US Patent 7588140 Product conveyor with load-carrying platforms

A device for conveying products along an endless conveying path, which device includes a frame, an elongated flexible conveying element supported by the frame, which includes links that are pivotable relative to each other about vertical pivots, load-carrying platforms each having a supporting surface at the upper side, which supporting surfaces jointly form a substantially closed, common supporting surface for the products, which load-carrying platforms are connected to the conveying element via supports and whose supporting surfaces adjoin each other at curved forward and rearward edges thereof, and a drive for driving the conveying element. The drive includes a driving element and the conveying element includes an element driven by the driving element. The driven element forms part of the links of the conveying element.