PURPOSE: To realize the sure and high speed transport with the simple constitution by installing a transport body which elastically holds and reciprocation- transport a work in a guide passage for connecting the discharge port of one work transport passage and the feeding port of the other work transport passage and opening a holding part against the springy force by the driving force of the shiftable body at each connection part, and permitting the receiving/delivery of the work to each work transport passage.

CONSTITUTION: A pair of holding hooks 22a and 22b having projection parts 20a and 20b on the outside parts having different phase are installed in shiftable manner in a transport direction on a shiftable body 10 supported in reciprocation shiftable manner on a guide passage 14 for connecting the discharge port of one work transport passage and the feeding port of the other work transport passage, and a work W1 is elastically held by the holding hooks, and the holding hooks are opened at each connection position against the springy force by the contact between an opening means installed at each connection part on the guide passage and the projection part of each holding hook by the shift of the shiftable body.