Garment sorting system and method

A garment sorting system, wherein the system comprises:

• a pairing station to receive a piece of garment hung and paired with a garment hanger by an operator;
• a first transporting conveyor arrangement is arranged to receive the garment hanger from the pairing station, the first transporting conveyor arrangement arranged to transport the garment hanger to an identification and sorting arrangement arranged on a second conveyor arrangement;
• a plurality of sorting rails, each sorting rail of the plurality of sorting rails including a sorting rail address, the garment sorting system configured to store the sorting rail address for each sorting rail of the plurality of sorting rails in a garment identification database;
• a second transporting conveyor arrangement in communication with the first transporting conveyor arrangement, the second transporting conveyor arrangement including:
• the identification and sorting arrangement including an identification device arranged to identify the garment hanger from an identification code on the garment hanger or on the garment for further sorting, the identification and sorting arrangement is arranged to request, for each garment hanger, the sorting rail address from the garment identification database;
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• a plurality of electromechanical sorting interfaces, each electromechanical sorting interface connected to one or more rail of the plurality of sorting rails, each electromechanical sorting interface of the plurality of electromechanical sorting interfaces operable to transport the garment hanger to the sorting rail of the plurality of sorting rails corresponding to the sorting rail address.