Conveyor chain link

Claim 1

A CONVEYOR CHAIN LINK MEMBER WHICH COMPRISES, AN INTEGRAL ONE-PIECE METAL FORGING HAVING A CENTRAL BODY PORTION WITH END WALLS, A TOP WALL, SIDE WALLS AND A RECESSED BOTTOM WALL ADAPTED TO RECEIVE A SPROCKET TOOTH, A TONGUE PORTION PROJECTING LONGITUDINALLY AWAY FROM ONE END WALL OF SAID BODY PORTION CENTRALLY THEREOF, A TRANSVERSE PIN PORTION FORMED INTEGRALLY WITH THE END OF SAID TONGUE PORTION AND PROJECTING EQUAL AMOUNTS BEYOND OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID TONGUE PORTION, AND A CLEVIS PORTION PROJECTING FROM THE OPPOSITE END WALL OF SAID BODY PORTION FROM SAID TONGUE PORTION AND INCLUDING A PAIR OF FINGERS INITIALLY EXTENDING ANGULARLY OUTWARDLY OF SAID END WALL AND BODY PORTION AND EACH HAVING AN APERTURE EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY THERETHROUGH, SAID FINGERS BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE TONGUE PORTION OF AN IDENTICAL CHAIN LINK MEMBER THEREBETWEEN AND BEING SUFFICIENTLY DUCTILE TO ACCOMMODATE BENDING FROM INITIAL POSITIONS DIVERGING LATERALLY FROM SAID BODY PORTION TO REGISTER WITH THE PIN PORTION OF AN IDENTICAL LINK MEMBER INTO POSITIONS SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL WITH THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE IDENTICAL LINK MEMBER AND BEING QUENCH HARDENABLE AFTER ASSEMBLY TO REMAIN IN FIXED PARALLEL RELATION WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER AND THEREBY RETAIN THE PIN PORTION OF A NEXT ADJACENT LINK MEMBER IN ARTICULATED RELATIONSHIP THEREWITH, AND SAID PIN PORTION HAVING A TOTAL LENGTH GREATER THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID FINGERS WHEN IN FIXED PARALLEL RELATION WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER.