Patent ID: 7383942

Claim:
An article carrying apparatus comprising: a carry section for restricting, to a circumferential direction, a carrying direction in which an article is carried; a cam mechanism to which a driving force is input from an input shaft and that is for applying a vibration to said carry section by transmitting, to said carry section, an oscillating motion having at least a circumferential direction component in said circumferential direction, wherein said vibration causes said article to be carried in said circumferential direction; and a balancer for inhibiting a force that acts on said input shaft due to said cam mechanism applying said vibration to said carry section, wherein said input shaft has a first cam and a second cam provided with a spacing therebetween in an axial direction of said input shaft, each of said first cam and said second cam having two types of cam faces; wherein a first cam face of said first cam faces a first cam face of said second cam; and wherein of the four cam faces of said first cam and said second cam, a second cam face of said first cam and a second cam face of said second cam are respectively in contact with cam followers provided to said carry section, and said first cam face of said first cam and said first cam face of said second cam are in contact with a cam follower provided to said balancer.