Patent ID: 6330788
Filing Date: 2001-12-18
Classification: F16G

Abstract:
A plate chain comprising in combination outer and inner chain links (2, 3) which are interconnected at joint places (10) formed as slide bearings, each of said joint places (10) being formed by a sleeve (9) of said inner chain link (3) and by a pin bolt (6) of said outer chain link (2) which in said sleeve (9) substantially rotates about its own axis (A), at least one portion of a lateral surface of said pin bolt (6) engaging a facing portion of the inner surface (11) of said sleeve (9) when a pulling force is exerted on the plate chain to define a pulling side (15) of said joint place (10), said at least one portion of said lateral surface of said pin bolt (6) and said facing portion of the inner surface (11) of said sleeve (9) having different circumferential contours so that said pin bolt (6) is supported on said sleeve (9) at at least two circumferentially spaced-apart points or lines of contact at said pulling side (15).