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Sorting device

US9586236B2 · kind B2 · utility

3Cited by

1References

17Claims

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Assignee

Festo AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventor

Ralf Starzmann · Reichenbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 13, 2015
Grant date	Mar 7, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 13, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF16K21/04
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A sorting device which is suitable for sorting parts by means of air blasts and which includes at least one sorting unit which includes a valve support fitted with sorting valves. Each sorting valve is capable of optionally connecting a sorting passage ending in a sorting nozzle to a feed passage and of disconnecting it therefrom. In addition, several or all of the sorting passages of the sorting unit are—independently of the sorting valves—connected to a common purge air passage, so that purge air can flow through them without any involvement of the sorting valves, with the result that no impurities enter the sorting passages.

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