To provide a carrier capable of bringing longitudinal length of a carrying article to carry and an arrangement pitch of a guide member to restrain longitudinal movement of the carrying article as close as possible to each other, capable of corresponding to various longitudinal length and high in versatility.

It is a carrier device furnished with a plural number of push and delivery fingers 3 installed on an endless chain 2 and devised to push and deliver a carrying article 8 placed on a carrier surface by the push and delivery fingers. The push and delivery fingers are installed free to rotate against the endless chain and can take a carrier position to project on an upper plate at the time of moving along the upper plate 7 and a non-carrier position not to project on the upper plate. It is possible to switch the carrier position/the non- carrier position over to each other for each of the push and delivery fingers by changing the moving direction of a roller installed on the push and delivery finger by a vertically sorting rail 15.