Patent ID: 8037995

Claim:
A conveyor, comprising: at least one workpiece carrier; drive means for driving the workpiece carrier and defining a plane of conveyance; and an inner guide and an outer guide that define a conveyor track for the workpiece carrier, wherein the outer guide includes a first straight outer guide section, an outer guide section that is concavely curved as viewed from the conveyor track, and a second straight outer guide section, which are situated one behind the other thereby enabling the sections to guide the workpiece carrier without interruption, wherein the inner guide includes a first straight inner guide section and a second straight inner guide section, each situated parallel to and at a distance of a specified track width from the first and second straight outer guide sections, wherein the inner guide furthermore includes an inner guide section which is convexly curved as viewed from the conveyor track and is assigned to the curved outer guide section, with a radius of curvature of the curved inner guide section being less than 50% of the track width, and wherein the convexly curved inner guide section is situated such that it is offset radially inwardly relative to the curved outer guide section and radially inwardly offset relative to the first and second straight inner guide sections opposite an imagined tangential extension of the first and the second straight inner guide sections.