Assembly line

An assembly apparatus with a succession of work stations for assembling, or working on, workpieces and parts, which comprises a conveyor means for conveying pallets carrying the workpieces and parts along an elongated path to the succession of work stations, each pallet having a length extending in the direction of said path, the elongated conveyor means path having two parallel path portions, a connecting path portion extending substantially perpendicularly to the parallel path portions and pivotal conveyor means sections arranged between the parallel and connecting path portions, the length of the pivotal conveyor means sections corresponding substantially to the pallet length, each work station being equipped with its own conveyor means drive means and manipulating means for assembling, or working on, the workpieces and parts, the pivotal conveyor means sections being equipped with conveyor means drive means constituted by conveyor rollers rotatable about a vertical axis, a pivoting drive for each one of the pivotal conveyor means sections, and motion-transmitting means connecting the conveyor rollers and the pivoting drive of each pivotal conveyor means section.