Improved coupling link

Chain – staple – and horseshoe making – Chains – Links

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114293, F16G 1504

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041798783

ABSTRACT:
The disclosure embraces a mooring system of the type used to anchor floating bodies with a vessel having a plurality of rollers for taking up and laying sections of cable which are joined together by an improved hinge link; at one end, the cable is secured to a floating body, at an intermediate portion to an anchor and, at its other end, when the system is installed, to the body that is to be moored; the sections of mooring cable are joined together by a hinge link having two U-shaped half-links where the free ends of the U-shaped half-links are formed with fingers having through bores which interfit with the fingers on the other half-link; a retaining pin is provided with a head and shank portion which fits through the bores of the fingers; the head of the pin has a flat side to prevent the pin from rolling when placed on a surface; the shank of the pin is provided with a bore intermediate its ends for receiving a cotter pin and the midpoint of the shank of the pin is provided with flat sections to permit grasping and rotation of the pin by a tool to facilitate insertion and removal of the cotter pin.

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