Patent ID: 7992720

Claim:
A sorting device for the sorting of gaming chips comprising: a base frame; a collection container; an oblique transport disc adjoining the collection container, the oblique transport disc separating and receiving gaming chips; a gaming chip characteristic identification system positioned adjacent the transport disc; a transfer device distributing the gaming chips to removal units according to characteristics identified in the gaming chip characteristic identification system, removal units having a U-shaped cross-section; the sorting device having a transport for transferring the gaming chips directly from the transport disc to the removal units; and a radially external region of the transport disc containing recesses into which the gaming chips are separated, the sorting device provided with at least one ejector that can be inserted at least partially from one side of the transport disc into the recesses to lift an edge of the gaming chips above a front face of the transport disc lying opposite the at least one ejector, whereby a blade located on a removal unit slides under the gaming chip with a lifted edge, and the gaming chip with a lifted edge is placed on the blade wherein a side of the transfer disc not adjacent to the collection container has a cogwheel.