Container-handling machine

A machine of the rotating type for processing containers, said machine comprising:

• a machine frame;
• a rotor mounted on said machine frame so as to be rotatable about a vertical machine axis and rotatably driveable about said machine axis,
• a plurality of processing positions at the rotor, each of which includes:
• a ring-shaped enclosure that concentrically surrounds the machine axis, said enclosure or a housing thereof, forming an interior space that is defined towards a surrounding area and that can be impinged upon with a sterile gaseous and/or vaporous medium, said enclosure or wall portions forming said housing, being provided exclusively at said rotor, said interior space being connected by a ring-transferring means to a source of the sterile gaseous and/or vaporous medium that does not rotate with the rotor, and
• one or more functional elements for processing the containers, said one or more functional elements extending into the interior space at least by way of a part region that interacts with the containers and in which the containers are accommodated by way of a mouth region during the processing.