Patent ID: 8770379

Claim:
A sorting device for sorting products, comprising: load carrying platforms that are successive, each load carrying platform including a front edge, a rear edge, and a supporting surface for supporting products to be sorted; a conveying means for conveying the load carrying platforms in a conveying direction along a conveying path; a sorting means comprising a plurality of pusher elements for pushing the products to be sorted sideways off respective supporting surfaces at a desired sorting location, at least one pusher element of the plurality of pusher elements is separately connected to at least two of the load carrying platforms and is arranged to be jointly conveyed with the at least two of the load carrying platforms in the conveying direction; and a drive means for moving the at least one pusher element sideways at the desired sorting location; wherein the front edge of each load carrying platform and the rear edge of each load carrying platform has an arcuate shape, seen in a top plan view, and wherein an arcuate shape of a front edge of each load carrying platform located behind a next load carrying platform along the conveying path abuts an arcuate shape of a rear edge of the next load carrying platform.