DEVICE FOR COMBINING AT LEAST TWO PARTIAL FLOWS OF ARTICLES TO BE SORTED TO FORM A TOTAL FLOW OF ARTICLES TO BE SORTED

摘要

The apparatus includes an interruptible drawing device and a connected accelerating section in the first stream. In the second stream are provided a non- interruptible drawing device and a second accelerating part. A control unit is provided which temporarily stores or accelerates the individual sorted items from the non-interruptible drawing device on the second accelerating part so as to ensure equal spacing between the items in the combined stream.