Patent ID: 8875866

Claim:
An article transport facility comprising: a ceiling transport carriage that can travel along a traveling path while being guided and supported by a traveling rail disposed on the ceiling side, the ceiling transport carriage including a support unit hoistable with supporting an article; an article transfer section provided on the floor side in the vicinity of an article processing device for effecting a prescribed process on the article; the traveling path for the ceiling transport carriage being disposed, upwardly of the article transfer section, along a path longitudinal direction that intersects a tandem direction along which the article processing device and the article transfer section are disposed in tandem; the ceiling transport carriage transfers an article to a first supporting position of the article transfer section in association with a hoisting of the supporting unit and receives the article from a second supporting position of the article transfer section in association with a hoisting of the supporting unit; and a ground transport device for transporting the article between a processing position where the article processing device effects the processing on the article and the first supporting position as well as between the processing position and the second supporting position; wherein the first supporting position, the second supporting position and the processing position are set in tandem along the tandem direction in the article transfer section; and the ceiling transport carriage includes a movement operating mechanism for operating movement of the support unit to a position immediately above the first supporting position and to a position immediately above the second supporting position, along the tandem direction.