d are only arranged outside the conveyor 32 this greater radius results in a small increase in the overall width of the labeling device in the embodiment of fig6 it is preferable that the labeling stations located within the inner region be those that require minimal intervention by operator personnel accordingly it is particularly advantageous that printing aligning dating or inspection systems be arranged within the inner region fig7 shows a section of an upper endless conveyor 80 that is configured as a segmented conveyor having a plurality of segments 84 connected to one another such that they are able to swivel a neck handling gripper 82 that suspends a bottle shaped container 14 by its neck is mounted on each segment 84 as a holder a rotary drive holds each neck handling gripper 82 on its associated segment 84 such that the neck handling gripper 82 can rotate in this embodiment of a conveyor 80 the bottles are conveyed suspended fig8 shows a conveyor 90 having an upper segmented conveyor 92 and a lower segmented conveyor 94 each of which has segments arranged one above the other each segment 84 of the upper segmented conveyor 92 contains as holders centering tulips 96 for the centering of the top of a bottle 14 meanwhile each segment 84 of the lower segmented conveyor 94.