Apparatus for conveying tubular or bar-shaped rolled stock

Apparatus for conveying pieces of elongate rolled stock from a discharge station at the delivery end of a cooling bed, a straightening pallette or the like to a severing device which has reception pockets for the pieces of rolled stock and which simultaneously sub-divides a plurality of pieces of rolled stock into individual longitudinal portions, said apparatus comprising at least one generally horizontally and vertically reciprocable collecting conveying device operatively disposed at the discharge station for collecting a plurality of pieces of rolled stock, the at least one collecting conveying device having a rigid bed with a separate reception pocket extending transversely of the conveying direction for each of the discharged pieces of rolled stock to be collected together and being movable rectilinearly, during collection, in a stepwise manner by one reception pocket pitch spacing at a time transversely of the longitudinal direction of the pieces of rolled stock lying in their reception pockets to carry the pieces of rolled stock along, and longitudinal substantially continuous bed longitudinally pocketed conveying means spaced from the discharge station for conveying the rolled stock in the latter's longitudinal direction, the longitudinal conveying means having the same pocket spacing, as said at least one collecting conveying device, and as the severing device to which delivery is to be made and the pieces of rolled stock being placeable into the reception pockets of the longitudinal conveying means without movement relative to one another by said at least one collecting conveying device, said at least one collecting conveying device reciprocating in a horizontal plane to and from the discharge station and the longitudinal conveying means.