Patent ID: 7066318

Claim:
A transporting apparatus comprising: a linear transporting mechanism driving a work table engaging with guide means of a transporting path formed into linear shape along said guide means by means of a cylindrical cam; and a pivotal transporting mechanism having a pivotal arm mounted on an output shaft which performs extracting and retracting motion in axial direction and rotating motion about an axis, said pivotal arm being engaged and disengaged to and from said work table according to extracting and retracting motion of said output shaft, and pivotally transporting said work table engaging with said pivotal arm according to rotating motion of said output shaft, said pivotal transporting mechanism being provided at a transportation terminating end or a transportation starting end of said linear transporting mechanism and being actuated in synchronism with said cylindrical cam of said linear transporting mechanism for transferring said work table between said pivotal transporting mechanism and said linear transporting mechanism.