Mettler-toledo Garvens Gmbh

Bundesdruckerei Gmbh

Rüdiger Kliefoth

Nikolaos Georgitsis

Franziska Peinze

Hans-Peter Seijo Bollin

Michael Mauderer

Patrick Radtke

Andreas GÜMMER

Michael Petri

Dirk Adorf

A belt conveyor () includes a conveyor bed () on which belt rollers () are arranged, respectively, at both the leading end and the trailing end relative to the transport direction T, and it also includes a conveyor belt () which is arranged to be movable over the conveyor bed () and around the belt rollers (). The conveyor belt () is arranged and pulled tight over the conveyor bed () and the belt rollers () in such a way that a sealing effect is achieved between the outside borders () of the conveyor belt () and the conveyor bed (), wherein the outside borders () of the conveyor belt () are set back from the edges () of the conveyor bed () by a distance (d) equal to at least the maximum sweep of a lateral variation in the movement of the conveyor belt.

Belt conveyor

Method to sort products whereby the products are transported along a path of conveyance in a conveying device, automatically checked during transport according to at least two predetermined sorting criteria, and when one of the criteria is met, automatically diverted by a diverting force out of the path of conveyance perpendicular to the direction of conveyance into a receiving area, whereby the diverting force proceeds from a common center independent of the fulfilled criterion on the basis of which the respective product is to be diverted, and a device suitable for implementing this method as well as a container for receiving the rejected products.

Sorting method and apparatus

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Rüdiger Kliefoth