Patent ID: 6427824
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: B66C,Y10S

Abstract:
An overhead conveyance device comprising:an overhead track, a rotary branching part located in the track, and an overhead conveyance vehicle that travels along the track and changes direction in the branching part, the overhead conveyance vehicle having a carriage part facing the track, a hand suspending part mounted on the carriage part in rotatable relation relative thereto, a hand part suspended from the hand suspending part in such a manner as to be movable up and down, and driving means for rotating the hand suspending part in a direction opposite to a direction of rotation of the carriage part when the carriage part enters in the branching part and turns, whereby a conveying object grasped by the hand part is kept unchanged in direction when the carriage part turns in the branching part.