Patent ID: 8868232

Claim:
A device for recognizing and guiding individually packaged products provided with a code, the device comprising: a conveying track having a V-shaped cross section; a scanning device with a plurality of individual scanners; and a central computer, whereby the individually packaged products of a quantity, are guided separated and centered on the conveying track, which has the V-shaped cross section, through the scanning device with the plurality of individual scanners and are identified in the scanning device by reading the code of the individually packaged product as actual data and are then compared or detected with the desired data, stored in the central computer, of the individually packaged product quantity, and if there is disagreement of the desired data with the actual data, the individually packaged product is separated out, wherein the conveying track, which has the V-shaped cross section, has one V leg comprising a driven individually packaged product-conveying element on which the conveyed individually packaged product lies in a nonsliding manner, and has another V leg comprising a stationary individually packaged product-sliding element on which the conveyed individually packaged product slides, wherein in a longitudinal direction, the conveying track comprises first and second conveying sections aligned with one another, each comprising an individually packaged product-conveying element and an individually packaged product-sliding element, whereby the individually packaged product-sliding element of the second conveying section is connected, aligned, to the individually packaged product-conveying element of the first conveying section, and inversely, the individually packaged product-conveying element of the second conveying section is connected, aligned, to the individually packaged product-sliding element of the first conveying section.