Automotive body, floor conveyor, having pivotal carriers

A painting booth with a floor conveyor for conveying an automotive body over a working floor surface,

• a track provided just under the floor surface,
• a stand for mounting the automotive body with its center of gravity directly overlying said track,
• support legs at front and rear portions of the stand for supporting the stand above the working floor surface, each leg having a carrier comprising traveling rollers with horizontal axes at its front and rear portions adapted to travel on said track,
• said track comprising a pair of laterally-spaced channel members having their channels facing one another to receive the traveling rollers therein, the vertical height of said channels affording limited vertical displacement of said rollers in the respective channels when the automotive body sways from side to side, the spacing of said channels being greater than the sideward fluctuation of said center of gravity when said body sways,
• said support legs being mounted at their lower ends on said carriers by axles positioned between said front and rear traveling rollers parallel to their rotational axes and having a length substantially the same as the spacing of said channels, said axles permitting said legs to pivot forwardly and rearwardly on said carriers but not laterally,
• each carrier including vertical-axis guide rollers at the front and rear thereof,
• said channel members having guide plates oppositely arranged on upper surfaces thereof providing therebetween a guide slot receiving the guide rollers and having a width smaller than the spacing of said channels and slightly greater than the diameter of said guide rollers so as to guide the carriers to maintain the traveling rollers within the channels of said channel members.