Saw Chain for A Power Chain Saw

A saw chain for a guide bar of a power chain saw, comprising:

• pivotably interconnected chain links, including drive links, cutting links, and connecting links, wherein each of said drive links is pivotably connected with several lateral connecting links, and a lateral cutting link, such that successive ones of said cutting links, in a longitudinal direction of said saw chain, are alternatingly disposed on a right and a left longitudinal side of said saw chain, wherein said cutting link is provided with a cutting tooth and a depth limiter that leads said cutting tooth in a direction of travel of said saw chain, wherein a drive link that is adjacent to said depth limiter is provided with a support protuberance that in said longitudinal direction of said saw chain extends in a region of said depth limiter of said cutting link, wherein said support protuberance has a support surface that, at least when said saw chain travels about an end of said guide bar, is adapted to cooperate in a supporting manner with a top surface of said depth limiter in a groove cut into a work piece, wherein in an extended state of said saw chain a spacing of said support protuberance to said cutting tooth, as measured in said longitudinal direction of said saw chain, is less than a spacing of said depth limiter to said cutting tooth, wherein in the extended state of said saw chain, in a side view of the saw chain, the spacing between the cutting tooth and the depth limiter is limited by the support protuberance, wherein when said saw chain travels about said end of said guide bar, said spacing of said support protuberance to said cutting tooth increases to a reversal spacing that is greater than said spacing of said depth limiter to said cutting tooth, and wherein when said saw chain travels about said end of said guide bar, the support protuberance is pivoted out from the space between the cutting tooth and the depth limiter in a side view of the saw chain, wherein the support surface in both the extended state and during travel about said end of said guide bar lies beneath the top surface of the depth limiter.