Patent ID: 8113924

Claim:
An apparatus for transferring a stick with a strand of sausage or the like suspended therefrom, comprising: transversely transferring means having a front-back pair, in a transfer direction of the stick, of stick transverse transfer members which are reciprocatingly movable between a first position and a second position which is located forwardly of the first position and is on a side of a transferring direction of the stick with the strand of sausage or the like suspended therefrom, said transversely transferring means being adapted to transfer the stick in a longitudinal direction of the stick from the first position to the second position by said stick transverse transfer members respectively supporting both end portions of the stick placed on said stick transverse transfer members at the first position; and vertically transferring means having a stick vertical transfer member which receives the stick released from the support by said stick transverse transfer members and disengaged from said stick transverse transfer members at the second position, undergoes lowering movement, and delivers the stick to conveyor means which travels in a direction intersecting the transfer direction of the stick, wherein said transversely transferring means includes a stick transfer body having said front-back pair of stick transverse transfer members respectively provided at both end portions thereof, a rail body which supports said stick transfer body and guides linear movement thereof between the first position and the second position, and a transverse wrapping connector traveling body wound around and trained between transverse transfer wheels respectively provided in vicinities of both end sides of said rail body, said stick transfer body being secured to a part of said transverse wrapping connector traveling body and adapted to be reciprocatingly moved by the forward and reverse rotation of said transverse transfer wheel which is driven by a transverse transfer electric motor.