Abstract: The invention refers to a method as well as the equipment for the automatic sorting of goods transported in file hanging on hangers and provided with codes, in particular garments hanging on coat hangers, in a sorting equipment with an overhead conveyor system, whereby a determined hanger belonging to a hanger file is discharged in a programmed fashion, based on the coding, from one of several delivery stations located in a delivery stretch, and whereby before being transported to the delivery stretch the hanger is placed on an intermediate hanger which is equipped with a roll in order to be rolled off, hanging on a guide rail of the conveyor system of the sorting equipment.