Patent ID: 8955688
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: B07C,B65H

Abstract:
1. A sorting installation for sorting a plurality of articles according to a predefined sort characteristic, the sorting installation comprising: a measuring device configured to measure, for each article to be sorted, what value the predefined sort characteristic assumes for the article; a plurality of holding apparatuses; at least one supply station configured to place a respective article to be sorted into a holding apparatus or otherwise detachably connect the article to said holding apparatus in such a way that, after the article has been placed into said holding apparatus, said holding apparatus holds the article as a held article; a sorting and transporting device configured: at least one removal station configured to remove the articles to be sorted from the holding apparatuses; said removal station having a gripping tool with at least two gripper arms disposed in a defined gripper-arm sequence, said gripping tool being configured to: said removal station being configured to remove simultaneously from the respective said holding apparatuses or otherwise to separate from said holding apparatuses the articles gripped in each case by two gripper arms, by way of a relative movement of said gripper arms relative to those holding apparatuses that are located in each case between at least two gripper arms of said gripping tool.