PURPOSE: To surely transfer individual articles one after another for respective lanes, which are carried by a plurality of individual conveyors separately in order, under a single line condition, and in addition, continue the operation even when the supply of the individual articles from one part of the individual conveyors is stopped.

CONSTITUTION: Lifter devices 31A-31C are respectively provided at locations which respectively correspond with the final ends of a plurality of individual conveyors. Then, loading tables 315A-315C of respective lifter devices are vertically moved by a controller 13 in order with a time difference. An individual article Y on the loading table which is lifted to a high position is fed out on a receiving table in order by a feeding out device 35, and the individual article Y which is fed out on the receiving table is transferred by a transferring device 35 while being joined into a single line by a direction-changing guide in order.