CARRIAGE TYPE CARRIER DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent breakage of a chain by making it hard to apply a load of a carriage in the middle of rotation on the chain. SOLUTION: This carrier device is constituted by furnishing a frame 1 above which an outward track is provided, below which an inward trck is provided and furnished with driving sprockets 10 on head end sides of these tracks and driven sprockets on rear end sides of them, a chain suspended around between the driving sprocket 10 and the driven sprocket 11 and a large number of carriages 3 installed by fixing this chain on their lower surfaces and furnished with wheels travelling on the tracks front and back. In this case, a circular arc track 23 to guide the front and rear wheels of the carriages 3 to rotate and move from the outward track to the inward track and from the inward track to the outward track are concentrically provided on the frame 1 with rotation axes of the sprockets 10, 11.