PURPOSE: To enhance the maneuvering performance, suppress the costs, and allow the device to be used in a variety of applications by reducing the number of component parts and simplifying the control mechanism while securing the reliance upon the motions.

CONSTITUTION: A supply and takeout device to/from a tray is composed of a slide frame 6 to make reversal motions between a step clear part 1 and a locational part 3, an elevating/sinking table 7 moving vertically about the step clear part 1, and a pawl member 12 to open and shut at the step clear part 1 inward and outward, wherein the elevating/sinking table 7 with a tray 2 making interlocked motions through a gear mechanism part 11 placed thereupon sinks onto the slide frame 6 when it moves from the step clear part 1 to the locational part 3, and the pawl member 12 interlocking with the table 7 through a cam mechanism part 14 is engaged by a flange 13 of a second stage tray 2 from below while the undermost tray 2 is dropped onto the slide frame 6. At the locational part 3 a pinching piece 16 pinching tray 2 is provided with possibility of opening and shutting through a link mechanism part 15, and when the slide frame 6 makes motion, the link mechanism part 15 is moved by a projection 24 or a protruding piece 25 provided in an appropriate place thereon, and thereby the pinching piece 16 is opened and shut at a proper time.