Abstract: A system for turning shape steels upside down includes a conveyor adapted to transport shape steels along a line, a shifting device having bars rotatable across the line upwards and downwards for transferring the shape steels from a count-up station to a first tumbling station and at the same time from the first tumbling station to a second tumbling station, intermediate and final lifting devices disposed at the tumbling stations, respectively, such that they are raised and lowered alternately in unison with the shifting device, and in their raised positions cause the shape steels to turn upside down and magnetic means adapted to attract the inverted shape steels located on the final lifting device, so as to transfer them onto a pick-up station before they are delivered to a binding apparatus.

Abstract: In a chamfering machine wherein a round bar material is longitudinally conveyed in the lengthwise direction thereof and is brought into contact with a grind stone for chamfering to chamfer an end surface of the round bar material and the round bar material is laterally conveyed in a direction orthogonal to the lengthwise direction thereof, a chamfering area including a conveying device for longitudinally conveying the round bar material, the grind stone for chamfering and a laterally conveying device is generally upwardly sloped.