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AssigneeVanderlande Industries B.V.
InventorsHans Alphonsius Maria Steijaert, Raymond Martijn Brouwer-Van Os, Thijs Martinus Hendrikus Pennings
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The invention provides a device for sorting products. The facility includes sorting units that each are provided with a support surface and transport means for endless movement transport route transporting the sorting units. The sorting units include sorting means for the sideways at a desired sorting location of the supporting surface of the relevant one moving the sorting unit away from a product, and control means for controlling the sorting device. The device further comprises stationary removing means wherein the control means are further adapted to supply control signals to the removing means for, due to the effectiveness of the removal means, at a removal location of an associated one sorting unit removes any products that cannot pass through the associated sorting equipment sorting unit have been moved off and have been unintentionally left on a sorting unit. The invention provides further removing means for use in such a device as well as a method for use of such a device.
A sorting device for sorting products, comprising a conveyor having a plurality of sorting units and a conveying device for conveying the sorting units along an endless conveying path, wherein each of the sorting units includes a support surface for supporting products to be sorted and is designed to move a product sideways off from the support surface of a sorting unit of the plurality of sorting units at a desired sorting location of a number of sorting locations, the plurality of sorting units comprising successive sorting units between which a connecting portion is present, the sorting device further comprising a control system which is designed to emit control signals to the sorting units to move products, which are supplied to the sorting units for sorting, off from the support surface of the respective sorting units at desired sorting locations of the number of sorting locations, wherein the sorting device further includes a removal device which is arranged along the endless conveying path, wherein the control system is further designed to emit control signals to the removal device to remove, due to operation of the removal device, a product on the connecting portion from the conveyor at a removal location,
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