Patent ID: 6364799
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: F16G

Abstract:
A quick-connection link, for a bicycle chain that comprises a large number of chain links hinged together and comprised of pairs of elongated plates parallel to each other and some distance apart, arranged alternatively inside and outside one another, so as to define outer links, comprising outer chain plates alternatively with inner links, comprising inner chain plates, each outer link being articulated on opposite sides to two adjacent inner links by means of pins secured at their ends to the plates of the outer link, at least one of the outer chain-links being a special link which can be used for quick assembly of the chain,wherein the said quick-connection link comprises a pair of outer plates, the first of the said outer plates being equipped, to correspond to at least one of the two articulations of link, with a tubular articulating pin, possessing a first end non-removably secured to the said first outer plate, and able to receive on itself and support, in articulated fashion, an inner chain-link, with the end of the tubular pin opposite to the said first end that projects beyond the said inner link and inserted in a hole in the second outer plate, the said quick-connection link comprising in addition a locking element inserted and engageable within the said tubular pin, to prevent separation of the said second outer plate from the tubular pin.