US Patent Issued to GRAM EQUIPMENT on April 7 for "Chain construction" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,131, issued on April 7, was assigned to GRAM EQUIPMENT A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Chain construction" was invented by Jan Kjaer Larsen (Sdr. Stenderup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chain link is provided with a bushing construction where a chain pin is used for connecting a plurality of chain links, where the chain pin is inserted through the bushing along an axis, where the bushing in a cross section orthogonal to the axis has a circular cross section and where a resilient sleeve is arranged around the chain pin, where the chain pin has a flat face along the axis, and the resilient sleeve has a corresponding flat face in e...