Apparatus for the emptying of cases open at the top and filled with empty glass bottles, for example beer bottles or the like

摘要

In order to empty cases 13 open at the top and filled with empty glass bottles 14 quickly and completely automatically, so that the glass material and case material can be fed for separate processing, there is provided at least one horizontally movable rotating and gripping frame 23 which, by means of pneumatically actuated gripping strips 31, receives the filled cases 13 on a feed device 10 and rotates them through 180 DEG , so that the open sides of the filled cases 13 point downwards. So that, during this rotation, the glass bottles 14 are not thrown out of their cases 13 or fall down prematurely, the rotating and gripping frame 23 is provided with pivotable flaps 38 which are opened only when the rotating and gripping frame 23 is positioned above a discharge device 11 for the glass bottles 14. The now empty cases 13' still held in the rotating and gripping frame 23 are then moved to a further discharge device 12 and set down on this, after the pneumatically actuated gripping strips 31 have previously been retracted. <IMAGE>