rotor 5 19 formed by the rotor element 5 and the annular upper support element 19 for this purpose each actuating element 23 has for example a pneumatically hydraulically or electrically operable actuator e g at least one corresponding hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder or an electromotive or electromagnetic drive through the elimination of the lifting cam 10 and the control rollers 16 that interact with it the disc like or spoked wheel like bearing element 11 a at the upper end of the pillar 4 serves solely to support and carry the annular upper support element 19 with the bearing 12 unlike the representation of fig3 with the fifth container treatment machine 1 d the second drive 13 for the annular upper support element 19 is provided on the machine frame 3 in such a way that the pinion 13 1 interacts with gearing on the outside of the annular upper support element 19 otherwise the fifth container treatment machine 1 d is the same as the third container treatment machine 1 b fig6 shows as a further embodiment a sixth container treatment machine 1 e whose only essential difference from the fifth container treatment machine 1 d is that a common drive 24 is provided for the rotor elements 5 and the annular upper support element 19 this common drive 24 drives both the rotor elements 5 and the.