To handle articles without damaging the articles by means of simple operations, to efficiently perform classified shipment for the articles and to improve a carrying process speed.

This equipment is a flow rack facility consisting of multistage carrying chutes 3 arranged with gentle slopes from a carrying starting end 1 toward a carrying terminal 2. Articles A are slided and carried on the carrying chutes 3, respectively. The articles A are dropped at the carrying terminal of each carrying chute 3, or each carrying out terminal 31. A carrying out conveyer 4 for mounting and transferring the articles A is provided at the dropping positions of the articles A. The carrying out conveyer 4 automatically sends out the articles A. Where, this equipment is implemented as follows: the articles A jumped and dropped from the carrying out end 31 of each carrying chute 3 collide with an inverting means for absorbing dropping impact; the dropping direction is altered to transfer the articles A to a lower-stage chutes 3, or to drop all the articles A, and to carry out the dropped articles by finally collecting and transferring the dropped articles to the carrying out conveyor 4.