Improvements in and relating to Chain Links.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th D-c., 1894-Accepted, 9th Feb., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Chain Links.
We, RICHARD ALVIN BREUL, Inventor, and CHARLES AUGUST BREUL, Tool-
maker, residing respectively at 55 Beach Street, and 31 Seymour Street, in the
City of Bridgeport, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, one of the
United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists in a new and improved wire chain link, which is largely
designed as an improvement on the wire link described in Letters Patent, No. 7591,
granted to one of the present inventors and bearing date April 17th, 1894; this
invention embodying certain novel and valuable features which add materially to
the strength and wearing qualities of the link; and our present invention will be
hereinafter fully described and claimed.
Referring to the accompanying drawings-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a piece of our improved chain;
Figure 2 is a detail view on an enlarged scale of one of the links;
Figure 3 is a similar view taken from the opposite side to that shown in
Figure 2;
Figure 4 is an edge view, and Figures 5 and 6 are, respectively, a perspective
view, and an edge view showing the double loop of the link arranged in a plane at
right angles to the single loop, as hereinafter described.
Figures 7 and 8 are, respectively, a perspective and an edge view showing the
double loops formed of a smaller size.
These new and improved chain links are formed each of a single piece or length
of wire, which is bent at its center to form a single loop, 1, said loop being about
half the length of the proposed link; the side wires 2, at the inner end of this loop
being offset or bent inward towards each other at 3, 3, then offset again at 4, in the
general direction of the link, crossing each other as shown, the wire ends or shanks
being then curved to form loops 5, 5, which register with each other, forming a
double loop, as shown in Figure 1 to 4, in the same plane with the single loop 1;
the ends of the wire running back to the central offsets where they are passed
through the single loop 1 and terminate in the eyes 6, 6, which closely encircle the
offsets of their respective shanks, as clearly shown.
.
When constructed as shown in Figures 5 and 6, the wire, after the single loop 1
has been formed, is twisted so that the double registering loops 5, 5, stand in a plane
at right-angles to the plane of the single loop, as shown in the drawings. It is
obvious that we do not confine ourselves to the exact inclinations of the several
curves or bends, as various minor changes or deflections may be made without
departing from the spirit of our invention.
The double registering loops 5, 5, may be formed of any preferred size, from the
size shown in Figures 1 to 6, down to the small round loops or eyes shown in
Figures 7 and 8, this latter size being for some purposes preferable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A chain link formed of a single piece of wire bent at its center to form the
single loop, the side wires being then offset towards each other at the termination

page_text: each other, and then curved to form the two registering loops, the ends of the wire
running back and passing through the single loop, and terminating in eyes which
closely encircle the offsets of their respective shanks, substantially as set forth.
2. A chain link formed of a single piece of wire, bent at its center to form the
single loop, the side wires being then offset towards each other at the termination
of said loop, then offset again in the general direction of the link, extending and
crossing each other, and then curved to form the two registering loops which extend
in the same plane with the single loop forming the other half of the link, the ends
of the wire running back past the central offsets, passing through the single loop,
and terminating in the eyes which closely encircle the offsets of their 'respective
shanks; substantially as set forth.
Dated this 18th day of December 1894.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.