Apparatus for distributing bottles, especially bottles of gas

摘要

In this apparatus, the bottles 20 are juxtaposed on a plate 10 in N rows of M bottles. The user deposits the empty bottle A at a return point 30. The bottle descends along an inclined plane 50 to an inlet point 40 where a jack 41 pushes it back towards the row. All the bottles 21-27 of the row are thus displaced, so that a full bottle C is brought to an extraction point 60, at the other end of the row. This full bottle next descends along another inclined plane 80 to a delivery point 70 at which the user may withdraw it. The loading of the apparatus is carried out by substituting the plate carrying the empty bottles by a new plate carrying full bottles without handling the individual bottles.