Patent ID: 7448490

Claim:
An intermediate element for a conveying system, said conveying system including a first conveyor belt having a first conveying surface moving in a first conveying direction and a second conveyor belt having a second conveying surface moving in a second conveying direction substantially transverse to said first conveying direction, said intermediate element comprising: a first back part forming a slide-over surface on which a product being conveyed slides from the first conveyor belt to the second conveyor belt; and a second back part is lower with respect to the slide-over surface and is formed to extend under the second conveyor belt; wherein the first back part extends, at least in part, into the first conveyor belt and the second back part supports the second conveyor belt to form the slide-over surface extending from the first conveying surface to the second conveying surface such as to span a gap between the first conveying surface and the second conveying surface.