US206335A - Improvement in chain-links - Google Patents

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G. KAMP?. Chain-Link.

No. 206,335 @ah-)Med july 23,1878.

W'ITNES ES Y INVENTOR. MMA W/& W

ATTORNEYS GEORGE Kili-arr, o'F'UTIeA, Nnwyenfk.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIN-LINKS.

Specification Forming part of Letters IatcntNo. 206,335, dated July 23, 1F78; application filed June 15,1878.

To all whom it may concern: l marked c. This end e is dovetailed, beveled, Be it known that 1,GEORGE KAMPF, of the and adapted in allrespects' to fit within the city of Utica, in the county of 'Oneida and recess a wheiLiu use. When the end c of loop State of New Yorlqhave invented a new and C is in position for use it assumes the posi' valuable Improvement in Chain-Links; and I tion shown on Fig. 1, in which it is held sedo hereby declare that the following is a full, eurely for longitudinal draft, and can only be clear, and exact description of the eonstrucreleased byaside movementsulieientto force tion and operation ofthe same, reference being,` it sidewise, in one direction only, ont ot the "had-totheannexed drawings, makinguapart recess a. t i. g` i A c c of this specification, and to the letters and g- Mylinkis usual] y and preferably constructed ures of reference marked thereon. of malleable iron; but any suitable metal may Figure'l of the drawings is a representabe employed in its lnanuiacture. .tion of a planviewof my chain-link; and Fig. It is obvious that, in case of breakage ot' a `2 is a plan view, showing free end of thelink. chain, 1n y link can be applied at once to rep My inventionrelates to chains;- and'it conpair the-casualty, no visit to a blacksmith sists in the novel construction ota chain-link, being' required for that'purpose. i as hereinafter described, and pointed out in What I claim as new, and desire to'sccure the claim. by Letters latent, isl A, of the drawings, represents my link, The chain-link described, consisting.;` of the which is formed of'two loops,`marked, respectwhole loop Bf and `jointed loop' (l, made in one ively, 13 and C, united, and prf'esenting,` an expiece, and forming link A, the loop C havin g' terna-l appearance of a figure 8. The loop B a dovetailed free end, c, adapted `lto fit in aotny link is entirely closed, forming a ring, dovetailed recess, a, as and for the purposes set usually oblong in shape, and cannot be opened forth'. f Without breakage.' In the solid portion ot' the Intestilnonythat. l claim the above I have A link, between the loopsBgaud C, and on the hereuntosubscribed mynanle in the presence fend nearest to C, I forma recess, asshownat ot two witnesses. -g f rafl This recess. is dovetailed in shape,and preferablybeveled or inclined from one side to XVitnesses: theothergu-Ifornl the leopdUrwith onev free MM.- JoNlps, ;asJ-.grepreseuted on the drawings, and. 111mm bien.

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