Conveying device

A conveying device for an upwardly oriented conveyance of turnips or other root crops in harvesting machines, the conveying device comprising:

• a conveyor belt with at least two lateral conveyor belt portions positioned to move in a conveying direction during operation, the conveyor belt portions between them defining a planar virtual conveyor belt surface, and
• at least one carrier unit which projects from the virtual conveyor belt surface on one side and is supported by the conveyor belt, which carrier unit delimits a receiving space extending on both sides of the virtual conveyor belt surface,
• wherein a part of the receiving space is arranged on a side of the virtual conveyor belt surface which is opposite the carrier unit is formed by at least one detachably fastened pocket module;
• wherein the pocket module has two pocket ties arranged in parallel which are connected to one another by at least one metallic or plastic wall element;
• wherein the pocket module comprises a plurality of wall elements which are configured as struts which run transversely to the conveying direction;
• wherein the pocket module does not intersect with the virtual conveyor belt surface and is detachable from the conveyor belt during dismantling in a direction facing away from the virtual conveyor belt surface;
• and
• the conveyor belt portions define the virtual conveyor belt surface insofar as it extends at least transversely to the conveying direction in a straight line through both conveyor belt portions, the virtual conveyor belt surface extending in the conveying direction of the conveying device.