BOUSTROPHEDONIC TRANSPORT DEVICE

摘要

A transport device in which a plurality of flexible support members of equal length form closed loops and are adapted to move about a plurality of guides in a circulatory manner. Corresponding flexible support members are arranged in pairs and are connected by a platform device on which a load can be carried. The guides are arranged so that the platform and the load move in a first horizontal direction, then in a vertical direction, and then in a second horizontal direction opposite to the first. A magazine through which the flexible support members pass reverses the order of the components of the platform device to compensate for the effect of the guides which control vertical motion.