Bottle handling apparatus

摘要

A bottle handling apparatus in which bottles being fed continuously to the apparatus are ejected from a feed device into groups of a given size and are loaded as groups into a series of bottle holders on a bottle-handling conveyor of the apparatus by bottle insertion means arranged at a plurality of stages along the conveyor. The different stages of the insertion means causes the bottle groups to be regularly inserted into the bottle holders in a alternate or regularly spaced sequence. The delivery side of the bottle handling conveyor is provided with bottle removal means arranged at a plurality of stages along the feed direction of the conveyor.