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PIPE HANDLING APPARATUS COMPRISING A VERTICAL FRAME, AN ELEVATOR VERTICALLY RECIPROCABLE ON SAID FRAME, PIPECARRYING MEANS ON SAID ELEVATOR, SAID PIPE CARRYING MEANS INCLUDING INTERNAL PIPE HOLDING FINGERS FOR ENTERING AND HOLDING A PLURALITY OF PARRALEL, LATERALLY SPACED, HORIZONTALLY ALIGNED PIPE, SAID PIPE-CARRYING MEANS BEING MOUNTED ON SAID ELEVATOR FOR RECIPROCATING MOVEMENT IN A DIRECTION TRANSVERSE TO THE VERTICAL PATH OF MOVEMENT OF SAID ELEVATOR, AND SAID PIPE-HOLDING FINGERS BEING MOUNTED ON SAID PIPE-CARRYING MEANS FOR ROTATION ABOUT A HORIZONTAL AXIS TRANSVERSE TO SAID DIRECTION OF RECIPROCATING MOVEMENT OF THE PIPE-CARRYING MEANS AND MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID ELEVATOR AND SAID PIPE-CARRYING MEANS TO POSITION SAID PIPE-HOLDING FINGERS IN SUBSTANTIAL AXIAL ALIGNMENT WITH SAID PLURALITY OF PIPE AND TO ENTER AND HOLD SAID PLURALITY OF PIPE, AND MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID PIPE-HOLDING FINGERS TO ROTATE THE AXES OF SAID PLURALITY OF PIPE THROUGH AN ANGLE OF 90* TO VERTICAL POSITIONS FOR DEPOSIT ON A RECEIVING SURFACE.