Patent ID: 8074786

Claim:
A method of mounting a floor slat of a reciprocating floor to an associated drive beam of the floor slat, the method including mounting an elongate clamp member to the drive beam, the clamp member having a continuous base and opposed side walls defining a longitudinally extending clamping slot between them, the side walls defining a side wall bending region of horizontally narrower side wall transverse cross-section in a lower region of the side walls, thereby to assist the forcing closer together of the side walls in upper regions thereof; locating the floor slat on the clamp member, the floor slat having a downwardly depending longitudinally extending mounting member which is received in the clamping slot; and clamping the mounting member in the clamping slot thereby to attach the floor slat to the clamp member and thus to the drive beam, clamping the mounting member in the clamping slot including forcing at least parts of the opposed side walls of the clamp member closer together by bearing against the side walls in upper regions thereof above the bending regions in the side walls thereby to narrow the clamping slot in at least one region by bending the opposed side walls closer together.