An apparatus and associated method for handling a device in a manner that enhances a self-purging efficiency with which debris in the device is ameliorated. The apparatus and associated method includes rocking the device along a rocker conveyor path defined by opposing rails supporting respective rows of cantilevered eccentric rollers, wherein the rollers supported by one rail of the opposing rails are clearingly disengaged from the rollers supported by the other rail of the opposing rails, and wherein the device is instantaneously supported by one or more of the rollers supported by the one rail and one or more of the rollers supported by the other rail.