Patent ID: 7168556
Filing Date: 2007-01-30
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A curved assembly line and/or conveyor belt for the assembly and transport of motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts in production, comprising: carrying elements which are mounted in an articulated manner with respect to one another and engage positively one into the other and which have an upper platform and a lower carrying frame and the end faces of which are convexly and concavely curved in the form of an arc of a circle with approximately identical radii of curvature, so that in each case a convex and a concave recess of two adjacent carrying elements form, bearing positively one against the other, a continuous conveyor belt transition both in curved sections and on a straight line; ones of said carrying elements being intermediate carrying elements with concave end faces that are concave on both sides and others of said carrying elements being load-receiving carrying elements with convex end faces that are convex on both sides, wherein said intermediate carrying elements and said load-receiving carrying elements alternate with one another in a longitudinal direction of the assembly line and/or conveyor belt, and said intermediate carrying elements are short intermediate elements between said load-receiving carrying elements.