Take-over appliance for a sorting facility and a sorting facility

A take-over appliance for a sorting facility for taking over piece goods which at a delivery location are delivered from a sorting conveyor, comprising a buffer device which forms a storage space, for an intermediate storing or buffering of delivered piece goods, wherein a size of the storage space of the buffer device can be adjusted during operation of the sorting facility,

• wherein
• the buffer device comprises a flexible, two-dimensional rest element which, for the intermediate storing of piece goods, forms a receiving trough for the piece goods, said receiving trough delimiting the storage space to a bottom, and the buffer device comprises an adjusting mechanism for adjusting a depth of the receiving trough for adjusting the size of the storage space,
• wherein the adjusting mechanism is configured to change a length of the rest element between a trough entry and a trough exit of the receiving trough,
• wherein the adjusting mechanism comprises a storage configuration for storing a length section of the rest element, and
• wherein the storage configuration for dynamic intermediate storing of the length section of the rest element comprises one of the following storage devices:
• a winding-up and unwinding body for winding up and unwinding the length section of the rest element;
• a loop store;
• dancer rollers.