Abstract: A carrying apparatus comprising an endless roller chain belt that moves on a circular track and includes a plurality of fixture plates. Each fixture plate has several interrupted slot lines each of which comprises vertically elongate lower, middle and upper slot sections, and a work holding device formed with a resilient coil section intermediate a fixing section at an upper end and a work holding section at a lower end. The work holding device being engaged with the slot line such that the coil section seats within the middle slot section and the fixing and work holding sections extend respectively through the upper and lower slot sections to hold a workpiece between the holding section and an edge of the fixture plate. The middle slot section being skewed at an inclined angle with the upper and lower slot section having vertical axes parallel to and spaced one from the other.