Conveying and processing system for resin bottles

A conveying and processing system in combination with resin bottles, comprising a filler for filling a resin bottle while it is being rotatively conveyed, the resin bottle having an opening portion which is threaded and also having a neck below the opening portion and including a cylindrical portion and a radially outwardly extending flange which are sequentially formed, an intermediate wheel for receiving the resin bottle from the filler, for gripping the resin bottle at the neck, for suspending the resin bottle so that a bottom of the resin bottle is free of engagement with a support surface and for rotatively conveying it while maintaining it suspended by gripping the neck, and a capper for capping the bottle while rotatively conveying the resin bottle which is received from the intermediate wheel, the filler and the capper each having first support members which support the underside of the radially outwardly extending flange of the resin bottle;

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• the intermediate wheel having a plurality of circumferentially spaced grippers each of which grips the cylindrical portion of the resin bottle and a second support member above each gripper which simultaneously abuts against the opening portion of the resin bottle to thereby stabilize the resin bottle during the rotative conveyance.