Loading and/or unloading apparatus

摘要

Loading and unloading apparatus for containers having low stability, by means of which the containers (16) supplied hanging in a row by a supply conveyor can be combined to form a layer and be stacked on a pallet (32) or a layer of the stack can be opened up and the containers (16) be discharged hanging by means of a single-line draw-off conveyor (14), comprising a driven gripper head (12) which is arranged between the supply conveyor (10) and the draw-off conveyor (14) and which is movable essentially horizontally and, via a pallet (32), vertically transversely in relation to their conveying direction, in order to combine individually supplied rows of containers (16) to form a layer and to transfer them onto the pallet or in order to lift off the layer from the pallet and open it up into individual rows, and a push-out device (28) for transferring a row of containers (16) onto the draw-off conveyor (14). The gripper head (12) comprises a plurality of parallel gripper strips (20) which are arranged in this at a variable spacing. The supply conveyor (10) can transfer the containers (16), supplied hanging in a row, directly to the gripper strips (20), and the draw-off conveyor (14) can receive the containers (16) directly from the gripper strips (20). <IMAGE>