Method and apparatus for transporting vehicle bodies, and vehicle assembling system

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In a vehicle assembling line in which parts are assembled to a vehicle body while the body is passed through each of working stations by a plurality of transporting means, the vehicle body is positioned and supported by a pallet and transported by each of the transporting means wherein transferring of the body between the transporting means is carried out through the pallet. A transporting path on which a self-travel carriage as the transporting means travels, is laid within a pit concavely provided below a floor plate of a working floor. Arranged above the floor plate are a carriage frame a lift table and, a turn rest for supporting the pallet which constitute, an upper portion of the …