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Tilt tray sorter

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Drawing shows how the automatic tilt-tray sorter uses a simple mechanism to benefit from gravity to separate various products going around in a conveyor.

A tilt-tray sorter is a high-speed, continuous-loop sortation conveyor that uses a technique of tilting a tray at a chute to slide the object into the chute. It is used to expedite the process of Order fulfillment to consolidate line items of an order, and to process returned products for immediate updating of inventory in real time.