Method for sorting conveyed objects on a conveyor system

A material handling element for merging conveying streams, comprising

• a plurality of incoming conveyor segments,
• at least one coupling for an outgoing conveyor segment, to which the incoming conveyor segments are merged,
• a plurality of retainers configured to stop a conveying flow on the incoming conveyor segment segments, and
• a controller which is configured
• to form a vectorial linkage by vectorially linking conveyed objects with different target sorting sequences, which are vectorially linked according to a respective target sorting sequence in ascending/descending order save the vectorial linkage in a memory of the controller and/or in a memory of a superordinate controller,
• to vectorially link the conveyed objects of different target sorting sequences, which pass the material handling element, according to an actual sequence in ascending/descending order, and to save an additional the vectorial linkage in the already saved vectorial linkage, and
• to release conveyed objects waiting at a material handling element in such a sequence which avoids formation of a ring with a constant sense of direction in the vectorial linkage saved in the memory representing a common vectorial linkage of target sorting sequences and the actual sequence.

A conveyor system, comprising a plurality of material handling elements, a material handling element of the plurality of material handling elements comprising:

• a plurality of incoming conveyor segments,
• at least one coupling for an outgoing conveyor segment , to which the incoming conveyor segments are merged,
• a plurality of retainers configured to stop a conveying flow on the incoming conveyor segments, and
• a controller which is configured
• to form a vectorial linkage by vectorially linking conveyed objects with different target sorting sequences, which are vectorially linked according to a respective target sorting sequence in ascending/descending order and to save the vectorial linkage in a memory of the controller and/or in a memory of a superordinate controller,
• to vectorially link the conveyed objects of different target sorting sequences, which pass the material handling element, according to an actual sequence in ascending/descending order, and to save an additional vectorial linkage in the already saved vectorial linkage, and
• to release conveyed objects waiting at a material handling element in such a sequence which avoids formation of a ring with a constant sense of direction in the vectorial linkage saved in the memory representing a common vectorial linkage of target sorting sequences and the actual sequence,
• wherein at least one coupling for an outgoing conveyor segment of one of the material handling elements is connected directly or indirectly to an incoming conveyor segment of another of the material handling elements.