An apparatus is provided for loading water bottles into a water cooler. The
apparatus includes a cradle adapted to assume a horizontal position to
receive a horizontally disposed water bottle that is laterally rolled into
the cradle, a hinge adapted to rotate the cradle and received water bottle
to a vertical position so that a water delivery aperture of the water
bottle is disposed on a bottom side of the water bottle and an energy
absorbing elevator adapted to lower the rotated water bottle into the
water cooler.
