Patent ID: 7878323

Claim:
A conveyor for conveying products along a conveying track, said conveyor comprising; a tunnel housing having a plurality of temperature zones; a first axle provided with first divert wheels; a second axle provided with second divert wheels; a first modular, endless conveyor mats having a first width, said first conveyor mat being built up from first plastic modules joined by first hinge pins having a length no greater than said first width; a second modular, endless conveyor mat having a second width, said second conveyor mat being built up from second plastic modules joined by second hinge pins having a length no greater than said second width, said first and second modular, endless conveyor mats traveling separately in side-by-side parallel relation in a conveying direction along the track through said temperature zones of said tunnel housing and around the first and second divert wheels; and a heat exchanging medium influencing the temperature of the products conveyed on said plurality of conveyor mats in at least one of said temperature zones in said tunnel housing.