To provide a belt conveyor for foods including a belt with which foods are contacting directly, of such a structure that a pressure body to give a driving force to the belt upon contacting with its surface can be removed simply together with the belt and subjected to a sanitation control.

The belt of endless form is installed between support rollers mounted at the starting and terminating ends of the conveyor body, wrapped around on the periphery partially of a drive roller installed in the middle of the conveyor body, and run in the specified direction in association with rotation of the drive roller for transportation of the foods. The arrangement is further equipped with swing arms supported in the upper and the lower side about the rotating direction of the drive roller, respectively, in such a way as swinging between the driving force giving position on the drive roller side and the slacking position apart from the drive roller, pressure rotors installed at the tips of the swing arms, abutting to the belt surface when the arms are swung to the driving force giving position for wrapping the belt around the periphery partially of the drive roller, and removable from the arms when they are swung to the slacking position, and a swinging holding member to keep the swinging condition of each arm swung at least to the driving force giving position and keep the pressure contacting condition of the pressure rotors with the belt.