US1088530A

US1088530A - Package-tie.

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Publication number: US1088530A
Application number: US73725012A
Authority: US
Inventors: Fritz Buse
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-12-17
Filing date: 1912-12-17
Publication date: 1914-02-24
Anticipated expiration: 1931-02-24

Description

F. BUSH.

PACKAGE TIE.

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FRITZ BUSE, OF TERRA NOVA, LULU ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

PACKAGE-TIE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2st, 1914:.

Application filed. December 17, 1912. Serial No. 737,250.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnrrz BUsn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Terra Nova, Lulu Island, in the Province of British Columbia and Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Package-Ties, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates to a package tie for use especially in tying trunks, bales, or boxes, and has for an object to provide a device of this character which is very durable and which may be readily applied upon the article to be tied so as to securely tie the same.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character comprising a flexible tie member and a connection between the meeting ends of the same in the form of a clamping lever, whereby a tight fastening may be obtained.

The invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a package having a. tie constructed in accordance with the invention applied thereto; and, Fig. 2 is a fragmentary side elevation of the tie showing the clamping lever in its inoperative position.

Referring to the drawing, it will be seen that I have provided a package-tie which adapted especially for use upon boxes, trunks, or bales, and which may be operated in the act of applying or detaching the same from the box or other article when the said article is in close quarters, as should be understood more fully as the description progresses.

This tie includes a flexible member 16 which is preferably in the -form of a metallic wire, but which may be constructed of a flat strip of metal, or of any other suitable material. In this instance, a head 17 is formed on one end of the member 16 by twisting the wire into the desired shape, and a securing loop 18 is formed in similar manner on the same end of the wire in suitable proximity to the head 17. The opposite end of the member 16 is provided with an attaching loop 1:) for the reception of the pivoting eye member 20, which latter is provided with a stud 21 rotatably mounted within an opening 2:2 in the clamping lever 23 employed in connection with this tie. One arm of this lever is provided with a bifurcated engaging extremity 2a which is adapted to engage the opposite end of the member 16 in close abutment with the head 17, and has its operating arm 25 provided with a slot 26 for the reception of the securing loop 18 when the said lever is in its innermost operative position parallel to the adjacent surface of the article upon which the tie is mounted. A locking pin 27 is adapted to be inserted in the loop 18 after the clamping lever has been placed in engagement therewith so as to lock the lever in this position.

In bringing the clamping lever into its operative position after its engaging extremity has been placed in engagement with the head 17 ot' the tie, the said lever is generally moved tlnough a plane perpendicular to the surface of the bale or other article, but this operation is sometimes impracticable owing to the limited space existing between the said article and another article, a wall or the like. In this case, the lever may be swung in a plane disposed approximately parallel to the surface referred to, owing to the rotatable engagement of the stud 21 of the eye member within the lever opening 22.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be evident that I have provided a simple and eflicient package tie which is adapted for various uses, and which will efi'ectively clamp the package upon which it is used, and which cannot possibly slip or become loosened when in secured position.

hat is claimed is:

A package tie comprising a flexible tie member having its free ends adapted to overlap each other, a head formed upon one end of said member, the other member being bent to form a loop, a clamping lever having an engaging extremity adapted to engage with the said head of the tie member and provided with a medial opening a pivoting member having its body portion rotatably mounted within the opening in the lever and being provided with an eye in the outer end thereof connected with the said loop of the tie member, the said lever In testimony whereof I affiX my signature being adapted to be forced 1nto engagement in presence of two Witnesses.

with the end portion of the tie member bear- FRITZ BUSE ing the head When its engaging extremity 5 is engaged With the head to cause tension Witnesses:

upon the said tie member, and means for G. C. WVooDWARD,

securing the lever in its operative position. J. B. COLVARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.