Waste paper sorting conveyor for sorting waste paper form waste cardboard

A waste paper sorting conveyor for sorting waste paper from waste cardboard, comprising a row of rotatable, driven shafts mutually spaced in a conveying direction and each extending transversely to said conveying direction, said shafts each carrying a row of radially extending impellers for intermittently urging material on the sorting conveyor upward and in the conveying direction, the impellers of each of said rows being mutually spaced in longitudinal direction of the respective shaft, where the impellers of at least one of said rows are releasably fixed to the respective one of said shafts for allowing readjustment of the mutual spacing of the impellers of said at least one of said rows in longitudinal direction along the respective shaft while said impellers are mounted in released condition,

• wherein the position of at least one of said shafts relative to the other shafts is adjustable in said conveying direction, and
• wherein at least a plurality of said shafts each carry a transmission wheel, said transmission wheels being positioned in a row, a row of rotatable divert wheels are arranged along said row of transmission wheels in staggered relation to said row of transmission wheels, and a drive belt or chain is woven alternately over said transmission wheels and said divert wheels, and at least a plurality of said shafts is supported by at least one common guide and adjustable in said conveying direction relative to the other shafts along said at least one common guide.