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<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a billet transporting device wherein the oxidation of a billet during transportation is suppressed, the time and lavor for the opening/closing of the cover in a vessel is eliminated, and the heat of the billet during transportation is hardly removed. Ž<P>SOLUTION: The billet transporting device 1 is provided with: a transporting robot 2 being a transportation device body; and an air curtain forming means 3. The transporting robot 2 has a robot hand 4 as a grasping part grasping a billet. The transporting robot 2 transports the billet from a heating apparatus to a molding apparatus. The air curtain forming means 3 blows off an inert gas so as to surround the billet, and forms an air curtain cutting off the billet from the outside air. Ž<P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT Ž
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