Patent ID: 8020693

Claim:
An apparatus comprising a least two conveyor chain links, each conveyor chain link comprising a leading edge, a trailing edge, two opposed side edges, a load carrying upper surface, and a bottom face, wherein the leading edge includes a plurality of eye parts separated by openings and the trailing edge includes a plurality of eye parts separated by openings, the eye parts having apertures such that the eye parts on the trailing edge of chain link may be arranged in the openings arranged in the leading edge of the adjacent chain link; the apparatus further comprising a plurality of hinge pins, wherein and the chain links may be connected by inserting hinge pin through said apertures provided in the lateral direction in the eye parts, wherein between the leading and trailing edge and side edges the load carrying upper surface is defined, where the load carrying upper surface has a flat section corresponding to substantially half of an area of said load carrying upper surface, and where another half of the area of the load carrying upper surface is inclined, wherein the two chain links are arranged laterally to each other, where the inclination one of the chain links is mirrored on the other chain link such that by assembling the two chain links laterally the inclinations form a valley; wherein the two chain links outer side edges comprise flat sections and the two chain links adjacent inner side edges and the two mutually inclined load carrying upper surfaces forming a central valley in the intended transport direction.