Patent ID: 7066334

Claim:
A screening assembly which includes: at least one rail to be secured to a support member of a screening machine to lie parallel to, and intermediate, side members of the screening machine; at least one locating formation standing proud of an operatively upper surface of said at least one rail; a plurality of screening modules, each screening module having an end supported on said at least one rail so that a pair of modules lie in end-to-end abutting relationship with the abutting ends, in use, overlying the at least one rail and defining a receiving formation associated with the, or each, locating formation and through which the associated locating formation protrudes to project beyond the receiving formation into a recessed region defined by the abutting ends of the pair of modules, the recessed region, when viewed in a plane normal to a screening surface of the module, being substantially half-moon shaped; and a locking member associated with the, or each, receiving formation and receivable in said recessed region for engaging its associated locating formation to lock the pair of modules with respect to each other and with respect to the rail, in use, an upper surface of the, or each, locking member, when the locking member is received in the recessed region, lying substantially flush with upper surfaces of the pair of modules.