A conveyance apparatus having an improved compact conveying mechanism

A conveyance apparatus includes an extendable and retractable mechanism, which includes a plurality of linked member pairs rotatably coupled across each other horizontally in a predetermined direction in pantograph form, a multiple-layer slider, which includes a carrier slider to hold a work product and fixed at one end of the extendable mechanism and at least one movable slider to move in a predetermined direction keeping a predetermined relative position to the carrier slider, and a drive mechanism configured to cause the linked member pairs to expand by changing a relative angle of the crossing linked member pairs.