to the machine control which for example comprises a further computer 16 which handles the amount of data for the day the relevant data are collected and sent further to the actual machine control which comprises one or more electronic circuits 19 coupled directly to the plant and placed on or in the vicinity thereof these electronic circuits control the inputs to and outputs from the plant itself and ensure that the whole of the sorting is effected in the manner as prescribed in the database and in the daily programs for each customer with regard to the sequence of the articles their size colour number and so on the principle of the actual sorting and the sorting method is described in more detail later with reference to fig2 and 3 the principle of the sorting itself is first explained with reference to fig2 which shows an embodiment of the sorting plant in which each sorting section has one conveyor and parallel herewith one intermediate store per conveyor in fig2 is seen a number of sorting sections 1 2 3 n coupled in series between a lead in conveyor 12 and an outlet conveyor 13 each section comprises a conveyor or a conveyor part 21 and an intermediate store 22 at the lead in to each section there is a track switchpoint 35 so that the hangers from a section lying in front are either carried to the conveyor or the conveyor part 21 or to the intermediate store 22 depending on the position of the switching point 35 foremost in the sliding direction the intermediate store 22 is coupled to the conveyor so that the hangers from the store can.