US1085938A - Bale-tie. - Google Patents

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T. S. PEARSON & T. M. DONNER.

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gJ/wu UNTED @Fidi THOMAS S. PEARSON AND THEODOBE M. CONNER, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA, ASSGNORS 0F ONE-THIRD T0 JOHN B. DOUGAN, 0F RICHMOND, INDIANA.

BALE-TIE.

1 ,085,938. i Specimtim 0'1 IMM" Patent Patented lieb. 3, time.

. Application ated August 19, 1812. Serial No. 715,8150.

To all whom, it may concern.'

Be it known that we, THOMAS S. Pansen and Tilizouoim M. Comma, both citizens of the United States,'residin;.i,l at Kokomo, in the county of Howard, and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ties, of which the followin is a full, clear, and comprehensive specification, being such as will enable others to make and use the same with absolute exactitude.

Our present invention relates to ties to be formed of wire or other suitable material, same being more particularly intended for connecting the two ends of a wire which encircles a bale of material, such as hay or straw, which is being formed in a suitable machine invented by us and which. forms the subject matter of another ap lication not yet presented t0 the Patent O 'ce' The object of our invention is to form a tie of the end portions of a wire, which will be neat and attractive in appearance, strong and durable in construction and simple in formation, same being adapted :to be formed while the wire is under tension, land also boing adapted to yield to a certain extent after the tension has been released.

A more jmrticular object is to provide a bale-tie adapted to be formed automatically by machinery; to provide a tie or knot adapted to be formed of the two ends of a wire and while the wire is under tension; and to provide a tio which is adapted to adjust. itself and equalize the tension after the tensioning means have been released.

Other minor objects and articular ad# vautages of our invention wi l be apparent from au inspection of the accompanying' drawings uml the speeitication relating thereto.

'l'he manner of the construction of our invention is shown in the accompanying draw ings, in whieh Figure l shows the two end portions ot`- a wire 'from which we propose to form a tie. Fig. 2 shows a wire shaped to surround a bale, the tie being shown as having just been made and before the pressure has been released from the bale. And Fig. 3 shows a wire shaped to surround a bale, the tie havinf.l been completed and the pressure having'.

ie tie as having; or nearly so.

been released, and showing t dposition enote hice parte througlu assumed its final Similar indices out the several views of the one sheet ot' drawings.

:[n'ordei` that the formation and the advantages 0f our invention may be more fully understood and appreciated we will now take up a detailed description thereof in which we will set forth the invention as briefly and as comprehensively as we may.

ln the drawinfrs A denotes the body or central portion ot a length of wire surround iug or adapted to surround, a bale.

and C denote the termini of the wire A, there being a surplus end-portion adjoiniin:r each of the termini, from which latter the tie proper is formulated. In practice the wire is placed tightly around a bale by machinery and while the bale is still under great pressure, and the wire under tension, the tie is formed automatically by the ma.- ehine. The tie is formed near one corner of and it first extends at right angles to the longer side thereof asin Fig. 2.

'lhe tie is formed by first making a double, loop, that is forming a loop of part of each surplus end portion of the wire, the two surplus end portions having first been brought parallel to each other as in Fig. l, and the two loops are formed at one time and are complements of cach other. The unused parts of the end portions of the wire, that is the parts remaining between the loops and the termini, are then tightly twisted helieully together around the end portions of the wire between the loops und the port ions ot' the main bodv A oi" the wire which extend over the end oi' the side ot' the bale, thereby torminar the tie as shown in Fig. 2, which at. this time is a yielding` tie` that. is it is adapted to lYield to u limited extent. when under irreal. orsurplus pressure. After the pressure is released from the press holding the bale and the wire, then the expansive force. will canse the tie to eontort lfrom its original form shown in Fin'. 2 to the position shown in Fig. il, wherein the pressure ot' the bale has been allowed to adjust. itselt. From the above it is apparent. that. the tie is capable of seit adjustment, equalizing the pressure. Otherwise, that. is if theI tie were formed rigid und non-expansible the wire might be broken but by forming a. limited expansive tie we provide `moana whereby the pressure on all the wires and the ties willfbe substantially uniform under all conditions.

Having now fully shown and described lltl our invention, what we claim and desire to the said loops being adapted to decrease in 1s ,Y

secure by Letters Patent of the United size by the expanslve force of the bale cx- Stetes, iserted up'on` the body of the wire after the A eldable bale-tie, com rising in comtie is formed, all substantially as shown and 5 binatlon, a single length o wire havin a described.

body portion to surround a bale, the surp us In testimony whereof we have hereunto 2e end portions of the wire laid parallel with subscribed our names to this specification in ouch other and formed into a double loop, the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

the parallel end ortions, after said loop 1s a 1 J formed being coi ed around the double portions oi the wire between the loo and the A l bod of the wire which surroun s the bale, Witnessem sai loops and coils being wholly outside the JOHN B. J Oron, body of the wire which surrounds the bale, AGNES Riesen.

Copie ot this patent mmv bn obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patente. Washington, D. 0.

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