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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2000
George Johannes van-Zijderveld, 's-Gravenzande, NL;
Franciscus Josephus Maria van Esch, Breda, NL;
MCC Nederland, Gravenzande, NL;
Abstract
A conveyor mat comprises a number of plastic modules succeeding each other in a conveying direction and whose top sides form a conveying face and provided with converging hinge loops which have equal basic forms and which alternately extend forwards and rearwards relative to the conveying direction and successive modules are coupled by means of hinge pins, such that the forwardly extending hinge loops of the rearmost module can slide between the rearwardly extending hinge loops of the next module between a slide-out position and a slide-in position, a sidewall of a forwardly extending hinge loop is provided with a projection which in the slide-out position cooperates with the top of the adjacent, rearwardly extending hinge loop, and the sidewall of the adjacent hinge loop is provided with a recess in which the projection can be received during sliding into the slide-in position.