The invention relates to a chain conveyor, provided with a drive chain and with carriers mounted on the chain, said carriers being mounted on the links of the chain. According to the invention each carrier consists of a rigid, rod-shaped element being at one end pivotably mounted on a chain link and being at a distance from the chain, pivotably connected to a pulling element which is pivotably connected at its other end to a chain link, being situated at a distance from the first-mentioned chain link, in such a manner that a triangular carrier is formed, and that the basis along the chain of adjacent triangular carriers partially overlap each other.