System for loading a dishwasher and dishwasher having a system of this kind

A system for loading a commercial conveyor dishwasher, wherein the system has the following:

• a feed conveyor belt for feeding washware to a loading region of the conveyor dishwasher;
• and
• a sorting arrangement for sorting the washware, which is fed to the loading region of the conveyor dishwasher by the feed conveyor belt, in accordance with predefined or predefinable washware groups,
• wherein at least one loading arrangement is associated with the sorting arrangement for the purpose of automatically loading the conveyor dishwasher with washware of one of the predefined or predefinable washware groups;
• wherein the sorting arrangement is designed to sort the washware, which is fed by the feed conveyor belt, in accordance with at least the following washware groups:
• a first washware group which comprises cutlery and/or items of cutlery which is/are produced from a metal;
• a second washware group which comprises trays and tray-like objects which are produced from a plastic material;
• and
• a third washware group which comprises items of crockery produced from porcelain or a porcelain-like material;
• wherein the at least one loading arrangement includes a third loading arrangement associated with the sorting arrangement for the purpose of automatically loading the conveyor dishwasher with washware of the third washware group;
• wherein the third loading arrangement has at least one manipulator which is designed to grip items of washware of the third washware group, to remove said items of washware of the third washware group from the feed conveyor belt and to set down said items of washware of the third washware group in a predefined or predefinable dedicated position;
• wherein the at least one manipulator of the third loading arrangement has a gripper system having at least one set of gripping tongs and/or having at least one suction gripper, for gripping said items of washware of the third washware group;
• wherein the at least one manipulator of the third loading arrangement has a starting position in which the gripper system of the manipulator is arranged above the feed conveyor belt, as seen in a vertical direction, such that items of washware of the third washware group, when conveyed by the feed conveyor belt, are conveyed into the gripping region of the at least one set of gripping tongs and/or into the gripping region of the at least one suction gripper, wherein the starting position of the at least one manipulator of the third loading arrangement is selected in such a way that, when conveyed by the feed conveyor belt, only items of washware of the third washware group, but not items of washware of the first washware group or the second washware group, are conveyed into the gripping region of the at least one set of gripping tongs and/or of the at least one suction gripper.