PURPOSE: To sort printed boards securely with a simple constitution by supporting the board by a guide at a lower part, transferring it leaned against a transfer conveyor belt, delivering it as it is standing to a supporting body erected on a takeout conveyor running under a transfer conveyor perpendicularly to it, so as to be taken out at a sorting and taking out part.

CONSTITUTION: A non-sorted printed board 1 is placed at its lower part on a guide rail 4 on a transfer conveyor 2 to be leaned against a transfer conveyor belt 5, and pushed by a stopping member 6 to moved. A takeout conveyor unit 3 disposed at each sorting position is driven by an unillustrated control unit according to sorting position reaching timing of the printed board 1 to be sorted. The printed board 1 reaching the position is taken by a supporting body 12 erected on a takeout conveyor belt 11 to be taken out. In this constitution, the printed board can be sorted securely with a simple constitution.