| 摘要 |
PCT No. PCT/SE88/00513 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 30, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 30, 1989 PCT Filed Oct. 6, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO89/03355 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 20, 1989.Apparatus for conveying article carriers (11) through a series of processing stations (T) in the form of tanks into which articles supported by the carriers are to be dipped has a row of lifting devices (13A-13H), each including an article carrier support (17) which defines a section of a horizontal processing track along which the article carriers (11) are movable in succession. The article carrier supports (17) are individually displaceable vertically between an upper position and a lower position (dipping position). When adjacent article carrier supports (17) are simultaneously in the upper position, an article carrier on one of the article carrier supports can be fed over to the other. A sensor (K) triggers lowering of said other article carrier support to the lower position in response to the reception of the article carrier by that article carrier support. When supported by the article carrier support provided at the downstream end of the processing track, the article carrier is displaced, together with the article carrier support generally horizontally transversly of the processing track to a return track on which the article carrier is returned to a position opposite the processing track. |
