Patent ID: 11952255
Assignee: nan
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 2:
3. A filling plant for treating bottles as required, having:
at least one bottle treating device;
a first supply line, which supplies a first bottle type;
at least one further supply line, which supplies a further bottle type, wherein the further bottle type differs in at least one of shape or size from the first bottle type; and
a sorter, which is configured to remove bottles selectively arbitrarily from each of the supply lines, and to line up the bottles arranged in a predetermined order on an infeed section, and to feed the bottles to the bottle treating device in the predetermined order,
wherein the sorter is configured such that the predetermined order is chosen freely, and
wherein the sorter has several movers, which are driven independently and individually,
wherein the at least one bottle treating device is formed as a carousel device,
wherein the filling plant has a removal system for removing the bottles from the at least one bottle treating device,
wherein a number of cycles in the at least one bottle treating device controllable individually for each bottle, and
wherein each mover has a gripper for at least one of removing a bottle from the supply lines or feeding the bottle into the at least one bottle treating device.