Patent ID: 8651260

Claim:
A method of handling containers for beverages, wherein the containers are conveyed along a pre-set conveying line and are brought together with a liquid product and at least one other product capable of being determined with respect to its quantity, in such a way that the liquid product and the at least one other product are supplied to each individual container in a pre-determined supply area of the conveying line, wherein the other product is conveyed to a supply area along a supply line, wherein at least one characteristic state, which is characteristic of a number of the containers supplied, is determined in a detection area which is situated upstream with respect to the supply area in a conveying direction of the containers, wherein a residual quantity of the liquid product or other product to be supplied, which has still to be supplied until a change of product into the pre-determined supply area, is determined in a manner dependent upon said at least one characteristic state, and the at least one other product is selected from the group consisting of a container closure, a label, a foil, a cardboard blank, an intermediate layer, and a pallet.