Patent ID: 8851271

Claim:
Modular conveyor belt apparatus, made from a plurality of modular belt links, where said belt links each has forwards and rearwards projecting eye parts, where said forward and rearward eye parts are offset, whereby overlapping eye parts are intercalated from one belt link between eye parts of an adjacent belt link, where the eye parts are provided with lateral apertures, such that as the eye parts overlap, a through-going aperture is provided, whereby a connecting rod is inserted through overlapping apertures, thereby hingely connecting adjacent belt links into the modular conveyor belt, and where said apertures are oval, said aperture having a first longer axis being the longest cross distance in the aperture, and a second shorter axis, being the shortest cross distance in the aperture, wherein one or more restrictor clips is/are provided in said conveyor belt between the overlapping forwards and rearwards eye parts of adjacent belt links within the modular conveyor belt, wherein each of said clips has a general U-shape, said U having two legs connected with a bridge portion in one end, and free ends in the opposite end, where in the free ends of the U, projecting members are provided, where said projecting members projects away from the U, and where each of the projecting members has a first dimension parallel to the legs smaller than the length of the first longer axis of the aperture in the belt link in which the clip is installed, and a second dimension perpendicular to the first dimension equivalent to or smaller than the length of the second shorter axis in the belt link in which the clip is installed, and where the lateral distance between the two legs of the U, is larger than the lateral extend of an eye part in the belt link in which the clip is installed.