Patent ID: 9238550
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: B65G,E04C,F16B

Claim Text:
1. A conveyor beam for a conveyor system, comprising a plurality of unitary, metallic connector elements and at least two conveyor beam elements, where a connector element comprises a central portion, two outer portions and two peripheral grooves extending peripherally around the connector element between the central portion and the outer portions, where the connector element is provided with a first inserting position in which the connector element is inserted between two conveyor beam elements with the first outer portion positioned in a beam channel of a first conveyor beam element and the second outer portion positioned in a beam channel of a second conveyor beam element, and a second arresting position, in which the connector element locks the conveyor beam elements together to form the conveyor beam, where the second arresting position is reached by rotating the connector element from the first inserting position, where each beam channel is provided with two flanges, wherein each inner side of each groove of the connector element is provided with a wedge shaped protrusion (