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 . <EOS>