Sorting apparatus
AssigneeOtto LLC
InventorJurgen Schieleit
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Abstract
A sorting apparatus has at least two sorter cells arranged substantially one above the other. Sorter cells are fitted to a driving unit for moving the sorter cells from a horizontal loading plane to a horizontal discharge plane, both of which are assigned to the sorter cells. A vertical distance between the sorter cells is equal to the vertical distance between two loading planes arranged one above the other and to the vertical distance between the upper and lower plane of at least a first and a second pair of discharge planes arranged one above the other.
Claims6
A sorting apparatus comprising
- at least two sorter cells arranged substantially one above the other, in each case to pick up a product to be sorted from a loading apparatus, and comprising
- driving unit, to which the sorter cells are fitted, for moving the sorter cells from the respective loading apparatus to a discharge plane assigned to the sorter cell,
- wherein the vertical distance between two of the sorter cells arranged one above the other is equal to the vertical distance between the upper and the lower plane of at least a first and a second pair of discharge planes arranged one above the other, and
- wherein the two of the sorter cells can be moved jointly at a constant vertical distance from the level of one pair of planes to the level of another pair of planes.
The sorting apparatus as claimed in one of the preceding claims,
- wherein the lifting height of the sorter cells which can be moved jointly vertically is equal to the vertical distance between two discharge planes arranged one above the other.
The sorting apparatus as claimed in one of the preceding claims,
- wherein the sorter cell has a tilt tray or a transverse belt.
The sorting apparatus as claimed in one of the preceding claims,
- wherein a rack system or chute system has the discharge planes.
The sorting apparatus as claimed in one of the preceding claims, which comprises at least a second driving unit, to which sorter cells are fixed at the level of discharge planes arranged one above another and cannot be moved.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.