Clip link for chains and chains obtained therewith
AssigneePonsard Group LLC
InventorAlano Galligani
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Abstract
A link with a first segment (3) of nearly constant width whereon near its free end (4) it has a transverse oblong slot (5), originating a bracket-shaped bridge (6), at the other end said segment (3) narrows and joins the second segment (8), which also has nearly constant width, smaller than the length of the slot (5) in the first segment (3), with said second segment (8) bent, towards its origin, in a position parallel to the first segment; said segments (3) and (8) having a length such as to leave between their approached free ends a space (13) that is a little greater than the thickness of the strip with which the link is manufactured.
Claims11
Clip link for chains, constituted by a strip of rigid metal with transverse slot, characterised by a first segment (3) with nearly constant width provided in its initial part with a transverse slot (5), in such a position as to originate a bridge (6) constituting the free end of said first segment (3), the other end of said first segment (3) narrows and joins the second segment (8) with nearly constant width, smaller than the length of said slot (5) in the first segment (3), with said second segment (8) bent in a position that is nearly parallel to the first segment (3), the initial segment (10) whereof is inflected towards the plane whereon said second segment (8) lies, with said segments (3) and (8) of a length such as to leave between their free ends (4) and (9) a space (13) a little greater than the thickness of the metal strip with which the link (1) is constructed in such a way as to allow the concatenation of two links and not to allow the passage of the bridge (6) of a third link when two links, at said space (13), are mutually concatenated and nearly aligned.
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