A footwear article conveyer includes an article-conveying line for receiving
carriers
thereon, a first driving unit for driving the carriers to move simultaneously along
the article-conveying line, a carrier-returning line separate from the article-conveying
line, a first shifting unit for shifting one of the carriers from one end of the
article-conveying line to one end of the carrier-returning line, a second driving
unit for driving carrier movement along the carrier-returning line, and a second
shifting unit for shifting carriers from the other end of the carrier-returning
line to the other end of the article-conveying line.
