| 摘要 |
An article sorting arrangement in which articles are fed to one or more sorting stations and from the sorting stations to one or more sorting conveyors, each sorting station including a store in which articles are accumulated after sorting and then fed successively to the sorting conveyor. Each store consists of a number of compartments separated by controllable dividing means, these means being operated in such a way that the articles accumulating in the store travel progressively towards the sorting conveyor, the order of filling the compartments being arranged so that the compartment in each store nearest the sorting conveyor is filled first. The arrangement may include feeder conveyors for supplying the sorting station, and preferably includes means to ensure that articles which are not sorted are recycled until sorting can be effected.
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