A chain link for a multi-link conveyor chain of an overhead-conveyor installation, which is rigidly connectable to a towing drive chain, wherein the chain link is configured to convey an overhead-conveyor adapter by means of a lateral frictional connection acting horizontally transversal to a conveying direction, and wherein the chain link comprises: a main body, which is movable along the conveying direction and which is supportable horizontally transversal to the conveying direction substantially rigidly within a guiding profile along which the chain link is guided; a pivotal body, which is connected to the main body, and is pivotable from a starting position substantially horizontally transversal to the conveying direction into a releasing position, wherein the starting position substantially corresponds to an engaging position in which the adapter is carried by the chain link; and a spring element arranged between the main body and the pivotal body, and forcing, preferably in a biased state of the spring element, the pivotal body into the engaging position; wherein the main body and the pivotal body are configured to hold, in the engaging position by means of the spring element, a carrying portion of the adapter horizontally transversal to the conveying direction in a force-closed manner between each other, so that the adapter of the chain link is towable in the conveying direction, wherein the main body and the pivotal body are coupled to each other by means of a pivotal axis, and characterized in that the pivotal body comprises, at a downstream face surface, a recess corresponding to a nose at an upstream face surface of the pivotal body such that other pivotal bodies are co-deflected by the nose when the pivotal body is laterally deflected horizontally by a blocked adapter. a main body, which is movable along the conveying direction and which is supportable horizontally transversal to the conveying direction substantially rigidly within a guiding profile along which the chain link is guided; a pivotal body, which is connected to the main body, and is pivotable from a starting position substantially horizontally transversal to the conveying direction into a releasing position, wherein the starting position substantially corresponds to an engaging position in which the adapter is carried by the chain link; and a spring element arranged between the main body and the pivotal body, and forcing, preferably in a biased state of the spring element, the pivotal body into the engaging position; wherein the main body and the pivotal body are configured to hold, in the engaging position by means of the spring element, a carrying portion of the adapter horizontally transversal to the conveying direction in a force-closed manner between each other, so that the adapter of the chain link is towable in the conveying direction, wherein the main body and the pivotal body are coupled to each other by means of a pivotal axis, and characterized in that the pivotal body comprises, at a downstream face surface, a recess corresponding to a nose at an upstream face surface of the pivotal body such that other pivotal bodies are co-deflected by the nose when the pivotal body is laterally deflected horizontally by a blocked adapter.