Patent ID: 8033379

Claim:
A cross belt sorter for transporting and sorting piece goods, comprising: a plurality of carriages either coupled on a continuous conveyor track to form a train or moved individually, where piece goods are transported in a resting position and loaded and/or unloaded at fixed loading and/or unloading locations; a cross belt which circulates continuously around a plurality of deflection rollers and is driven transversely with respect to the direction of transportation of the carriages, wherein the cross belt drives the carriages, wherein at least one deflection roller of the cross belt corresponds to a drive whose drive force is derived from the longitudinal movement of the cross belt sorter; and a shiftable transmission arranged between the drive of the cross belt and the deflection roller, where a drive shaft of the transmission is continuously engaged with the drive and the transmission connecting the deflection roller to the drive is engageable and disengageable, wherein the transmission is arranged inside a hollow deflection roller.