Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Entnahme von oben offenen gestapelten Kaesten

A device is presented for the removal of crates (11), in particular bottle crates, open at the top and stacked on a pallet (2). The device has a gripper (1) and a conveyor to transport the crates (11) removed from the pallet. The gripper (1) is equipped with a cross arm (3) extending across the entire width of the pallet (2). Grippers (4) are arranged on the cross arm (3). Each gripper head (4) is equipped with an active segmented or finger-type gripper (5) to grip the crate (11) to be raised.