MACHINE FOR SORTING BY SHOPS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the required area for sorting articles by shops by arranging radially plural distributing means for distributing articles to every wholesale distributing agent on the tip of a moving means where the article is moved at a fixed space from the tip, and connecting the moving means and the disbributing means to each other by connecting means installed in the distributing means. SOLUTION: Plural disbributing means 20 are radially arranged on the tip of a moving means 10 at a fixed space from the tip. The distributing means 20 is formed by a slick rail so that a hanger on which an article is hung on is easy to move, and the slick rail is inclined. Plural distributing means 20 are supported by one support means 30. By the operation of a connecting means 40, the moving means 10 and the distributing means 20 are connected to each other to disbribute articles by a required distributing means 20. Passing of an article is confirmed by a sensor, and the signal is input to a computer. Thus, articles are supplied in parallel from a common moving means 10 to plural distributing means 20 by the continuous operation of the plural connecting means 40.