Chain saw chain

Claim 1

IN A CHAIN SAW, THE COMBINATION OF A GUIDE BAR WITH A DRIVE SPROCKET HAVING DRIVE TEETH ON THE PERIPHERY THEREOF JOURNALED ON ONE END PORTION THEREOF, AND AN ENDLESS CUTTER CHAIN WHICH IS ENGAGED ABOUT THE SPROCKET AND GUIDED IN A CLOSED PROLATE LOOP EXTENDING UP AND DOWN THE LENGTH OF THE BAR, SAID CHAIN BEING COMPRISED OF SUCCESSIVELY PIVOTALLY INTERCONNECTED LINKS WHICH ARE ALTERNATELY ADAPTED AS CUTTER AND RAKER LINKS FOR THE SAW, THE RAKER LINKS OF WHICH HAVE PAIRS OF DRIVE TEETH DEPENDING FROM THE BODIES THEREOF WHICH ARE IN SUBSTANTIALLY UPRIGHT ALIGNMENT WITH THE PIVOT POINTS IN THE LINKS AND INDIVIDUALLY OPERATIVELY INTERPOSED IN THE RECESSES BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE DRIVE TEETH ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE SPROCKET, THE SPROCKET TEETH BEING INTERPOSED, IN TURN, ALTERNATELY IN (1) THE RECESSES BETWEEN THE PAIRS OF DRIVE TEETH ON THE RAKER LINKS AND (2) THE RECESSES BETWEEN ADJACENT DRIVE TEETH ON ADJACENT RAKER LINKS, OPPOSITE THE BODIES OF THE CUTTER LINKS IN THE CHAIN; THE PITCH INTERVAL BETWEEN THE DRIVE TEETH ON EACH RAKER LINK BEING LESS THAN THE PITCH INTERVAL BETWEEN ADJACENT DRIVE TEETH OF ADJACENT RAKER LINKS, AND THE DRIVE TEETH IN CORRESPONDING POSITIONS ON THE RAKER LINKS HAVING ARCUATE FACES ON ONE SIDE THEREOF WHICH ARE SWUNG FROM CENTERS SUBSTANTIALLY COINCIDENT WITH THE PIVOT POINTS ALIGNED THEREWITH, WITH THE SPROCKET RECESSES RECEIVING SAID RAKER LINK DRIVE TEETH BEING CORRESPONDINGLY CONTOURED TO PROVIDE FOR SURFACE TO SURFACE CONTACT BETWEEN THE TEETH AND THE RECESSES, BETWEEN THE POINTS AT WHICH THE CHAIN IS REELED ONTO AND UNREELED FROM THE SPROCKET, AND THE REMAINING SPROCKET RECESSES BEING ANGULARLY ENLARGED IN RELATION TO THE ANGULAR WIDTH OF THE REMAINING DRIVE TEETH OF THE RAKER LINKS WHICH ARE RECEIVED THEREIN SO THAT THE LATTER DRIVE TEETH AND RECESSES CAN SMOOTHLY ENGAGE AND DISENGAGE WITH AND FROM ONE ANOTHER AT THE POINTS IN WHICH THE CHAIN IS REELED ONTO AND UNREELED FROM THE SPROCKET.