Plant for packing PVC bottles or other similar containers in packs by applying band-like bindings called also as straps

A plant for packing packs comprising a plurality of bottles or other containers with straps, comprising:

• a conveyor feeding the bottles, moved by a motor;
• devices that assemble and prearrange a flow of the bottles along said conveyor to form bottle groups with a number of bottles and with a relative position of the bottles of each group identical to the relative position of a final pack;
• a first station laying down the bottles of the bottle groups that turns over the bottles of each group from a position where the bottles are upright to a position where the bottles are laid down with axes of the bottles parallel to a feed direction, while maintaining together without changing the relative position of the bottles of each group with respect to each other when laying down;
• a strapping station where, to the groups of a sequence of the bottle groups in a laid down position, one or more straps are applied extending on planes perpendicular to the axes of the bottles and vertical or transverse to the feed direction of the bottle groups;
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• a second station turning over the bottle groups to which said one or more straps have been applied from the laid down position to the upright position.