Cylinder head gasket

Cylinder head gasket for also sealing a chain case of a multicylinder engine comprising an engine block, a cylinder head and a chain case having a chain case part which is to be mounted after the cylinder head gasket has been clamped between the engine block and the cylinder head, the cylinder head gasket having an elongate gasket plate defining a plane, said chain case part in the course of assembly thereof being displaced in a longitudinal direction of the gasket plate parallel to said plane of the gasket plate, and the cylinder head gasket having a group of combustion chamber openings, a chain case opening arranged between said group and a narrow side of the gasket plate, a gasket plate edge strip defined by and arranged between the chain case opening and said narrow side of the gasket plate, said gasket plate edge strip having an outer edge area bordering on said narrow side of the gasket plate, a bead in said gasket plate edge strip, said bead being disposed between the chain case opening and said narrow side of the gasket plate, and screw openings for the passage of cylinder screws through the gasket plate, said screw openings being arranged such that when clamping the cylinder head gasket, a center portion of said gasket plate edge strip tends to arch in a direction towards a space which is to be accommodated by said chain case part still to be mounted, wherein said outer edge area of said center portion of said gasket plate edge strip includes a bend out of said plane of the gasket plate away from said space in a direction opposite to said direction, said bend being disposed between said bead and said narrow side of the gasket plate.