled with bottles 9. The effects that trigger the control impulses are explained in the other context. The Flascheneinpackmaschine 7 comprises in a known manner in a movable machine cycle traverse 15 which ahnkurve on a hook-shaped _B (Fig.8) between _F lug box plots 17a to 17d and the bottle storage table 8a to 8d upstream and moved back.

According to a first embodiment, a bottle gripper head 18 on the cross member 15 can be moved laterally in accordance with arrow 18 in addition to the movement (trajectory curve 16) which the cross member 15 executes. The single bottle gripper head 18 can therefore be moved to each of the bottle jam tables 8a to 8d. The request is initiated in each case by the first request impulse from a control device 14a to 14d, which signals that the associated bottle storage table 8a to 8d is full and that the bottles 9 can be inserted into a bottle crate 19 which is already in the associated bottle parking space 17a to 17d or - like the Fla rule gripper head 18 - is also lax box-pitch spot only to the relevant _F accessed 17a to 17d. In FIG. 1, the bottle crate conveyor 21 and bottle crate conveyor 22 as well as the conveying devices of the bottle crate parking spaces 17a to 17d run in alignment with one another. The conveyor track consists, for example, of driven rollers 21a, only a few of which are drawn. Between such rollers 21a are located at the end of a bottle crate parking place 17a to 17d are each an upwardly into controllable in the box conveying path stop 24a to 24d, the one on the _F laschenkastenan- conveying path 21 incoming and shared through the bottle dosing device 23 and further conveyed bottle crate 19 on a predetermined bottle crate parking space 17a to 17d locked. According to Figure 1, the fully filled with different types of bottle 19 bottle crates arrive in mixed order on the Flaschenkastenabförderbahn 22 from the _F lascheneinpackmaschine 7 out (not shown) on a common Flaschenkastenabförderer and the bottle crate stack positions 40, for example, according to Fig.17. If, for example, according to FIG. 1, the bottle stowage table 8c is completely filled with a certain type of bottle that arrives on the bottle conveyor track 3 from the sorting device, then the control device 14c sends a polling pulse to the machine control, which in turn - if there is no prior or privileged polling pulse is stored - causes the bottle gripper head 18 - if it previously another bottle storage table, for. B. was assigned to the bottleneck table 8a - now moves to 8c and stops there. At the same time, a bottle crate 19 is released by the bottle dispenser 23 and the stop 24c is steered upwards into the stop position, so that the released crate 19 is stopped at the parking space 17c and with the bottles on the bottle type 8c bottle can be filled in the usual way. The traverse 15 begins its packing movement in accordance with curve 16 (FIG. 8) as soon as the bottle gripper head 18 is in the position above the bottle storage table 8c and at the same time a box 19 also bears against the stop 24c of the parking space 17c. As soon as the bottles 9 are inserted into the box 19, the cross member 15 returns to its starting position. The stop 24c is lowered so that the crate 19, now filled with bottles 9, continues from the crate storage space 17c to the bottle conveyor 22 and leaves the bottle packing machine 7. The process is repeated as soon as one of the bottleneck tables 8a to 8d is filled with bottles, in which case the gripper head 18 as well as a newly released box 19 reach the corresponding positions and, after the bottles 9 have been inserted into the boxes 19, are conveyed further on the discharge conveyor 22 will. However, the running in of the boxes 19 requires a corresponding amount of time and limits the performance of the packing machine 7 if the travel time of the bottle gripper head 18 is short but the running-in time of a bottle box is long. This is particularly the case for the parking spaces 17a, 17b in connection with packing operations from the bottleneck tables 8a and 8b.

In order to avoid these disadvantages, the bottle conveyor 22 can be offset laterally according to FIG. 2 and continued parallel to the bottle conveyor 21. In this case, a separate, separately controllable bottle cradle 25a to 25d is additionally provided for each of the bottle crate parking spaces 17a to 17c. If, for example, the bottle crate 19 located on the bottle crate storage space 17c is filled with bottles 9, the push-over valve 25c, which can be moved pneumatically or mechanically, is actuated and pushes the bottle crate 9 onto the discharge conveyor _2. lane 22. The resulting gap in the parking space 17c is initially filled by the empty box 19 located in the bottle crate storage space 17d by moving up after the stop 24d has been lowered. As soon as the parking space 17c again has a bottle crate 19 and the parking space 17d is now empty, the bottle crate allocation device 23 releases another bottle crate, which then runs into the parking space 17d and against the stop 24d. If, for example, the bottle crate 19 located on parking space 17a is pushed onto the bottle crate conveyor 22, then all the bottle crates located on the parking spaces 17b, 17c and 17d open to the right, and from the left a new bottle crate 19 runs into the bottle crate space 17d that has become free . On the bottle crate conveyor 22, bottle crates 19, which have bottles 9 of different shapes or different features, continue to be conveyed one after the other in a mixed sequence.

The bottle gripper head 18 according to FIG. 3 or FIGS. 4 and 5, which is kept on a larger scale and shows details, has a trolley 18a which can be moved by means of running wheels or rollers 18b on the crossbar 15 consisting of a square tube. The trolley 18a has a controlled, electromotive drive 18c which is connected via a chain drive 18d to the drive shaft of the drive gear 18e. The latter meshes in a chain 18f which is fixedly arranged on the upper side of the crossmember 15 and which takes over the function of a fixed toothing. On the trolley 18a, a height-adjustable support frame 18g is arranged, on the cross member 18h of which the gripper head support frame 18i equipped with known bottle grippers 11 is suspended.

The bottles on the storage tables 8a to 8d, in the bottle grippers 19 and in the bottle crates are labeled 9, regardless of the different types. 1 and 2, for reasons of clarity, the conveyor belts of the bottleneck tables 8a to 8d running transversely to the conveyor belts 2 to 5 are not particularly shown. However, these conveyor belts can be seen in FIGS. 6, 8 and 11 and are each designated 10. All bottle conveyors 10 of the bottle packing machine 7, 7a, 7b can have their own, jointly controlled drive. However, with somewhat more effort, each of the bottle belts 10 belonging to a bottle storage table 8a to 8d can be provided with a separately controllable drive or can be separately coupled to the common drive by means of clutch couplings or separately stopped. By means of the separate drive, it can be achieved that the conveying of the bottles 9 to the bottle tables which have not yet been fully stowed can continue without interruption, while a bundle is removed from the fully stowed bottle stowage table and the corresponding conveyor belts 10 of this bottle stopping table are shut down.

As FIGS. 4 and 6 show, stopping points 26a to 26d are arranged on the traverse 15, assigned to the respective bottle jam tables 8a to 8d, offset in terms of sides and height, in the form of switching devices, preferably proximity switches. Corresponding switching bridges 27a to 27d are staggered in height in the housing of the trolley 18a but are provided perpendicular to one another. If the bottle gripper head 18 reaches the stopping point 26c during the lateral movement, then the switching bridge 27c actuates the proximity switch 26c and the motor drive 18c is stopped by the latter if the bottle gripper head 18 has been called up by a delivery impulse from the bottle stowage table 8c.

In FIG. 6, in addition to a single bottle gripper head 18 movable on the cross member 15, a multiple gripper head 28 is fixedly arranged at one end. The movable gripper head 18 can be moved laterally to four different stopping points 26a to 26d, of which stopping point 26d no longer belongs to a bottleneck table. If the bottle gripper head 18 is in this offside position 26d, then the packing and unpacking takes place exclusively with the fixed double gripper head 28, which is particularly suitable when a much larger number of bottles 9 per unit of time reach the bottleneck tables 8e and 8f than on the bottleneck tables 8a to 8c. If the bottle gripper head 18 is then in the offside position 26d, then the bottles arriving on the bottle tables 8e and 8f can be packed without interruption, while the bottles 9 first accumulate on the accumulation tables 8a to 8c in accordance with the different types that arise. As soon as one of the bottle stowage tables 8a to 8c is fully stowed by the bottle control device 14 shown in FIG. 1, the bottle gripper head 18 is moved to the corresponding stopping point 26a, b or c during an intermediate stop of the cross member 15 and then in the next work cycle in addition to the bottles conveyed on the bottle jam table 8e and f, the bottles specially conveyed, for example on the bottle jam table 8a, are also packed. If there is then no further request impulse from the bottle jam tables 8a to 8c, the bottle gripper head 18 is again moved into its offside position 26d and the packing process alone with the fixed gripper head 28 - irrespective of whether it is a single or multiple gripper head - can be continued. The subsequent feeding of the bottle crates 19 to the corresponding bottle crate parking spaces 17a to 17c and 17e and 17f takes place in a corresponding manner as described for FIG. As soon as a gap through one the full, empty bottle crate is created, the subsequent empty crates open up. The control is carried out in a corresponding manner by actuating the stops 24 - pneumatically or electromechanically - in sequence control and logically linked to the control and switching impulses of the bottleneck tables, the movable gripper heads and the drive of the movement of the cross member 15 and the bottle and box conveyors

While, according to FIG. 2, bottle crates 19 loaded with different types of bottles are removed in a mixed sequence on the discharge conveyor 22 - which means a subsequent separation of the bottle crates, e.g. in a mechanical full-box sorter or purely manually or semi-automatically - according to FIG. 7, boxes 19 filled with different types of bottles are separated by their pushers 25a to 25d, depending on the case, onto bottle box conveyors 22a to 22d that run separately and at right angles to the conveyance, and can then be transferred to these separate bottle crate conveyors are fed separately to the bottle crate stacking positions Fig. 18 to 21.

8 shows in section, transversely to the conveyor 21 according to the top view of FIG. 7, the bottle crate conveyors 22a to 22d, which run at right angles to the conveyor.

FIG. 9 schematically shows a simplified circuit diagram for operating a packer with a bottle gripper head which can be moved transversely. In this case, 71 denotes the gear motor which can be remotely controlled by the control lines 71a and which is connected to the housing of the packaging machine 7. By means of the geared motor 71, the cross member 15 can be moved up and down on the hook-shaped movement path 16 (FIG. 8) with the aid of drive chains 71b. At the traver _S2 15, a switching element 73 is provided, which acts on the switching means 72a to 72c arranged along the movement path 16 during the movement past and reports the respectively reached position of the cross member 15 to the switching and control unit 100 through the associated pulse lines 72d. With the help of the remotely controllable electromotive drive 18c and its flexible control line 74a, the bottle gripper head 18 can be moved back and forth in the direction of the arrow 18k. (See also FIGS. 1 to 6.) Of the holding points 26a to 26d designed as switching means, only the holding points 26c and 26d are drawn on the cross member 15, which preferably interact in a contactless manner with the switching bridges 27c and 27d of the bottle gripper head 18 designed as switching elements ( see also FIGS. 4 and 5) and signal the switching and control unit 100 via flexible pulse lines 74b whether and which breakpoints 26c, 26d the bottle gripper head 18 has just reached or is holding.

The associated control devices 14d and 14c check in a known manner whether the associated bottle storage table 8c or 8d (see FIG. 1) is completely filled with bottles or not. The signal is only sent via the associated pulse lines 74c to the switching and control unit 100 if the associated bottle stowage table 8c or 8d is completely stowed with bottles.

The bottle crate parking spaces 17c and 17d are assigned to the respective stops 26c and 26d, the bottle jam tables 8c and 8d and the control devices 14c and 14d and each have a stop 24c and 24d for the bottle crates which can be remotely controlled via the control lines 74d in the conveying direction. Each bottle crate 17c and 17d can be assigned (according to FIGS. 2, 6, 7 and 10) a separate crate slider 25c and 25d which can be remotely controlled via the control lines 74e.

In addition, it is provided that each bottle crate location 17c and 17d has its own bottle crate sensor 75c and 75d, which uses the pulse line 74g to indicate to the switching and control unit 100 that a bottle crate is present on the respective bottle crate location 17c, 17d. The bottle allocation device 23 can be controlled via the control line 74f either in the blocking position or in the opening position and in the blocking position does not allow a bottle crate from the bottle crate feeder 21 to the bottle crate parking spaces 17c, 17d. In the open position, however, bottle crates can pass through and reach bottle crate locations 17c and 17d. In their locked position, the stops 24c and 24d hold the respective crate aligned on the associated bottle storage space 17c or 17d, while in the release position the bottle crates either reach the bottle crate storage spaces following in the conveying direction or can also leave the machine on the bottle crate conveyor 22.

The operation is as follows: _(F to ig.9) in its uppermost starting position the cross member 15 is initially in a waiting position in which the switching element 73 and switching means 72a opposed to each other. The pulse emitted via the pulse line 72d when this position is reached has stopped the geared motor 71 via the control line 71a. This was a condition that none of the ^- control devices 14c and 14d a fully jammed Separately bottles accumulation table the switch and control work had reported the 100th

If, as a result of further inflow of bottles, for example the separate accumulation table 8d, is filled with bottles, the control device 14d sends a pulse to the switching and control unit 100 via the pulse line 74c. The latter activates the switching means of the stopping point 26d of the bottle 8d is assigned and simultaneously initiates a search of the bottle gripper head 8 via the control line 74a, which is ended as soon as the switching element which is assigned to the switching bridge 27d comes to coincide with the switching means 26d. The switching means 26d then namely sends a switching pulse via the pulse line 74b to the switching and control unit 100, as a result of which the drive 18c of the bottle gripper head 18 is stopped via the control line 74a. If there is a bottle crate on the associated bottle crate parking space 17d, this is also reported to the switching and control unit 100 via the pulse line 74g of the bottle crate filler 75d. Only when pulses have been received in the switching and control unit 100 via the pulse lines 74b, 74c, 74g, is a control pulse sent to the geared motor 71 via the control line 71a, after which the traverse 15 on the hook-shaped curve 16 (FIG. 8) from the uppermost one Position until it is lowered over the bottleneck tables. The bottles present on the separate storage table 8d can then be gripped in a known manner. When the switching element 73 approaches the middle switching means 72b, an impulse (line 72d) is given to the switching and control unit 100, whereupon the gear motor 71 is switched to reverse gear and the traverse 15 on the hook-shaped curve 16 then down to its lowest Position is lowered over the bottle crate located on the bottle crate 17d. In this case, the switching element _"73 passes into the region of the lowermost switching means 72c, the via the pulse line 72d which reached lowermost position of the cross member 15 signals, after which the gear motor continues to run in the opposite rotational direction 71 and the cross member 15, in turn, preceded by the bottles in a known manner into the bottle crate in question has been inserted, back and running back to its top starting position, in which the Schaltelemer- 7J in the Area of action of the switching means 72a reaches. During the return of the traverse 15, that is to say caused by the switching means 72c, the blocking stop 24d is brought into its inactive position via the control line 74d, as is the stop 24c if it has not previously been deactivated. Then the now filled bottle crate on the discharge conveyor 22 can leave the packaging machine 7.

The box removal corresponds to the box removal as shown in Fig.1. The box pushers 25d, 25c with control line 74e are not arranged on such discharge devices; they are only required for discharge devices according to Fig. 2 and 7.

As long as at least one of the separate bottle stowage tables 7c, 7d is not again full of bottles, the traverse 15 remains in its upper starting and waiting position. However, if at least one of the bottle jam tables 8c, 8d has completely filled in the meantime, the traverse 15 only remains in its upper position until the search of the bottle packing head / ends by an impulse from the respective control device and after opening the bottle case allocation device 23 the control line 74f a box has run into the bottle box space 17c or 17d belonging to the full, separate storage table 8c or 8d and is blocked by the associated bottle box stop 24c or 24d which is controlled in the locked position and is present by the associated bottle box sensor 7Sc or 75d as the switching and control unit 100 was reported. A separate bottleneck table 8c, 8d can already be filled while a packing process is still in progress. The release and running-in of a new bottle crate onto the bottle crate associated with a fully stowed Separas bottle crate 8c or 8d Parking space 17c or 17d can take place as soon as the last filled bottle crate on the conveyor 22 has left the packing machine and none of the bottle crate sensors 75c or 75d indicates the presence of a bottle crate.

If, according to FIG. 2, the bottle crate conveyor 22 is arranged in parallel next to the bottle crate conveyor 21, each bottle crate, after it has been filled with bottles, is pushed over the associated bottle crate slide 25c or 25d onto the parallel conveyor 22 located next to it. In contrast to the bottle crate removal according to FIG. 1, all bottle crate locations 17c and 17d are occupied with empty bottle crates and, as soon as a bottle crate location, e.g. 17c, has become empty by being pushed over after the insertion of bottles onto the bottle crate conveyor 22, the gap is closed by moving up the on the previous bottle crate storage positions, e.g. 17d, replenished existing bottle crates. The gap which arises in the rearmost bottle crate storage space 17d is closed by allocating a new bottle crate after opening the bottle dispenser 23. Here, caused by the bottle crate sensors 75c and 75d, the stops 24c and 24d are opened until the associated bottle crate space is occupied again.

In the same way, the empty bottle crates are re-conveyed to the empty bottle crate spaces 17c, 17d if, according to FIG. 7, each bottle crate space 17c and 17d is assigned its own bottle crate conveyor 22c, 22d, which is carried out transversely to the direction in which the bottle crates are conveyed.

What was explained in FIG. 9 and the associated description for only two separate bottle tables 8c and 8d and parking spaces 17c and 17d, applies analogously for four or more separate bottle stowage tables and box storage spaces.

In the block diagram according to Fig. 9a, the most essential work processes of a packer with a cross-movable bottle gripper head are shown in simplified form (Fig. 1, 2, 6 and 9). There is a mutual influence of the processes, which are indicated by the pulse arrows I ₁ and I ₂ .

According to a second embodiment, the bottle wrapping machine 7a has several fixed on a cross member 15 moved according to FIG. 8 - as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, i.e. Bottle gripper heads 18, which are not laterally displaceable in a known manner and are assigned to the bottle jam tables 8a to 8d. Each bottle gripper head 18 is assigned one of the separate bottle jam tables 8a to 8d, on which bottles are stowed separately according to type or nature.

10 shows schematically the top view of the box conveyor 21, of the bottle gripper heads 18 fixedly arranged on the cross member 15, including a broken-off piece of the bottle jam tables 8a to 8d and further below the bottle box conveyor 22a to 22d running at right angles to the box conveyor 21.

11 shows in the view the arrangement of four identical bottle packing heads 18 above the bottle stowage tables 8a to 8d, the bottle stowage tables 8a and 8d being recognizable as being fully stowed with bottles, while on the bottle stowage tables 8b and 8c there are only a few bottles between the partitions 12 stand. As soon as at least one of the bottle stowage tables 8a to 8d is fully stowed with bottles 9, the cross beam 15 will cause the one in FIG indicated Packkurver 16. From Fig. 14 it can be seen that the bottle packing heads 18 each have a support frame 18i, which by means of a lifting device (pneumatic or electromechanical), for example with the piston-cylinder unit 30a, 30b and straight guides 30c, perpendicular to a short distance, for example 6 to 15 cm, into an upper empty position or a lower gripper position can be raised or lowered. 11 shows the two inner gripper frames 18i just in the upper empty position, the two outer gripper frames 18i in the lower gripper position. Thus, the bottles 9 located on the bottle jam tables 8a and 8d can be adjusted with one stroke into the bottle crates 19 located on the bottle crate storage locations 17a and 17d (FIG. 10), while the individual bottles located on the bottle jam tables 8b and 8c can be adjusted by the bottle grippers 11 the packing movement are not touched. The packing process for the bottle types located on the fully stowed bottle tables can therefore be carried out independently and without being influenced by those on the bottle stowage tables 8b and 8c which are not yet fully filled. Bottles 9 take place. There are various possible variations, for example the arrangement of fixed multiple gripper heads similar to that in FIG. 6, in which case an empty position 26d without an automatic bottle dispenser is eliminated or the arrangement of liftable and lowerable multiple bottle gripper heads. The same applies to the mobile bottle gripper heads according to FIGS. 2 to 6. The lifting and lowering bottle gripper frames are controlled by pulses which, as shown in FIG. 1, originate from the control devices 14 assigned to the bottle jam tables 8a to 8d. The control can take place without substantial linkage with other signals, in contrast to the control of the cross-movable bottle gripper head 18, which can be controlled to the left or to the right depending on the request, and not only called up, but also how which must be stopped in the appropriate position. However, the effort according to FIGS. 10 and 11 is correspondingly higher because each bottle storage table has its own bottle gripper head; combined with the cross-conveyance of the filled bottle crates, however, there is a considerably greater performance.

12 shows schematically a simplified circuit diagram for operating a packaging machine with several bottle gripper heads, each of which is assigned to a separate accumulation table.

The illustration differs from the illustration in FIG. 9 with regard to the arrangement of bottle gripper heads 18 on the cross member 15. Instead of a single, in the sense of arrow 18k (Fig.1, 9) on both sides via the separate bottleneck tables 8a to 8c or box positions 17a to 17d on the crossbar 15, the bottle gripper head 18 can be moved transversely according to FIG 10 and 11 on the cross member 15 each have a plurality of bottle gripper heads 18 fixed, that is to say they cannot be moved laterally and are assigned to the associated separate bottle; automatic 8a, 8b or the bottle crate storage locations 17a, 17b. There is therefore not a single bottle gripper head 18 which is assigned in the search run (FIG. 9) to the bottle jam table 8c, 8d that is first fully jammed and must therefore be movable; rather, each bottle storage table 8a, 8b has its own bottle gripper head 18 (FIG. 12). The latter each have a remotely controllable lifting device, for example in the form of a piston-cylinder unit 30a, 30c, with the aid of which the gripper head support frame 18i of the bottle gripper head 18 can be raised or lowered perpendicularly in each case a distance of approximately 6 to 15 cm relative to the bottle gripper head 18 . This raising and lowering is carried out via the at least partially flexible control lines 76 by the switching and control unit 100 prompted. In the gripping, ie in the lowered position, the bottle grippers 11 (FIG. 11) arranged on the support frame 18i reach over the bottles pent up on the bottle storage table 8a and can grip them, while in the upper, ie empty position, the bottle grippers 11 so far (about 6 to 15 cm) are raised so that they can neither grip nor touch the bottles on the bottle jam tables 8c and 8b (Fig. 11).

The mode of operation is as follows:

Exactly as set forth in FIG. 9, the cross member 15 initially remains in its upper waiting position also according to FIG. 12, the gripper head carrier frames 18i being held in their upper, ie empty, position. Only when at least one of the bottle stowage tables 8a, 8b is stowed with bottles and a bottle case is present on the associated bottle crate storage space 17a, 17b is the support frame 18i of the associated bottle gripper head 18 lowered into the lower, ie the gripping position. The control pulse originates from the switching and control unit 100 and via the control line 76 to the gripper head 18. In addition, the drive chain 71b together with the cross member 15 and the bottle gripper head 18 becomes the bottle jam tables via a control pulse which is fed to the gear motor 71 through the line 71a 8a and 8b moved there. In this case, only the bottles, for example on the fully stowed bottle storage table 18a, are gripped by the bottle grippers 11, raised after switching over the direction of movement of the cross member 15, and further introduced on the hook-shaped curved path 16 into the bottle case provided on the bottle case parking space 17a. As shown in Figure 11, on the bottle storage table 8b and 8c located individual bottles from the bottle grippers 11 are in this case still be due to the _L remaining eerposition associated support frame 18i not detected stirs. Only when, for example, one of these bottleneck tables 8b, 8c is also fully stowed with bottles and a bottle crate is on the relevant bottle crate storage space 17b, 17c can these bottles also be detected in a subsequent work cycle and introduced into a bottle crate. If several bottleneck tables 8a, 8d etc. prove to be fully jammed at the same time or almost simultaneously, the support frames 18i also reach several bottle gripper heads 18 in the gripping position and - provided that all associated bottle crate storage spaces 17a, 17d have empty bottle crates - the bottles will then also be several Separate bottle jam tables 18a, 18d removed simultaneously and inserted into the associated bottle crates at the same time (Fig. 11).

Here, too, there are various possibilities for feeding and removing the bottle crate, as have already been described in connection with FIG. 9 and FIGS. 2, 7 and 10. With an arrangement according to FIG. 11, whenever a plurality of bottle stowage tables 8a, 8b etc. are fully stowed at the same time or almost simultaneously and a separate gripper head 18 is provided for each separate bottle stowage table, a significantly greater bottle and bottle crate throughput can be achieved than in the case of the Devices in which only a single bottle gripper head 18 is provided for several separate bottle jam tables (FIGS. 1, 2, 3). For an arrangement according to FIG. 11, feeding and removing the bottle crates, as shown in FIG. 10, is expedient. Each bottle crate storage location 17a to 17d is assigned a separate bottle crate conveyor 22a to 22d, which is continued transversely to the conveying direction. The pushers 25a, 25b are actuated by the switching and control unit 100, as are the stops 24a and 24b. The switching and control unit 100 receives monitoring impulses from the bottle case sensors 75a, 75b and Qle switching and control means 72a to 72c and 73 in the same manner as described for Fig.9.

As stated for FIG. 9, the explanations are not only valid for two separate accumulation tables 8a and 8b, bottle gripper heads 18 and storage spaces 17a, 17b, but also mutatis mutandis for three or more separate storage tables, bottle gripper heads and crate storage spaces.

The most important work processes of a packer with several bottle gripper heads are shown in a simplified manner in the block diagram according to FIG. 12a (FIGS. 10, 11 and 12). The individual work steps on the one hand of bottle conveying and on the other hand of crate conveying are carried out in succession in a sequential circuit. The mutual influences that occur are indicated by the pulse arrows I ₁ and I ₂ .

spal enweise hintereinander vorgesehen.According to a third embodiment, a horizontally displaceable frame 32 can be provided on a vertically movable support device 31 according to FIG. 13, on which bottle gripper heads 33, which are arranged at right angles next to one another in columns and rows, are provided, each one of the number of bottle crates 19 (FIG .14) bottles 9 to be used have a corresponding number of bottle gripper heads 11, the arrangement patterns of the bottle crate division and the bottle gripper 11 also corresponding to one another. The pattern of the division of the bottle gripper heads 33 corresponds to the right-angled rows and columns, as is also the case 19 in Fig. 14. Separate discharge conveyors 2 to 5 (corresponding to FIGS. 20 to 22) lead from the bottle sorting machine 1 to the bottle jam tables 8a 'to 8d' which are visible in columns next to one another in FIG. As FIG. 13 shows, there are 32 bottle gripper heads 33 on the frame

spal enwei se provided in a row.

As shown in FIG. 14, four such columns AAA, BBB, CCC and DDD are provided, for example, corresponding columns of the gripper heads 33 AAA; BBB, CCC; DDD are assigned. The bottle storage tables 8a 'to 8d' are each intended for as many bottles as can be placed in a bottle case column AAA or BBB- or CCC or DDD. These bottleneck tables 8a 'to 8d' each have separate control devices 14 (not shown), which pass on separate impulses to the machine control when fully stowed. The bottles accumulated on the bottle jam tables 8a 'to 8d' are gripped in a known manner by the bottle grippers 9 of the tightly opened bottle gripper heads 33 and, prior to insertion into the boxes 19, by moving (spreading) the gripper heads 33 belonging to the same gripper head column brought from each other to the distance required for insertion into the boxes 19. However, since different numbers of bottles may have arrived from the sorting machine 1 on the individual bottle stowage tables 8a 'to 8d', the fully stowed bottle stowage tables 8a must be inserted into the associated bottle crates of a column A, B, C or D as soon as possible in order to achieve good hourly performance ? » the packing process must not be waited for until the remaining bottleneck tables are full. On the other hand, as has already been indicated in the previous solutions (Fig. 1, 6, 11), the bottles located on the fully stowed bottleneck tables cannot be detected without interference from the bottles on the not yet fully stowed bottle tables. As shown in FIG. 15, it is therefore provided according to the invention that those bottle gripper heads 33 belonging to a column such as B and C have their associated fla custody tables, such as 8b ', 8c' (Fig. 14) are not yet fully filled, are placed in an upper empty position or remain there until the bottle jam tables 8b 'and 8c' are fully jammed even during a subsequent stroke or working cycle of the carrying device 31 are. It is then possible that the bottleneck tables 8a 'and / or 8d _{' are in} turn not fully filled and the bottle gripper heads 33 belonging to the columns A and D are then brought into their upper empty position. The lifting devices for the support frame 18i are designated 35 and exert a similar lifting or lowering movement in columns on the gripper head support frame 18i. As shown in FIG. 14 (the gripping head carrying device 31 is not shown), the bottle crates 19 to be filled pass in the conveying direction (arrows 36) on a four-lane bottle crate conveyor 21 in the longitudinal direction under the bottle jam tables 8a 'to 8d' to separate stop devices 37a to 37d. As soon as at least three of the bottle crates 19 located on the bottle crate storage spaces 17a to 17d are filled with bottles 9 of the corresponding type A, B, C or D, the relevant stop 24a, b, c or d is opened so that the complete bottle crate column A, B, C or D or more of these bottle crates can reach the separate bottle crate conveyors 22a to 22d separately up to the separate bottle crate stacking stations.

16, as an alternative, the bottle crates to be filled are introduced into the machine at right angles, for example on a three-lane bottle crate conveyor 21. As soon as bottle crate 19 is required in one of the columns A, B, C or D, because after opening of the associated stop 24a, b, c, d the corresponding bottle crate parking spaces 17a, b, c or d have become free, one of the bottle crate slides 38a up to 38d (mechanically or pneumatically moved) a new column, in the present case consisting of three boxes, is pushed onto the empty bottle crate parking spaces and locked again from the associated bottle crate stop 24a to 24d until the crates are loaded. In Fig.16 pneumatic pushers 38 are provided. Because of the large stroke for pushing three bottle crates in each case, it is advisable to use mechanical conveying means, but each slide, be it pneumatic or mechanical, must be controllable separately, because each bottle crate column A, B, C or D must be supplemented separately be. Alternatives are single or double-lane, right-angled transport of the empty bottle crates with separate pushers with a correspondingly shorter pushing stroke.

FIG. 17 shows the end of a single-lane bottle crate conveyor track 22, as they are continued by bottle packing machines according to FIG. 1 or FIG. 2. The bottle crates 19 arrive in a row; There is one type of bottle in each bottle crate 19: in this case either type A or type B. The order of the types is mixed. An operator 39 has to carry out the sorting manually or by means of mechanical aids and feed the crates separately to the bottle crate stacking places 40a, 40b, so that then only bottle crates 19 with the bottle type A and only bottle crates 19 with the bottle type on the transport pallet 41b are located on the transport pallets 41a B are. If there are more than two types of bottles A and _B , several of the transport pallets 41, must be provided and loaded accordingly.

At the end of a single lane bottle crate conveyor, automatic bottle crate sorting devices (full crate control devices) with ejectors and top slide) can be arranged. It is also possible for mechanical aids to be put into operation by operators 39 after visual inspection, which makes it easier to sort and stack the bottle crates. In some cases, the accumulation of sorted bottles at the stacking point can be easily managed manually.

Either the loaded transport pallets 41a, 41b are transported to the empties warehouse or the bottles are sent for other recycling.

In _F ig.18 three Flaschenkastenabförderer 22a to 22c are single-lane or multiple-track well (not shown) to rise to the bottle crate stack positions 40a to 40c. The associated Fig. 19 shows a movable palletizing machine. The box conveyors 22a to 22c have such a capacity for bottle crate 19 that at least one complete pallet load can be accumulated on the bottle crate conveyor in order to be able to load at least one pallet without interruption. To increase capacity, these box conveyors can also be designed as multi-lanes, at least in part. The bottle crates 19 reaching the bottle crate storage locations 40a to 40c are put together to form bottle crate layers 45 by transverse slides 38a to 38c on the collection locations 42a to 42c. The latter are 45 (Fig.19) 44a pushed by the wipers 43a to 43c as a full bottle crate layers on the collection points to 44c, alettiermaschine by the grippers 46 of a movable _P taken 47 and onto the transport pallet 41, which is located on the palletizing station 48 and placed on bottle crate layers 45 already on the pallet 41. Fully loaded pallets arrive from the palletizing locations 48a to 48c via the crossing locations 49a to 49c to the pick-up locations 50a to 50c, from where the pallets 41 either picked up by forklift and driven to the empties warehouse or from where they arrive at a collecting conveyor 51 and are then transported in a mixed sequence to the empties warehouse. The empty pallet conveyor is labeled (Fig. 18) with 52, the empty pallet magazine with 53 and the empty pallet intermediate conveyor with 54a to 54c. The palletizing machine 47 (FIG. 21) has a lower part 47c which can be moved on the rails 47a and 47b below the pick-up points 44a to 44c.

If, for example, the bottle conveyor 22c is gradually loaded with a number of bottle crates 19 that correspond to the number of bottle crates that can be loaded onto a pallet, that would be forty-five bottle crates with five layers of nine bottle crates each, these will initially be on the bottle crate conveyor 22c the quantity of bottle crates present is triggered, for example, by a not-known, known counting device which requests the palletizing machine 47 to the pick-up location 44c. In addition, the pusher 38c begins to assemble bottle crate layers at the collection point 42c. As soon as a bottle crate layer 45 is gathered here, it is pushed over the pusher 43c onto the pick-up location 44c and gripped by the gripper devices 46 of the palletizing machine 47 which has in the meantime moved up and onto a hook-shaped or arcade-shaped path curve onto the pallet 41 located on the palletizing location 48c ( Fig. 19) turned off. New layers are then continuously put together, pushed over and stacked on the palletizing station until the pallet 41 is fully loaded. Then the loaded pallet 41 is transferred via the intersection 49c to the pick-up point 50c by the drivable roller conveyors or the like and from there either picked up by a forklift or further brought to a collecting conveyor 51. An empty pallet 41 is then released from the pallet magazine 53 and reaches the crossing place 49c via the intermediate conveyor pieces 54a to 54c and the crossing places 49a, 49b and is transferred from there at a right angle to the palletizing place 48c. In the meantime, the movable palletizing machine 47 can already be called up to another pick-up location, for example to 44a or 44b, where the corresponding process now takes place with a bottle crate filled with a different type of bottle.

The empty pallets 41 can also be conveyed at a level which is below the level of the pick-up locations 50. However, the palletizing station 48 must then be designed as a lifting table, which receives the empty pallet at a low level, then raises it to the upper level and also conveys the loaded pallet at this level.

Fig. 20 shows the diagram of a closed treatment plant. A known depalletizing and bottle unpacking machine 60 has a loading area 61 for pallets loaded with empties. The empty pallets are fed to the pallet magazine 53 on the empty pallet conveyor 52. The bottle crates are depalletized in layers and at the same time the bottles in the bottle crates are detected and held until the bottle crates on the bottle crate conveyors 21 get out of the combined depalletizing and bottle packaging machine 60 and are fed to the crate washer 62. The discharged through the machine 60, unsorted bottles 9 pass via task 1a in the Scrtiermaschine 1 and from there to separate delivery paths 2, 3 and 4 sorted to _Fl ascheneinpack- machine 7b, where they are sorted to be packed in bottle crates, which on the Kastenfördarbahnen 21 in the right th angle into the bottle packing machine 7b, as shown in Fig.16. The bottle crate conveyors are also designated here with 22a to 22c. It is now possible to accumulate the bottle crates on the bottle crate conveyors 22a to 22c shown in FIG. 20 and, alternatively, to let the crates for a crate layer emerge from one of the conveyor tracks 22a to 22c and on a single bottle crate conveyor 55 (drawn fully drawn) to the collection point 42b and to shift the layers formed there to the (hidden) pick-up location 44b. The movable palletizing machine 47 can then take up one bottle layer and, depending on the type, brings it either to the palletizing station 48a, 48b or 48c. It can be seen that for each layer to be palletized, which is picked up at the pick-up location 44b but must be placed on one of the palletizing locations 48a or 48c, a movement process of the palletizing machine 47 has to be interposed which reduces the performance of the system. Alternatively, the box guide shown in dashed lines in FIG. 20 is provided for the collection points 42a, 42c and the collection points 44a and 44c shown in broken lines, as a result of which the method of operation already described for FIG. 18 largely comes about.

All incoming empties pallets containing unsorted bottle material are fed to the system according to FIG. It then delivers palletized pallets of empties that can be removed or conveyed further.

From Fig. 21 it can be seen that the bottle sorting machine 1 supplies the bottle packing machine 7 with separate bottles via separate bottle conveyors 2, 3, 4, but that at the same time the bottle sorting machine 1 has a further bottle conveyor 5 which is guided from machine to machine within the wet part 63, the cleaning machine 64, the filling and sealing machine 65 and the labeling machine 66 being arranged, for example, within the wet part 63. The bottle conveyor 4 is then guided further to a known bottle packing machine 67, which can be designed similarly to the packing machine according to FIG. 13, but has no division into individual bottle types (columns) and also no separately lifting and lowering support frames 18i.

In the Elascheneinpackmaschine 67, the incoming filled and closed bottles are inserted into empty bottle crates, which arrive on the bottle crate conveyor tracks 21, for example. The bottle crates filled with filled and closed bottles of the uniform main type are brought on the bottle crate conveyors 22d to the collection point 44d of the common bottle crate palletizing machine 47 which can be moved on rails 47a, 47b. With the bottle crate palletizing machine 47, the bottle crates of the main bottle type are then palletized in the filled and closed state and can finally be picked up at the pick-up point 50d by a forklift, etc. With the same palletizing machine 47, however, the sorted out, empty bottles 9, which have been sorted in bottle crates 19 in bottle crates 19, are also loaded onto pallets 41, depending on the case. If a sufficient number of bottle crates 19 are stowed on a conveyor track 22a to 22c, the bottle crate palletizing machine 47 is called to the relevant pick-up location 44a to 44d and carries out a complete pallet loading process at this point without interruption. The fully loaded pallets can be removed according to type at the relevant pallet pick-up point 50a to 50c. For the rest, the palletization is largely the same as explained for Fig. 18. The task of the unsorted bottles to the sorting machine is denoted by 1a.

According to FIG. 22, the unsorted bottles are entered on the bottle feeder with task 1a of the bottle sorting machine 1, which, separated by type, feeds them directly to the bottle packing machine 7 on the bottle removal lines 2, 3, 4, whereas the conveyor 5 the main bottle type to the so-called wet part 63 , consisting eg from the bottle cleaning machine 64, the filling and closing machine 65 and the labeling machine 66, whereupon finished and treated bottles of the main type are likewise fed to the bottle packing machine 7 in the conveyor line 5a. In one and the same packing machine 7, sorted, empty bottles are separated, used according to types in bottle crates, as well as finished, filled bottles of the main type, which were passed in a branched conveyor line 5, 5a through the so-called wet part 63 of the treatment plant. It is thus possible to use a uniform bottle packing machine 7 for normally filled and for sorted out empty bottles, and also to carry out the palletizing with a uniform bottle crate palletizing system 47, as was shown in FIGS. 18 to 21.

Otherwise, the invention is not limited to the palletizing options shown in FIGS. 17 to 22. A corresponding number of individual palletizations can also be provided. Other Palettiermaschinentypen, for example those with so-called sliding plate or column ^p alettierer instead of palletizing machines with grippers, as shown in Figure 19, the application can find. There are also a wide variety of possible variations in the arrangement and selection of the packaging machines 7, 7a, 7b and the box feeder.

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Plant for the further processing of bottles sorted in sorting devices, preferably empty bottles, which are conveyed on the conveyor lines, which are separated according to bottle types or the nature of the same, to the packaging devices, which separate the bottles according to types, and subsequent stacking of the filled bottle boxes, characterized by one Known bottle sorting device (1) with a feed conveyor (1a) for an incoming flow of unsorted bottles (9) and two or more discharge conveyors (2 to 5) for bottle streams sorted according to type and / or nature directly or after passing through intermediate treatment stations (63 to 66 ) downstream bottle packing machine (7, 7a, 7b) with at least two bottle stowage tables / 8a to 8d arranged separately next to each other and a number corresponding to the number and the capacity of the bottle stowage tables (8a to 8d) on the bottle crate conveyor (21) vo see bottle crate storage locations / 17a to 17d) and with at least one single or multiple bottle gripper head (18, 28, 33) assigned to the at least two bottle stowage tables (8a to 8d), or the hook-shaped packing movement (16) between the with a known manner bottle storage table (8a to 8d) and the _F laschenkastenstell- places or is connected (17a to 17d) exporting supporting device (15, 31), the bottle-gripping function of each bottle-gripper head (18, 28, 33) separately is switched on or formed switched off and by a common bottle crate conveyor (22) or by several separate bottle crate conveyors (22a to 22d) assigned to the respective bottle crate storage spaces (17a to 17d), which are continued to the bottle crate stacking spaces (40a to 40d). 2.) Bottle wrapping machine according to claim 1, the gripper head carrying device, which extends across the machine width and is designed as a cross-member, can be moved on a hook-shaped trajectory in the working cycle of the machine, characterized in that two or more (for example four) separate and with different types of bottles A smaller number of bottle gripper heads (18) is assigned to bottle stowage tables (8a to 8d) which can be loaded and the associated bottle crate storage spaces (17a to 17d) than the number of bottle stowage tables (8a to 8d) and at least one of the bottle gripper heads (18) is controlled by a motor-driven drive ( on both sides at least two bottles of storage tables (8a to 8d) or to which is provided on the crossmember (15) supporting points 18c) (26a to 26d) movable, wherein the retrieval of the bottle ^g pure ferkopfes (18) to a stop ( 26a to 26d) by the appealing polling pulse of the first complete with the jammed bottles (9) filled or a privileged bottle jam table (8a to 8d). 3.) Bottle packing machine according to claim 2 with a common bottle crate conveyor, which is continued in the same direction as the bottle crate conveyor from the packing machine, the bottle crate conveyor having a controllable bottle crate allocation device for feeding empty bottle crates to the bottle crate parking spaces, characterized thereby- net that each of the bottle crate parking spaces (17a to 17d) has a separately switchable bottle crate locking device (24a to 24d), that the bottle crate allocation device (23) is provided for the allocation of one bottle crate (15) at a time, that through each, the bottle gripper head (18) responsive polling impulse, the bottle crate allocation device (23) into the dispensing position and the bottle crate locking device (24a to 24d) of the bottle crate storage space (17a to 17d) associated with the retrieving bottle stowage table (8a to 8d) can be switched into the blocking position for the duration of a machine cycle. 4.) Bottle packing machine according to claim 3, characterized in that the bottle crate conveyor (22) is aligned with the bottle crate conveyor (21) and to the row of bottle crate parking spaces (17a to 17d) from the bottle packing machine (7). 5.) Bottle packing machine according to claim 3, characterized in that the bottle crate conveyor (22) parallel and laterally offset by the width of the bottle crate conveyor (21) next to the bottle crate parking spaces (17a to 17d) and linearly guided out of the bottle crimping machine (7) and that Each bottle crate storage space (17a to 17d) has a cradle (25a to 25d) which can be steered and retracted after full filling of a bottle crate (15) on it with bottles (9) in the pushing position towards the crate conveyor (22). 6.) System for further processing of the bottles according to claim 1 with bottle packing machines according to one of claims 3 to 5, characterized in that the Bottle crate conveyor first led to a full crate sorting device (Fig. 17) and the latter is assigned at least one bottle crate stacking place (40a to 40d). 7.) Bottle packing machine according to claim 1, the gripper head support device, which extends over the machine width and is designed as a traverse, can be moved on a hook-shaped trajectory in the work cycle of the machine, characterized in that for each of the separate machine feed tables (8a to 8d) which can be loaded with different types of bottles of the associated bottle crate positions (17a to 17d) on the crossbeam (15), a separate bottle gripper (11) together, but independently of the bottle grippers (11) of the other bottle gripper heads (18) by means of a lifting device (30a, b, associated with the gripper head (18), c) can be lowered and raised by a predetermined fixed distance into a lower gripping or an upper empty position and the control into the gripping or empty position takes place in accordance with the reached or not reached full stowage of the associated bottleneck table (8a to 8d). 8.) Bottle packing machine according to claims 3 or 7 with a bottle case feeder, which has a controllable bottle case allocation device for introducing empty bottle cases into the bottle case positions as well as a corresponding number of separate bottle case conveyors, each continued from the row of _F bottle case positions at right angles, characterized in that that each bottle crate storage space (17a to 17d) has a bottle crate (15) assigned to it after full filling of a crate on it with bottles (9) in the push-over position in the direction of bottle crate conveyors (22a to 22d), bottle crate pushers (25a to 25d) which can be steered back and forth separately, that both the bottle crate allocation device (23) in accordance with a vacant bottle crate parking space (17a to 17d) release position for the inlet of the next, empty bottle crate (15) in the area of the bottle crate pitches (17a to 17d) and the blocking and / or drive means; are the _K asten conveying path in this area in driving state or release position controllable (21a 24a to 24d) such that the bottle crate allocation device (23) allocates an empty bottle crate (15) for each full bottle crate (15) pushed off from a bottle crate storage space (17a to 17d) and the empty bottle crates (15) remaining on the bottle crate storage spaces (17a to 17d) in the direction of the in Unlock the feed direction (21b) at the front and that the bottle crate conveyors (22a to 22nd d) can be continued separately. 9.) Bottle packing machine according to claim 1, the gripper head carrying device of which is designed as a horizontally and vertically movable frame, can be moved on a hook-shaped path curve in the work cycle of the machine and which has on its underside a plurality of bottle gripper heads arranged at right angles next to and behind one another in columns and rows, characterized in that in each case all running in the longitudinal direction of bottle-gripper heads (33) to a mating gripper head gaps (AA; BB; CC; DD) are combined, the latter in each case one, extending separate in the same direction and tab species having a predetermined _F beschickbarer _F la _sc henstautisch ' (8a to 8d) and a corresponding number of separate bottle crate storage spaces (17a to 17d) arranged in the longitudinal direction for in the longitudinal direction Direction separately fed and discharged bottle crate (15) are arranged and that each gripper head column (AA; BB; CC; DD) together, but independently of the adjacent gripper head column (AA; BB; CC; DD) by means of one of the respective gripper head column (AA; BB; CC; DD) associated lifting device (35) can be lowered or raised by a predetermined fixed distance into a lower gripping and an upper empty position and the control in the gripping or empty position according to the reached or not reached full stowage of the associated bottleneck table (8a to 8d). 10.) Bottle packing machine according to claim 9, characterized in that the bottle head spaces (17a to 17d) assigned to a gripper head column (AA; BB; CC; DD) are separated and independent by the common single or multi-lane empty box feeder (21) of the bottle packing machine (7b) are formed from each other by means known per se, such as pushers, stop and switching devices, in alignment or feedable in transverse conveyance and in alignment, in such a way that for each one, with a gripper head column (AA; BB; CC; D_D) filled with bottles (9) and thereafter jointly removed bottle crate group, a corresponding empty crate group is conveyed to the vacant bottle crate parking spaces (17a to 17d) and that the bottle crate conveyors (22a to 22d) are each continued separately. 11.) Plant for further processing of bottles according to claims 1 and 6, characterized in that as bottle crate stacking places (40a to 40d) column or layer formation places such as collection or pick-up places (42, 44) of several known individuals or one common seed, _A = bhol seats (42a-d; 44a-d) to the different collection or movable known Flaschenkastenpalettiermaschinen (47) are provided. 12.) System according to claim 11, characterized in that the single or multi-lane bottle crate conveyors (22a to 22c) leading to the column or layer collecting points (42a to 42c) each have a minimum box storage capacity which corresponds to the loading capacity of a transport pallet (41) . 13.) Plant for further processing of bottles with machines and conveyors for unloading and loading pallets, for unpacking and packing bottles in bottle crates and for sorting bottles by type and / or nature according to one or more of claims 1 to 3 and 7 to 11, characterized in that all the bottle removal tracks (2 to 4) of the bottle sorting machine (1) are separated and have a separate bottle stowage table (8a to 8d) and separate box removal devices (22a to 22d) for each bottle type

Packing machine (7, 7a, 7b) are guided. 14.) Plant for further processing of bottles with machines and conveyors for unloading or loading pallets, for unpacking and packing bottles in bottle crates and for sorting bottles by type and / or nature according to one or more of claims 1 to 3 and 7 to 11, characterized in that a part of the bottle removal tracks (2 to 4) of the bottle sorting device (1) are separated and directly to a bottle packing machine (7a, 8d) and separate box conveyor (22a to 22d) with separate bottle conveyors (22a to 22d). 7a, 7b) and at least one bottle removal conveyor (5) for the main type of bottles from the bottle sorting device (1) directly to the downstream known bottle treatment machines, such as cleaning, filling and closing machines (64, 65, 66) etc., and then packing the bottles (9) into bottle crates (15) and the same is stacked on pallets (41) according to type in a palletizing machine (1) for empty bottles (9) that have been sorted out and for bottle crates (15) loaded with newly filled, full bottles. 15.) Plant for the further treatment of bottles according to claim 14, characterized in that at least one of the storage tables of the bottle packing machine (7a to 8d) having separate bottle reserving tables (8a to 8d) is reserved for the filled and further processed bottles of the main type and directly with the discharge conveyor (5) of the last of the bottle treatment machines (64 to 66) provided, for example the labeling machine (66), and that either separate box conveyors (22a to 22d) are guided to box stacking points (40a to 40d) by the common bottle packing machine (7) for sorted out, empty and for newly filled bottles or that have for the filled bottles and the bottle crates filled with sorted empty bottles run a common crate conveyor (22) to a full crate sorting station and that from here separate bottle crate conveyors are led to the bottle crate stacking locations (40a to 40d).

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