Patent ID: 8602203

Claim:
A conveying apparatus with a conveying traveling body having a driven roller engageable with a screw shaft supported along a screw drive section of a traveling path and having an engaged member engageable with a pusher of a pusher equipped chain conveyor stretched along a chain drive section of the traveling path, the conveying traveling body comprising: front and rear trolleys; a load bar coupling the front and rear trolleys together; a front vertical column supported by the front trolley and a rear vertical column supported by the rear trolley; a conveyed object support base supported by the front and rear vertical columns, the engaged member projecting on a downside of at least one of the front and rear trolleys; the conveyed object support base being provided with a driven roller support member having an upper column projected downward and aligned in a vertical plane passing through the front and rear vertical columns and a lower arm extending laterally from a lower end of the upper column; and the driven roller is pivotally supported by the lower arm of the driven roller support member and is positioned higher than the load bar.