Patent ID: 8272495

Claim:
A bottle treatment system, comprising: a first machine with at least one first drive; a second machine with at least one second drive; a bottle transport device having a bottle transport drive and extending between the first machine and the second machine; and a safety unit comprising: a first accessible protective region bound by a first protection, the first machine being disposed in the first accessible protective region, a second accessible protective region bound by a second protection directly adjacent the first protection of the first accessible protective region, the second machine being disposed in the second accessible protective region, the transport device extending between the first and second protections, the first machine and/or the second machine comprising a plurality of driven machine parts, each driven machine part having an individual machine part drive, the first and second protections each comprising at least one entrance disposed at a location corresponding to one of the driven machine parts disposed within the respective protection, and a shut-off device connected to the first drive, the second drive, the bottle transport drive, the individual machine part drives, and with a plurality of access signal transmitters, each of the plurality of access signal transmitters associated with one of the entrances in the protections and, upon an entrance in the first protection being opened, the shut-off device being configured to switch off (a) the bottle transport drive and (b) the first drive and/or one or more of the individual machine part drives disposed in the first protection to enable maintenance, cleaning, part replacement or fault-clearing of the first machine and/or the individual machine parts in the first protection, and upon an entrance in the second protection being opened, the shut-off device being configured to switch off (a) the bottle transport drive and (b) the second drive and/or one or more of the individual machine part drives disposed in the second protection to enable maintenance, cleaning, part replacement or fault-clearing of the second machine and/or the individual machine parts in the second protection.