To provide a carrying device capable of carrying a carried article at a specified pitch without using a regulating means such as a guide, and adding a specified load on the carried article according to a request.

This carrying device is composed of a plurality of fixed strips 7 extending in a carrying direction X of a carried article and structuring a platy fixed carrying surface 8, plural movable strip 11 extending in parallel with the fixed strips 7 and structuring a movable carrying surface 12 in parallel with the fixed carrying surface 8, a first moving means 15 moving the movable strips 11 from a state positioning an upper end surface of the movable strips 11 on an upper side from an upper end surface to a state positioning the upper end surface on a lower side, and a second moving means 19 moving the movable strips 11 along the carrying direction X.