Patent ID: 7380650

Claim:
A device for sorting items, provided downstream of a first number of feeding channels of a series of items formed and singled out at previous operative stations, said feeding channels being provided, at the relevant output sections, with dispensing members for a controlled release of said items, said device comprising: a third number of mobile tracks arranged downstream of said feeding channels and including at least one supplementary track added to said first number of said channels, said mobile tracks being movable each one alone and in a reciprocal succession, in phase relation with the release of items performed by said dispensing members and according to predetermined sequences, so as to move until they face said feeding channels for receiving items released by said feeding channels in a number equal to said third number, so as to define, in cooperation with driving bars, moving longitudinally above the same mobile tracks, which contact, and pull such items, respective and distinct transversal rows of items, each transversal row including a number of items equal to said third number, and for transferring the same rows of items towards subsequent packaging operating stations.