DEVICE AND METHOD OF BOARDS SORTING Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC B07C5/14 

FIELD: process engineering.

SUBSTANCE: boards (14) are fed to sorting line (3) consisting of inlet conveyor (4) and sorting conveyors (5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.n). For automatic boards sorting, pushing lever (6) is used to push boards to line (8) in compliance with preselected sequence so that boards pass by endless continuous chain (13) and are pushed by cylinder (11) down as-sorted (14.1) onto cross conveyor (15) for them to be transferred onto adjacent sorting line (3.1). Workers (10) manually sort boards and push them onto line (9) to move by endless continuous chains (13.1, 13.2), (13.3), (13.n) so that the boards are pushed down by one of cylinders (12), (12.1), (12.2), (12.n) as manually sorted boards (14.2) on appropriate cross conveyor (16), (16.1), (16.2), (16.n) for them to be transferred to storage zone. In compliance with this invention, proposed device may consist of several parallel sorting lines.

EFFECT: simplified sorting.

17 cl, 7 dwg