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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
May. 25, 2022
Vanderlande Industries B.v., Veghel, NL;
Koen Maarten Geert Grobben, Veghel, NL;
Thomas Hendrikus Peeters, Veghel, NL;
Vanderlande Industries B.V., Veghel, NL;
Abstract
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.