Patent ID: 8684171

Claim:
A modular conveyor apparatus, comprising: a conveyor bed assembly including first and second ends and first and second longitudinal sides; a drive roller attached to the first end of the conveyor bed assembly; an idler roller attached to the second end of the conveyor bed assembly; an endless conveyor belt extending around the conveyor bed assembly and the drive roller and the idler roller; at least one of the first and second ends of the conveyor bed assembly including a pair of laterally spaced hooks spaced apart by a hook spacing distance; at least one of the first and second longitudinal sides including a plurality of slots defined therein, the slots being complementary to the hooks for receiving the hooks of another like conveyor in the slots, so that the conveyor can be connected perpendicularly to the other like conveyor at a selected one of a plurality of locations along a length of the conveyor.