Abstract: A screw conveyor including a feed screw formed, at least partially, as a shankless screw, a jacket surrounding the feed screw and a brush cooperating with the inner surface of the jacket for cleaning the same, with the feed screw including a plurality of substantially band-shaped screw threads extending along an imaginary helical line and arranged, when viewed in a transporting direction, one behind the other with an ever increasing distance from a screw axis so that each two adjacent screw threads form a step therebetween, and with the brush being arranged on the step formed by two outmost screw threads.