Patent ID: 6991087

Claim:
A conveyor device for advancing work-pieces through a processing zone for the surface treatment of the work-pieces, comprising: a conveyor which moves the work-pieces mounted on a respective mounting device into the processing zone, advances the workpieces through the processing zone and then removes the workpieces from the processing zone, wherein: the mounting devices each comprise a respective base part which is moved in a translatory manner in a direction of conveyance and a rotary part upon which the work-piece is arranged and which is mounted in rotatable manner on the base part, the conveyor comprises at least one drive device by means of which at least one respective directly driven mounting device is adapted to be driven directly for movement in the direction of conveyance, and by virtue of contact between the directly driven mounting device and at least one indirectly driven mounting device, the movement of the directly driven mounting device is transmitted to the indirectly driven mounting device in the direction of conveyance.