Disposable or returnable materials sorting and/or collecting apparatus has scanners equally distributed around inclined feed-in space.

摘要

A feed-in space (4) is inclined at an angle (alpha) of at least 15 degrees, preferably 25 degrees to the horizontal (7), in the direction of a motor-driven conveyor (9). At least three, preferably four or more sensors (10) such as scanners are arranged in the region of the feed-in space. The sensors are equally distributed around the feed-in space. An electronic evaluation unit stores the time sequence of the sensor responses, and the material is only conveyed if the correct sequence is fulfilled. The scanner may typically scan a bar-code.