USRE7924E - Improvement in cotton- ble ties - Google Patents

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W. J. CARROLL,

Assignor, by mesne assignments, to the AMERIcAN' (lo'r'rou TIE COMPANY, LIMITED Cotton Bale-Tie.

No. 7,924. Reisued Oct. 23,1877.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,137, dated January 23,1866, Reissue No. 7,924, dated October 23, 1877 application filed September 5, 1877.

i To all whom it may cmwera: the bale is in the press, it follows that, so far out invention.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J CARROLL, of Natchez, in the State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bale-Ties, of which the following is a specification:

The present invention relates to a class of metallic bale-ties which may be designated as 7 a fracture of the parts.

The invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of one end, A, of the ordinary iron band or hoop used on cotton-bales, and provided with slots in accordance with the pres- Fig. 2 is a side View of the other end, B, showing the cleat c and its locking-key d, which take into the slots in the end A; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, showin g the two ends as fastened together when the tie is applied to a bale of cotton or other compressible material.

The holes in the perforated end of the band are narrow,vof uniform width, and elongated in the direction of the length of the band, and the cleat and its key, as well as the rivets that secure them to the band, are correspondingly shaped. This form, both of rivet, of cleat and slot,is adopted in order to secure the requisite strength in the fastening devices with the minimum weakening of the band from cutting away the metal composing its width.

The cleat c is made with a projecting toe, m,

. and the length of the cleat from its toe to its as this element goes, this form of fastening is very reliable.

In order to hold the two ends of the hand against longitudinal movement on each other, and thus tie them together the more securely, the end B is provided with a stud or key, d, which takes into the slots in the perforated end of the band; and in order the better to resist any liability of the two ends to tilt on each other, the heel s of this key may be made somewhat inclined rearwardly, as shown. The notch r in the cleat gives sufficient play to the parts to permit the key to enter its slot readily, and the friction of the inclined heel against the end of the slot, when the parts are drawn taut by the expansion of the bale, opposes measurably any force tending to raise the key from its place. This key is shown as fastened to the band at a distance from the cleat equal to the distance of the two adjacent slots apart.

By thus separating the key from the cleat it serves the additional purpose of bracing the cleat against lateral torsion and strain, and in this respect it acts more efliciently than if it were closed up against, and made to form a simple extension of, the cleat itself.

In order to give greater security to the rivets which hold the cleat and the key, the end of the band is re-enforced by an extra plate of metal, which conveniently is provided by bending over the end of the band upon itself. This gives a more extended bearing for the rivets,

and .permits the cleat to be set nearer the end 3. In combination with a fastening device attached to one end of a metallic bale-tie, and adapted to take into a slot in the other end or etude: key fiastened to the same end at a dis taneefiom sueh device, and. operating to hold the parts against th oe ma orjize I edtothe end-withsnehfastening viee, and dperating to hold the parts against longitudinal play,

substantially-as described.

In combination with a fastening deviee Mtaehed to one end of a metallic bale-tie, a

lateral displacement, substantially as described. Y

5. In combination with an iron bale-tie band,

wetantially as and for the purpose set forth.

.WILLIAM J. GARROLL.

Witnesses:

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R. EMIMETT MAKER.

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