Patent ID: 6910567

Claim:
A conveyor system comprising: a plurality of interlinked supports moveable over an infinite moving path and extending in a longitudinal direction transversely to a moving direction, each support having on a top side a mainly flat bearing surface extending between a front longitudinal top edge of each support and a back longitudinal top edge of each support, said bearing surface configured to carry products to be transported by the conveyor systems; plurality of push shoes, each push shoe supported by a respective one of said plurality of supports, each push shoe configured to move the products in a longitudinal direction with regard to the support, each push shoe including, a guiding unit extending under a level of the bearing surface to operate as a conducting means together with the respective support, said guiding unit including a contour part extending in a slanting downward direction from a first top longitudinal edge of the support, and a pushing unit configured to push the products in a sideward direction, said pushing unit extending above the level of the bearing surface and connected to the guiding unit, each shoe open at a side opposite from the oblique, downward extending contour part of the guiding unit.