Patent ID: 7444836
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: A44C

Abstract:
1. Clip link for chains, comprising: a strip of rigid metal having a thickness and a transverse slot, said transverse slot having a length, said strip having a first segment ( 3 ) and second segment ( 8 ), said first segment ( 3 ) with nearly constant width provided in its initial part with said transverse slot ( 5 ), in such a position as to originate a bridge ( 6 ) constituting a first free end of said first segment ( 3 ), a second other end of said first segment ( 3 ) narrows and joins the second segment ( 8 ), said 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 first free end is inflected towards a 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 concatenation of two links and not to allow the passage of the bridge ( 6 ) off a third link when two links, at said space ( 13 ), are mutually concatenated and nearly aligned; wherein in their bent relationship said first segment and said second segment define an open passageway therebetween and free of any sidewalls extending upward or downward from said first segment or said second segment.