Patent ID: 7878320

Claim:
A conveying device for conveying an individually packaged product, the conveying device comprising: a first conveying section comprising a first twin-belt conveyor with two lateral, endlessly driven circulating belts; a second conveying section comprising a second twin-belt conveyor with two lateral, endlessly driven circulating belts, said second conveying section being differently directed from said first conveying section for a change in direction of conveying, said second twin-belt conveyor directly adjoining a longitudinal end of said first twin-belt conveyor laterally at an angle and the longitudinal end of said circulating belts of said first twin-belt conveyor extends in an angle area into the extension of the conveyor track of said second twin-belt conveyor at least up to a middle of the conveyor track of said second twin-belt conveyor; a transfer device for transferring the individually packaged product being conveyed from the first conveying section to the second conveying section, said transfer device comprising obliquely directed, non-driven guide rollers provided in said angle area between the two circulating belts of said first twin-belt conveyor, said lateral circulating belts of each of said first twin-belt conveyor and said second twin-belt conveyor forming the only drive means of said conveying device, said obliquely directed, non-driven guide rollers defining an exclusive deflecting means in said angle area for deflecting the individually packaged product being conveyed from said first twin-belt conveyor on a curved path to said second twin-belt conveyor, said non-driven guide rollers being accommodated and fastened in a bottom plate as an assembly unit, said bottom plate being arranged in said angle area at least partially between said two circulating belts of said first twin-belt conveyor.