The invention provided a conveyor belt, which is special in that the belt
in a direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the belt is
made from one single chain link, and that the transport top surface
comprises a wide main portion and the top part of the eye projections
which are flush with the main portion, such that the belt surface is
substantially without apertures and/or openings and further that the
hinge-like assembly arrangement is fully accessible only from the
underside of the belt.By this inventive chain link is achieved that the
narrow gaps between each assembled chain link in the prior art is not
present such that from a hygienic point of view it becomes much easier to
clean the entire conveyor belt satisfactory in that for each chain link,
which usually constitutes 40-60 mm of the total length of the conveyor
belt, which altogether, especially for deboning lines, might be 300-400
meter long, no gaps are present. This in turn gives the added security
that the multitude of gaps, sometimes more than 30,000 gaps, does not
have to be cleaned. This gives rise to a substantial increase in the
confidence that a satisfactory cleaning process complying with the high
hygienic standards in the meat producing business can be achieved.