FR2561619A1 - Automatic large-capacity bottle palletising method and installation implementing this method - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to an automatic large-capacity bottle palletising installation. The installation comprises a conveying device 18 provided with a drive system 32 for the displacement of the crate or crates 10 filled with empty bottles 161 to 163, an unloading device 66, 74 intended to depalletise, in one operation, all of the empty bottles contained in the crate in a direction perpendicular to the direction of displacement of the conveying device, a box section 84 intended to receive the said depalletised bottles, the said box section being mounted such that it tips in order to bring the bottles from a horizontal position into a substantially vertical position, a loading device 102, 108 acting in the axis of the unloading device and located on the other side from the latter with respect to the box section, and a drive system 164 allowing the transfer of the crate or crates loaded with full bottles to the removing station located at the end of the conveying device.

Description

 Automatic palletizing process for large capacity bottles and installation for the implementation of this process.

 The present invention relates to an automatic palletizing process for large capacity cylinders, and more particularly, but not exclusively, for liquefied propane gas cylinders.

 The filling and palletizing of such bottles were formerly entirely manual and therefore required significant labor, as well as great physical efforts on the part of the operators responsible for these operations. Of course, the rate of filling and palletizing remained extremely low.

 In order to adapt this work to the technical development of filling centers, several mechanization processes have been developed in the past. Thus, before, the bottles were placed manually in a file on a conveyor which brought them one by one to the filling station where they were taken up by hand.

This process therefore only allows one bottle to be treated at a time.

 Another process made it possible to vertically palletize bottles in racks of 25 or 35 units. the rack has one side of a conveyor and a first pusher is provided to transfer a row of empty bottles from the rack to the conveyor. After filling, a second pusher brings the row of full bottles from the conveyor to an empty rack. However, this process corresponds to a type of rack which is not suitable for dispensing a small number of bottles.

 The present invention relates to a method for automating the operations of loading and unloading bottles, and consequently, to reduce the workload, while ensuring a relatively high filling rate and increased safety for the operator.

 The palletizing process according to the invention applies to large capacity bottles placed in the supine position on at least one layer in a rack of parallelepiped shape, two opposite lateral faces of which can be opened, said process being characterized in that it consists in driving by means of a conveyor device, at least one rack loaded with empty bottles, to immobilize the rack at an unloading station, to transfer all the bottles in a block perpendicular to the direction of movement of the conveyor device for passing them through a tilting box, the bottles keeping their relative positions, and the rack being kept stationary at the unloading station, pivoting the box so as to bring the bottles into a substantially vertical position, then manually unloading the box and drive the bottles to the filling station, replace the full bottles in the vertigo position r the box, to tilt the latter to its horizontal position, to transfer all the full bottles from the box to the rack which is waiting at the unloading station and enter the rack loaded with full bottles towards a removal station.

 In an advantageous embodiment, the method according to the invention consists in driving by means of the conveyor device at least two stacked racks, loaded with empty bottles, in immobilizing the racks at the unloading station, in transferring the whole all the bottles from the upper rack to the tilting box, the racks remaining on standby at the unloading station, to carry out the following operations in accordance with the previous paragraph until the overall transfer of full bottles in the upper rack waiting at the unloading station and to be repeated on the bottles in the lower rack the same operations as those carried out on the bottles in the upper rack.

 In another alternative embodiment, the method is applied to the palletization of bottles arranged in a crate in the lying position, on at least one layer of parallel longitudinal bottles, at least two transverse bottles being arranged in the lying position, perpendicular to said layer and each placed at one end of said layer, characterized in that it consists in placing the rack (s) on the conveying device, in transferring the assembly of all the bottles into the tilting box, in extracting the empty transverse bottles from the box before the tilting of the latter in a vertical position, by moving them along their axis, to tilt the box to its vertical position, to manually unload the longitudinal bottles, to fill all the bottles, to refill the full longitudinal bottles in the box, to tilt the latter back to its horizontal position, to refill the full transverse bottles in the e box, to transfer all the bottles from the box to the rack which is waiting at the unloading station and to train the rack loaded with full bottles to the picking station.

 We enter by longitudinal bottles, those which are perpendicular to the sides of the rack which can be opened.

 I, the invention also relates to an installation for palletizing bottles for the implementation of this process.

In the case of processing of non-overlapping lockers, the installation includes:
- a conveying device provided with a centering system for moving the rack loaded with empty bottles,
an unloading device intended to depalletize all the empty bottles contained in the rack in a block, in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the conveying device,
a box intended to receive said depalletized bottles, said box being tilted to bring the bottles from a horizontal position to a substantially vertical position,
a loading device located in the axis of the unloading device and opposite it relative to the box, and
- a drive system allowing the rack loaded with full bottles to be transferred to the removal station located at the end of the conveying device.

 In the case of the treatment of stacked lockers, the installation further comprises, interposed in the path of the conveyor device, a lifting table which, by adjusting its height1 is capable of successively bringing the stacked lockers to the level of the unloading device. and the loading device.

 According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, each of the unloading and loading devices consists of a pusher mounted rolling horizontally on a frame and actuated by a jack, said plungers being movable at the bottom layer of bottles in the rack treat. Said actuating cylinders for the pushers can be mounted above the lifting table and the box and be entirely contained in the size of the latter.

 In a preferred embodiment, the conveying device comprises, one after the other, a supply station for empty bottle racks, a waiting station, a third station constituted by the lifting table and a station. for removing racks of full bottles, each of said stations having an area equal to that of a rack.

 The automation of the various operations is ensured by remote control devices as well as by sequencers. Sequencers can be used, for example, which govern the commands for conveying, leveling the racks, the rack unloading cycle, the box unloading and box loading cycle and the rack loading cycle.

The invention relates to reading the description of a particular embodiment with reference to the appended drawings in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a rack of liquefied propane gas cylinders
Figure 2 is a general elevational view of the installation according to the invention;
Figure 3 is a plan view of the installation of Figure 2, the lockers of the second and fourth stations have not been shown for clarity of the drawing
Figure 4 is a sectional view along line IV-IV of Figure 3; and
Figure 5 is an elevational view in the direction of the arrow
A in Figure 3.

 With reference first to Figure 1, the liquefied gas bottles are arranged in the supine position inside a rack 10 in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, two opposite side faces 12, 14 can be opened. In Figure 1, the walls which seal these faces have not been shown during storage and transport. A first layer of five longitudinal bottles 16i is placed on the floor 17 of the rack, two transverse bottles 162 are placed at the ends of said layer and a second layer of four bottles 163 are staggered on the bottles of the first layer. But it is obvious that the rack can contain a number of bottles other than eleven, arranged in one or more layers. For example, two transverse bottles 162 superimposed can be placed at each end of the rack.

 The bottle palletizing installation 16 will now be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5. It comprises a conveyor 18 with four stations arranged linearly one after the other, namely a supply station 20, a waiting station 22, a lifting table 24 integrated in the conveyor and a removal station 26, each of said stations having substantially the same surface as the base surface of a rack 10.

The racks 10 are deposited at the supply station 20 in a position such that the longitudinal bottles 161 and 163 are oriented transversely relative to the direction of movement.
F racks, as can be seen in Figures 2 and 3. The side of the rack through which the bottles will be unloaded is open at this time, the other side remaining closed. On the side of the open face, the bottle is held during the transfer by a mn device shown. One locker at a time can be dropped off at the supply station, but to reduce the rotation of handling equipment it is preferable, as shown in Figure 2, to drop two stacked lockers each time.

 The conveyor comprises over its entire length two rows of rollers 28 mounted idly rotating about axes transverse to the direction of movement F. The axes of the rollers of each row rotate in bearings formed in the wings of a support beam 30 ( figure 3).

 the lockers can be moved on the conveyor by means of a transfer mechanism of any known type. In the embodiment shown in Figures 2 and 3, this mechanism consists of a cable actuator 32 mounted under the supply and waiting stations 20 and 22. This actuator comprises a piston 34 movable in a cylinder 36 fixed horizontally along the axis of the conveyor. The piston is rigidly secured to a cable 38 which is wound, at the ends of the cylinder, around two pulleys 40, 42 and the ends of which are fixed on a stirrup 44 supported on two rolling rails 46, 48 (FIG. 3) and on which is pivotally mounted about an axis 50, a drive arm 52 provided on its upper face with a notch 53 limited by a claw 55. The arm 52 is non-inclined and, when the stirrup 44 is in its extreme position, on the left in FIG. 2, the notch 53 comes to fit on a crosspiece 54 located on the front edge of the floor of the lower compartment 10 (also voice in FIG. 1) which is in position at the supply station 20 and possibly on a cross member 54 ′ of a rack in the standby position at station 22.

 The arm 52 can be released from said crosspieces 54 and 54 '(when the stirrup 44 has arrived at its extreme right position in FIG. 2) by a mechanism comprising a horizontal guide rail 56 on which a roller 58 carried by the lower end of the arm 52, said rail being able to be lifted parallel to itself in a vertical plane, by means of jacks 60, 62. In its high position, the rail brings the arm into a practically horizontal position, thus releasing the latter ci of sleepers 54 and 54 '. The sour cherry 55 serves to prevent the lockers from being dragged by glertie on the lifting table 24.

 The lifting table is mounted on a base 64 adjustable in height, so as to be able to position the upper rack or the lower rack in the axis of sorting unloading device.

 The latter is constituted by a horizontal jack 66 mounted on a frame 68 which comprises two horizontal and parallel support rails 70 fixed on columns 72. The jack rod carries at its end a horizontal push bar 74 provided with pads 76 of soft material , for example rubber, which are capable of coming to bear against a transverse bottle 162 of the rack without it being necessary to open the face of the rack located on the side of the push bar. The push bar 74 is integral with two longitudinal pushers 80 mounted longitudinally rolling on rollers 82 carried by the rails 70. The jack is pivotally mounted around a horizontal transverse axis 78.

 The unloading device is capable of depalletizing en bloc all the bottles in a rack and of transferring them into a receiving box 84, shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. The box comprises at its ends two parallel roller paths 88, 94 intended to serve as support respectively for the transverse bottles 162, and a central compartment 90 included between the roller paths for receiving the nine longitudinal bottles 161, 163. The rollers 88 and 94 as well as the floor of the central compartment are substantially at the same level as the floor of the rack 10 which is positioned opposite the unloading device. To facilitate the transport of the bottles between the rack 10 and the box 84, the latter is provided, along its entry edge with a roller 96.

 To transfer the bottles after filling of the box 84 to the rack 10, there is provided a loading device mounted on a gantry which comprises two horizontal and parallel guide rails 98 mounted on columns 100. The loading device consists of a jack 102 disposed horizontally between the two rails 98 and supported by the latter by means of a transverse pin 104 which projects substantially in the middle of its length. To the rod 106 of the jack 1.02 is fixed a loading pusher 108 mounted rolling on the rails 98 by means of rollers 110. The pusher comprises two vertical flasks 112 which hang down and which are connected, at the level of the transverse bottles of the box 84 by a push bar 114 provided with support pads 116.

 Such a loading device is remarkable in that it makes it possible to significantly reduce the size of the installation. In fact, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the jack 102 is entirely contained in the seating of the lifting table 24 and the box 84 and the pusher 108 behaves like a return which makes it possible to transmit the forces from the jack to the bottles which are arranged under the cylinder. On the contrary, if a conventional jack was used, it should be mounted opposite the rack 10 relative to the box 84 in FIG. 4.

The size of the installation would therefore be increased by the length of the jack 102.

 Of course, the unloading cylinder 66 and the pushers 80 can also be mounted above the lifting table 24 and the box 84 provided that the locker is suitable for the passage of the pushbutton. The size of the installation would then be reduced by the entire surface that these elements occupy in FIG. 3.

 In another alternative embodiment, the racks can remain at the same level, while the loading and unloading devices can be adjusted in height to come in the axis of the upper rack or the lower rack. In this way, the lifting table can be eliminated.

 The box 84 can be moved parallel to the conveyor in order to clear the scanning area of the loading device and thus ensure the operator easy and safe gripping of the bottles. To this end, the box 84 is mounted rolling by means of rollers 118 on a horizontal table 120 extending along the conveyor 18 (Figures 3 to 5). The box is driven on this table by a jack, for example a cable jack 122. The cable 124 of the jack 122 is wound around two pulleys 126, 128 and is fixed by its ends to a pushing piece 130 which is supported on the bottom of the box.

 The table 120 is driven in a rotational movement of approximately 800, bringing the bottles which are in place in the box 84 from the horizontal position shown in solid lines in FIG. 4 to a quasi-vertical position, shown in dashed lines. The table is provided for this, in the middle of its transverse sides, which are perpendicular to the direction F of movement of the boxes on the conveyor, sections of shafts 132 mounted journalled in bearings 134 fixed on a frame 136. The tilting of the table from one position to the other is controlled by two jacks 138, 140 (Figure 5) articulated on the table and on the frame.

 In the quasi-vertical position of the table, the longitudinal bottles 161 and 163 rest by their bottom on a vertical retaining wall 142 (Figure 4 and see also Figures 3 and 5) fixed on the upper face of the table.

 Before the table 120 tilts to its quasi-vertical position, the transverse bottles 162 are extracted individually from the box 84 by means of a handling device 144 (FIGS. 3 and 5) which comprises a carriage 145 mounted on rollers 146, which can roll on two guide rails 148, 150 (FIG. 3) arranged along the tilting table 120. On the carriage 145 is articulated, by a horizontal axis 154, a break 156 provided with rollers 158, and which can be tilted d 'a substantially vertical position mounted in Figure 5 in solid lines, in a horizontal position shown in dashed lines, by means of a jack 160 articulated on the carriage 145 and on the ramp 156. In its horizontal position, the ramp is at the same level as the bottles of the box before the tilting of the latter. The ramp ends at its end furthest from the box by a heel 162 on which the transverse bottle to be unloaded or loaded can rest.

 Naturally, it is possible to use two handling devices 144 mounted at a fixed post opposite the transverse bottles.

 The treated lockers are transferred from the lifting table 24 to the removal station 26 (FIGS. 2 and 3) by a transfer mechanism constituted for example by a cable actuator 164. The cable 166 of the actuator is wound around two pulleys 168 , 170 and is fixed at its ends to a rolling carriage 172. The latter carries a drive stop 174 intended to bear on the cross member 54 of the rack 10. The stop 174 is retractable when the carriage moves in the opposite direction at arrow F in Figure 2.

 The installation also includes a safety platform 176 (FIGS. 3 to 5) where the presence of an operator when he loads or unloads the box 84 neutralizes certain movements of the installation (those of the tilting table 120 for example ) for security reasons.

 Finally, the installation includes a plurality of pneumatic remote controls and sequencers. The sequencer control buttons and those controlling the start and stop of the cycle are grouped together on a console 178.

 The operation of the installation according to the invention will now be described: one or two stacked compartments 10 are deposited by a handling trolley at the supply station 20 of the conveyor 18 (FIG. 2). The operator in charge of operating the installation can order the transfer of the two superimposed lockers to the waiting station 22 if the latter is free. This transfer is carried out by the carriage 44 whose arm 52 bears on the cross member 54 of the lower rack 10 by its notch 53 or on adjacent cross members of two lower lockers in the case where the lockers are in position at the waiting station 22 The carriage 44 is driven to the right in FIG. 2 by the cable actuator 32 over a distance equal to the length of a rack. At the end of the race, the two racks 10 are exactly positioned in the waiting station 22. The racks are then locked in this position, while the carriage 44 returns to its initial position after the arm 52 has been retracted. To this end, the jacks 60, 62 raise the bar 56 which, in its movement, pivots the arm 52 about its axis 50 in the clockwise direction in FIG. 2.

 If the lifting table 24 is not provided with lockers, the operator can order a new transfer to bring the lockers from the waiting station to the lifting table. For this, he orders a second transfer of the lockers from the waiting station to the lifting table.

 If a single rack 10 has been deposited on the lifting table 24, a device detects the absence of the upper rack and then triggers an operating cycle of the lifting table for a single rack. Otherwise, a two-bin cycle is programmed. In the latter case, the upper rack is located at the unloading device 68, while in the first case, the table must be raised to bring the lower rack to said level.

We will assume in what follows that we have to fill the empty bottles with two stacked racks. At this stage of operation, all operations will be automatic until the vertical positioning of the bottles 16 until the transverse bottles are drawn 162. For this, the operator programs the unloading cycle which includes the following five operations which are linked automatically:
1.- By shortening the jack 102 (Figures 2 and 3) of the loading device, the pusher 108 of the latter is brought into abutment, by means of its pads 116, against the transverse bottle 162 which is located on the table lifting, opposite the oe unloading device.

 2. The latter is then actuated and pushes, via one other transverse bottle 162, all of the bottles out of the rack 10, which is retained on the lifting table. The loading pusher 108 is pushed back by the displacement of the bottles, which has the effect of keeping the arrangement of the bottles unchanged until they are transferred to the box 84.

 On the latter, the transverse bottles 162 are placed on the rollers 88 and 94, while the longitudinal bottles 161, 163 are housed in the central compartment 90.

 3.- The box 84 is then driven with its loading in the direction of the arrow f in FIG. 3 on the table 120, by the cable jack 122. In its new position, the box is released from the zone of movement of the loading button 108.

 4.- The operator can then manually extract the two transverse bottles 162 by moving them on the rollers 88 and 94, then on the handling device 144. For this purpose, the latter is brought successively in front of each of the transverse bottles 162 in making it roll on the guide rails 148, 150 and, by actuation of the jack 160 (FIG. 5), the ramp 156 of the extraction device is positioned horizontally as shown in FIG. 5 in dashed lines. Once the transverse bottle has been placed on the fracture 156, it is tilted towards its substantially vertical position shown in solid lines in FIG. 5.

The operator can then move the bottle by rolling it on its bottom, to a conveyor which leads it to the filling station.

 5.- After extraction of the two transverse bottles, the table 120 is tilted by means of the jack 140 to its substantially vertical position shown in dashed lines in FIG. 4.

The longitudinal bottles then come to bear on the plate 142, and the operator can manually remove the bottles and place them on the conveyor which leads them to the filling station.

the mechanical members which enabled the unloading of a rack 10 then occupy the following positions
the lifting table 24 has kept its level with the empty rack 10,
- the unloading pusher 80, in the extended position, occupies the entire length of the rack.

 - the box 84 is tilted and emptied of its bottles.

The operator then programs the loading cycle of the upper compartment which will now be described.
The longitudinal bottles full of liquefied gas to be put back in the rack, are placed manually and vertically on the box 84. The operator then controls the rotation of the table
J tilting 120 which stops in a horizontal position. The two full transverse bottles 162 are then loaded by means of the tilting device 144.

 The box being fully loaded, the operator programs the continuation of the cycle. The box 84 is placed in the axis of loading pusher 108, which being actuated, causes the introduction of one set of bottles in the rack, while releasing the unloading pusher 80 which served to keep unchanged the relative position of the bottles during this transfer.

 The bottles returned to the upper rack cause the lifting table 24 to rise, for the treatment of the lower rack, according to the sequence previously described. When the two racks have received their load of full bottles, the lifting table returns to its low position. The lockers are then automatically transferred to the removal station 26, if the latter is free, the transfer is ensured by the carriage 172 which is actuated by the target jack 164.

It will be noted from this description of the operation of the installation that it allows
- to do only loading,
- to only unload,
- to unload followed by loading and vice versa.

 As already specified, the safety and reliability of the various cycles are increased by the use of pneumatic remote control devices as well as sequencers.

 Cycle progression can be done either manually or automatically. With the installation according to the invention, it is possible to unload 200 empty bottles and load 200 full bottles per hour.

Claims (19)

 1.- Method of automatic palletizing of large capacity bottles, and more particularly of liquefied gas bottles, in which the bottles are placed in the supine position on at least one layer in a rack of parallelepiped shape of which two opposite lateral faces can be opened , characterized in that it consists in driving by means of a conveying device (18), at least one rack (10) loaded with empty bottles (16), to immobilize the rack at an unloading station, transferring all the bottles in a block perpendicular to the direction (F) of movement of the conveying device in order to pass them towards a tilting box (84), the bottles keeping their relative positions and the rack (10) being kept immobile at unloading station, pivoting the box (84) so as to bring the bottles into a substantially vertical position, then manually unloading the box and driving the bottles ju if at the filling station, replace the full bottles in a vertical position on the box, return the latter to its horizontal position, transfer all the full bottles from the box (84) to the rack (10) which is waiting at the unloading station and helping the rack loaded with full bottles to a removal station (26).  2.- Method according to claim 1, characterized in that it consists in driving by means of the conveying device (18) at least two stacked racks (10) loaded with empty bottles (16), to immobilize the racks at the unloading station, to transfer all the bottles from the upper rack to the tilting box (84) in a block, the racks remaining waiting at the unloading station, to carry out the following operations in accordance with claim 1 until the overall transfer of the full bottles in the upper rack which is waiting at the unloading station and repeating on the bottles in the lower rack the same operations as those carried out on the bottles in the upper rack.  3.- Method according to claim 1, characterized in that it consists in driving by means of the conveying device (18) at least two stacked racks (10) loaded with empty bottles (16), to immobilize the racks at the unloading station, to transfer all the bottles from the upper rack to the tilting box (84) in a block, the boxes remaining waiting at the unloading station, to carry out the following operations in accordance with claim 1 until the box is unloaded, in the same way, unload the lower rack until the container is unloaded, then reload the lower rack and then the upper rack with full bottles, each time loading the box in the vertical position with full bottles, bringing the box back towards its horizontal position, and by transferring all the bottles to the lower or upper rack.  4.- Method according to one of claims 2 and 3, characterized in that the unloading station is at a fixed height and the stacked racks are raised until bringing the rack to be treated at the unloading station.  5.- Method according to one of claims 2 and 3, characterized in that the stacked compartments are at a fixed height, and the unloading station is adjusted in height to come opposite the bin to be treated.  6.- Method according to one of the preceding claims, for the palletization of bottles arranged in a rack in the supine position, on at least one layer of parallel longitudinal bottles (161, 163), at least two transverse bottles (162) being arranged in the lying position, perpendicular to said layer and each placed at one end of said layer, characterized in that it consists in placing the rack (s) (10) on the conveying device (18) so that the transverse bottles are oriented in the direction of movement (F) of the conveying device, to extract the empty transverse bottles (162) from the box (84) before tilting the latter in the vertical position, by moving them along their axis, to tilt the box to its position vertical, to manually unload the longitudinal bottles, to fill all the bottles, to refill the full longitudinal bottles in the box9 to tilt the latter back to its own position. horizontal position, to reload the full transverse bottles in the box, to transfer all the bottles from the box to the rack which is waiting at the unloading station and to drive the rack loaded with full bottles to the removal station.  7.- Installation for the implementation of the method according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises  - a conveying device (18) provided with a drive system (32) for moving the rack or racks loaded with empty bottles,  - an unloading device (66, 74) intended for depalletizing en bloc the assembly of empty bottles contained in the rack, in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of the conveying device,  a box (84) intended to receive said depalletized bottles, said box being pivotally mounted to bring the bottles from a horizontal position to a substantially vertical position,  - a loading device (102, 108) acting in the axis of the unloading device and located opposite it relative to the box, and  - A drive system (164) for transferring the rack (s) loaded with full bottles to the removal station located at the end of the conveying device.  8.- Installation for implementing the method according to one of claims 2 and 6, characterized in that in the path of the conveying device is interposed a lifting table (24) which, by adjusting its height, is susceptible successively bringing the superimposed lockers (10) to the level of the unloading device and the loading device.  9.- Installation according to one of claims 7 and 8, characterized in that each of the unloading and loading devices comprises a pusher (74; 114) mounted rolling horizontally on a frame (68; 98) and actuated by a jack (66; 102), said pushers (74; 114) being movable at the level of the lower layer of bottles of the crate to be treated.  10.- Installation according to claim 9, characterized in that the jacks (66, 102) for actuating the pushers (74, 108) of the unloading and loading devices are mounted above the lifting table (24) and of the box (84) and are entirely contained in the size of the latter.  11.- Installation according to one of claims 7 to 10, characterized in that the box comprises on its input edge, a roller (96) facilitating the introduction of the bottles into the box or their removal from the latter.  12.- Installation according to one of claims 7 to 11, characterized in that the box (84) comprises, for each of the transverse bottles (162) a path of rollers (88, 94) for moving the latter along their axis .  13.- Installation according to one of claims 7 to 12, characterized in that the box is movable in translation from a posi.tion where it is in the field of action of the unloading and loading devices at a position where it is clear from said devices.  14.- Installation according to one of claims 7 to 13, characterized in that the box is mounted rolling on a table (120) pivotally mounted around a horizontal axis, so as to bring the longitudinal bottles (16î, 163) from a lying position to a substantially vertical position and vice versa.  15.- Installation according to claim 14, characterized in that the tilting table (120) is provided with a vertical support plate (142) on which the longitudinal bottles (161, 163) are supported by their bottom when the table is in a substantially vertical position.  16.- Installation according to one of claims 7 to 15, characterized in that the trSrsales bottles are (162) are extracted from the box by means of a handling device (144) mounted movably on guide rails (148, 150) perpendicular to the direction of said transverse bottles and which comprises a tilting ramp (156) provided with a roller track (158) and which can be pivoted so as to bring the transverse bottles from a horizontal position to a substantially vertical position and vice versa.  17.- Installation according to one of claims 7 to 16, characterized in that the conveying device comprises, one after the other, a supply station (20) in racks loaded with empty bottles, a station waiting (22), a third station consisting of the lifting table (24) and a removal station (26) of the racks loaded with full bottles, each of said stations having an area equal to that of a rack.  18.- Installation according to one of claims 7 to 17, characterized in that the drive systems (32; 164) of the compartments on the conveyor device each consist of a pivoting stop (52, 174) which, in a first position, is supported on a crosspiece (54) located at the front of the floor of the crate (10), and, in a second position is released relative to said crosspiece, said stop being driven in translation by a jack, by example of the chable type (36; 164).  19.- Installation according to claim 18, characterized in that said stop (52) is constituted by an articulated arm on a carriage (44) fixed on the cable (38) of the jack, around one axis (50) passing through an intermediate point of its length, said arm being provided with a notch (53) and normally having an inclined position for which the notch fits around the crosspiece (54) of the crate (10), 1? lower end of the arm permanently supported on a horizontal rail (56) which can be brought to a low position for which the notch of the arm cooperates with the crosspiece (54) and a high pure position which the notch is released from said crosses.