Vanderlande Industries B.v.

Thomas Hendrikus Peeters

Koen Maarten Geert Grobben

Petrus Theodorus Cornelis Vervoort

System () for sorting products, comprising: ⋅—a conveyor () comprising carrying bodies () one after another, extending parallel to each other, the carrying bodies associated with a pusher body (), an electric motor () for moving the pusher body along the carrying body in a sort direction, ⋅—a central control server () arranged for transmitting destination data relating to a sorting location⋅—a plurality of controllers (), in communication with the central control server and moveable in the transport direction, each to control two or more electrical motors in accordance with destination data received from the central control server, ⋅—a stationary Access Point, AP (), communicating with the server, and⋅—a pair of stationary radiating cables () connected to the AP, one radiating cable extending in the transport direction and the other radiating cable extending against the transport direction, the radiating cables arranged for communication with the controllers.

System for sorting products, method for sorting product, and computer program product

The invention relates to a sorting system for sorting products, comprising a central control server, a conveyor, movable, successive combinations of an elongated carrying body and a pusher body, a supply device for products, each combination further being provided with a pusher body moving device with a driving device for moving the pusher body along the carrying body, wherein the sorting system is provided, per combination or per group of combinations, with a controller, wherein the central control server and the controllers are configured to ensure that in operation, the supply device and the conveyor are controlled in such a way that the carrying body associated with not more and not less than one intermediate combination located between two successive products, is free from the two successive products and so that the pusher body moving device thereof moves the pusher body to a position in which it is located within the widths of the two successive products.

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Thomas Hendrikus Peeters