Patent ID: 6969222

Claim:
A rod transfer device for horizontal driving units for underground trenchless driving, having a storage container with a transfer position to which rods are supplied successively from the storage container and an orbiting pivotable gripper; said gripper being arranged in such a way that the orbit of the gripper intersects both the transfer position of the storage container and a drilling axis (B); said drilling axis being positioned at a distance from the storage container; characterized in that said gripper, when it is pivoted into the transfer position, unlocks a locking element of the rod transfer device which locks the rod in the transfer position and that the gripper has a lifting contour which, when the gripper is pivoted into the transfer position, lifts a rod section, which is in the transfer position, before a rod receptacle of the gripper, which is located beneath the storage container, passes into the transfer position of the storage container.