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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2007
Jiro Nakamura, Osaka, JP;
Jiro Nakamura, Osaka, JP;
Daifuku Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A transportation facility in which an object transported while being suspended from a hanger such as a trolley conveyor is transferred on to a carriage of a carriage-type transportation device for a certain section of a route. At the start point, there is an object receiving means at the under side of a traveling route of a traveling body. An object support device is lifted relative to the hanger of the traveling body and the object receiving means is caused to receive the object (W) from the hanger. At the end of the transportation, an object return means is provided for lowering the object support device relative to the hanger to transfer the object to the hanger. In the transportation route, the traveling body is switched to a state in which drive is released and a hanger engagement means is engaged with the hanger so that the traveling body can be pulled and moved by the carriage.