Abstract: An improved pusher-type chain for a conveyor, the conveyor being of the type comprising an elongated base means having a bottom and upstanding side guides or flanges. The base means may be made up of two or more longitudinal sections joined together in such a way as to permit them to be shifted with respect to each other from side-to-side about the juncture therebetween and to be shifted vertically upwardly and downwardly with respect to each other about the same or other juncture. The pusher-type chain is a continuous chain adapted to be driven in such a way that one of its spans moves longitudinally along the upper surface of the base means bottom and between the upstanding side guides or flanges in a conveying direction whereby to advance the material being conveyed along the upper surface of the base means bottom. The chain itself comprises a plurality of rigid pusher elements of improved construction normally extending substantially transversely of the conveying direction.