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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2012
Vanderlande Industries B.v., Veghel, NL;
Frits Franciscus Carolus Groot, Boxtel, NL;
Arnoldus Wilhelmus Johannes Hulsen, Gemert, NL;
Marinus Adrianus Maria Potters, Eindhoven, NL;
Erwin Hendrikus Petrus Martinus Johannes Van Schaijk, Vinkel, NL;
Petrus Theodorus Cornelis Vervoort, Rosmalen, NL;
Vanderlande Industries B.V., Veghel, NL;
Abstract
A sorting device for sorting products, comprising successive carrier units each provided with a load carrying platform having a front arcuate edge and a rear arcuate edge. The sorting device further conveys the load carrying platforms along a conveying path and includes an elongated pusher element for each load carrying platform for pushing a product to be sorted sideways off, using at least one pusher element, at a desired sorting location. The pusher elements each extend above a load carrying platform and are designed for joint transport with the load carrying platform. The sorting device further comprises two elongated passages in the load carrying platform, and drive means at least partially provided under the load carrying platforms for moving a pusher element sideways between two opposite lateral positions at a desired sorting location.