To increase a transfer efficiency in a transfer device having a vertical transfer conveyor device.

A transfer device comprises a feed-in device 30 which comprises a vertical transfer conveyor device supported by external chains 14 and 15 at four corner positions and provided with a vertically continuously circulating comb-shaped transfer table 16, a load receiving table 32 in which comb-shaped levers 31 are disposed in parallel with each other between a plurality of vertically steppingly installed stations 3 and that table, and an operating device 33 reciprocated between an operating position where the load receiving table 32 can be engaged with the transfer table 16 and a non-operating position where the table is departed from the transfer table 16.