Abstract: A filter plate (1) with at least one filling shoe (2, 2?) having a drive (4, 7, 18). A process for filtering a suspension, which is fed through at least one filling shoe (2, 2?) into at least one filter chamber formed between a filter plate and a counterplate of a filter device, where a filter cake forms on a filter cloth (8) on the filter plate (1), where the filter device is opened, and where the at least one filling shoe (2, 2?) is lifted subsequently off the filter cloth (8) by means of the drive (4, 7, 18) and the filter cloth (8) is conveyed onwards. By using a drive to move the filling shoe, the time at which the filling shoe is lifted off the filter cloth can be selected such that the filling shoe suffers no damage and the filter cloth conveyed further onwards.