Patent ID: 6758329
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
Conveyor belt especially for use in fresh food production industry, assembled from a number of substantially identical chain links thereby forming an endless conveyor belt, each link having a transport top surface and underside, a front and rear edge each comprising integral eye projections and corresponding recesses, arranged such that a protrusion on the front edge corresponds to a recess on the rear edge, and opposing side edges, such that adjacent links are assembled in a hinge-like manner by inserting a connection pin, which pin may comprise one or more pieces such that the pin is inserted through overlapping apertures formed in overlapping eye parts on adjacent chain links such that said belt will be able to carry items on the top surface in the intended traveling direction and that said top surface will be facing downwards during the return passage, wherein the belt in a direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the belt is made from one single chain link, and that the transport top surface comprises a wide main portion and the top part of the eye projections which are flush with the main portion, such that the belt surface is substantially without apertures and/or openings and further that the hinge-like assembly arrangement is fully accessible only from the underside of the belt, wherein the underside of the chain link slopes away from the base of the ridge, such that the links' material thickness is greater in a middle of the link than along front and rear edges.