Greifer fuer eine Einrichtung zur Entnahme von oben offenen, gestapelten Kaesten

The description refers to a device for removing open-topped crates stacked on a pallet, in particular beverage crates, said device comprising a cross-arm extending across the entire width of the pallet on which a gripping device is arranged. The gripping device has gripper heads whose distance is flexibly adjustable in the longitudinal direction of the cross-arm, and each gripper head is equipped with a finger- or lamella-like gripper (5) to fix the crate to be removed and with a detection sensor system to detect the top row of crates. The gripper (5) has gripper jaws which are formed by axially yielding gripping fingers (6) movable in the direction of the gripper force and at least one pressure strip (7) movable in the direction of the gripping force