Patent ID: 8047745

Claim:
A connection element for light profiles intended for use in a sheet pile wall, said connection element comprising a base strip for attaching to a component of the sheet pile wall and a hook strip attached to one side of the base strip for engaging an interlock of a light profile, wherein the hook strip encloses an inner chamber and exhibits a straight connection section that originates at the base strip and runs at least approximately at a right angle to the longitudinal direction of the base strip, and a hook section that follows the connection section and runs in an arc-like manner for at least 180°, the free end of said hook section together with said one side of the base strip defining a jaw, an improvement wherein a ratio between the greatest inner width (a) of the inner chamber of the hook strip viewed in a direction parallel to a longitudinal direction of the connection section, on the one hand, to the width (c) of a jaw opening between a free end of the hook section and said one side of the base strip, on the other, as viewed in a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction of the connection section, is in a range between 2.6 and 2.9.