Toggles are disclosed for toggle connections of conveyor pans of a chain scraper conveyor or conveyor troughs of a mining machine guide. In providing a toggle and a toggle connection, with which high axial forces can be transmitted while, at the same time, maintaining high angular mobility of the pans and troughs, shoulder areas of the toggle are designed so as to be spherical. Because of the spherical design of the shoulder areas, the vertical mobility of adjoining conveyor pans is improved while at the same time the transmission of axial tensile forces to the toggle heads is optimized.