A raising/lowering conveyance apparatus has at least two sets of container holders operable to be raised/lowered in conjunction with each other, and to be freely movable closer to or away from containers in the back-and-forth horizontal direction. A sensor operable to detect the upper end height of the transferred containers which have been transferred and raised is attached to a position near the lower end of each container holder, to determine abnormality in posture of the transferred containers through a comparison operation between the value of the upper end height of the transferred containers detected by the sensor and the normal value of the upper end height of the transferred containers calculated on the basis of the height of the container being handled.

A raising/lowering conveyance apparatus has at least two sets of container holders operable to be raised/lowered in conjunction with each other, and to be freely movable closer to or away from containers in the back-and-forth horizontal direction. A sensor operable to detect the upper end height of the transferred containers which have been transferred and raised is attached to a position near the lower end of each container holder, to determine abnormality in posture of the transferred containers through a comparison operation between the value of the upper end height of the transferred containers detected by the sensor and the normal value of the upper end height of the transferred containers calculated on the basis of the height of the container being handled.

A vacuum adsorber includes a housing having an accommodating cavity and an opening communicating with the accommodating cavity; an integrated vacuum pump arranged inside the accommodating cavity; a control panel arranged inside the accommodating cavity and controllably connected with the integrated vacuum pump; wherein the control panel is controllably connected with a photoelectric switch; a power-up assembly having a guide piece and a shading movement portion; and an activating piece covering inside the opening of the housing. By means of setting the activating piece to push the shading movement portion to move in the movement cavity, when the shading movement portion moves to block beams, it causes the state of beams to change, and then voltage inside the photoelectric switch changes; when the control panel detects a change in voltage, it controls the pump to start operating; thereby improving the stability and reliability during starting the pump.