Abstract: A sorting machine comprising several devices for introducing objects into the machine and a mechanism for conveying the objects to magazines mounted on the outer side of a cylindrical casing of the machine. The conveying mechanism is made in the form of a rotary drum of the squirrel cage type and a fixed cylindrical cam having cam surfaces which are coaxially mounted in the casing and are coaxially relative to each other. Rods are provided with object carriers which are movable along the rods, each object carrier being operatively connected to a respective cam surface of the cam for distributing the objects among the magazines. At the points of conjunctions of the cam surfaces there are provided switches which are actuated by a control device of the machine. During rotation of the driven drum, the object carriers which are guided by the cam surfaces of the cam are moved along the rods to distribute the objects among the magazines.