Patent ID: 7090071

Claim:
A conveyor system comprising: a body frame constituting a frame of the conveyor system and arranged in a conveying direction of an article; a driven shaft rotatably arranged at an upstream end of the conveying direction of the body frame and provided with a driven sprocket on both ends in a right and left horizontal direction perpendicular to the conveying direction; and a rotatably driven driving shaft arranged rotatably at a downstream end of the conveying direction of the body frame and provided with a driving sprocket arranged on both ends in the right and left horizontal direction, wherein chains are arranged between the left driven sprocket and the left driving sprocket and between the right driven sprocket and the right driving sprocket, respectively, and an article is supported on a plurality of slats arranged across the right and left chains and conveyed by the rotational drive of the driving sprocket, wherein the conveyor system further comprising: a pair of right and left slat rollers coupled to the chain at each right and left ends of each slat, for supporting the slat; a pair of right and left advance side guides arranged along the conveying direction at an inner surface of the body frame, for supporting and traveling each of the right and left slat rollers in the conveying direction; a pair of right and left return side guides arranged below the advance side guides at the inner surface of the body frame, for supporting and traveling each of the right and left slat rollers in a direction opposite the conveying direction; and a suppressing device fixed at one end and freely movable upward and downward at the other end below the driving sprocket and suppressing hanging of the chain moving in the direction opposite the conveying direction.