Title: Link component for trawling gear

Abstract: A link component for use in trawling gear which is made of metal and has at one end a closed loop, the other end having two projecting arms which, together with part of the loop, provide a clevis or shackle, the arms of which have apertures to receive a connecting pin for connection to an end link of a chain and wherein the loop is sufficiently wide at its end remote from the shackle to receive a pair of couplers for two wire ropes or chains and wherein at least one of the wide pieces of the closed loop is provided with a recess or flat sufficiently wide to enable a hook of predetermined size to be hooked onto the loop provided the throat of the hook is correctly orientated.

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Inventors: Buschini, Anthony Alan (Fleetwood, EN)
Swarsbrick, Douglas Edward (Stourport-on-Severn, EN)

Application Number: 498767
Filing Date: 1974-08-19
Publication_date: 1976-06-15
Assignee: Parsons Controls Limited (Stourport on Severn, EN)
Primary Class(es): 24/684 24/698.1, 24/700, 59/86, 294/82.1
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

975323	Nov, 1910	Brown	24/230.
1072263	Sep, 1913	Shaw	24/230.
3280438	Oct, 1966	Luketa	24/201.
3863441	Feb, 1975	Kaufmann	294/82.

Other Refs: 718,15416,908389,373

Mar, 1942	DD
Jul, 1894	UK
Mar, 1933	UK

Primary Examiner: Gelak, Bernard A.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Baldwin, Wight & Brown