Patent ID: 9676563
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: B65G

Claim:
1. A transfer apparatus comprising: a frame; a main conveying conveyor section that has a main conveying passage placed in a fixed planar region for conveying a conveyed item in a fixed direction; an auxiliary conveying conveyor section that has an auxiliary conveying passage arranged in the same planar region as the main conveying passage for conveying the conveyed item in the direction crossing the conveying direction of the main conveying passage; and a lifting and lowering unit that lifts and lowers at least one of the main conveying conveyor section and the auxiliary conveying conveyor section so as to lift one of the conveying passages to the upper side of the other conveying passage and to convey the conveyed item in the desired direction, wherein one of the main conveying conveyor section and the auxiliary conveying conveyor section is a roller conveyor device in which a plurality of long rollers are arranged in parallel, whereas the other conveying conveyor section is a short roller conveyor device in which a plurality of short roller rows are arranged in parallel, wherein each of the short roller rows has a plurality of short rollers arranged along the longitudinal direction of the long rollers with rotation axes thereof placed in the direction crossing rotation axes of the long rollers, and wherein the short roller conveyor device comprises: