US1164450A

US1164450A - Bag-tie.

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Publication number: US1164450A
Application number: US68366512A
Authority: US
Inventors: Adelmer M Bates
Original assignee: BATES VALVE BAG CO
Current assignee: BATES VALVE BAG Co
Priority date: 1912-03-14
Filing date: 1912-03-14
Publication date: 1915-12-14
Anticipated expiration: 1932-12-14

Description

A. M. BATES.

BAG TIE.

y APPucATloN FILED 1111111.14, 1912.

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ADELMER IVI. BATES, F CHICAGO, ILLINCIS, ASSIGNOR TO BATES VALVE BAG COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

BAG-TIE.

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Specification of Letters'4 Patent.

Patented Dee. II., I9I5.

T0 all lwhom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ADELMER M. BATES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State a of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bag-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a tie, particularly such as is applicable to the closure of pack- IC ages and especially iexible bags.

Its object is to provide a tie which shall contain a minimum length of Wire, shall be easily untied or untwisted, shall have no dangerous projecting end portions, shall 115 have convenient means for the attachment of a tag, and shall Vhave other advantages such as are hereinafter pointed out. l

One illustration of my invention is set forth in the accompanying drawings, wherenl Figure 1 is a plan view of a bag with my tie in position for twisting; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a bag with' my tie attached; 3 is a similar side elevation with the tag attached; Fig. 4 is the side elevation of a bag to which my tie has been attached and from which it has been untied.

Like parts are indicated by the same letters in all the figures.

A is a bag and B the crimped end thereof, C is the bent portion of the tie, D the free fiexible end preferably having the enlargement E, F is a closed loop forming the other end6 of the tie and G is the twist. It will be understood, of course, that these illustrations are to be taken as more or less diagrammatic and that the size, proportion and arrangement of the several parts can be greatly varied without departing fro-m the I@ spirit'of the invention. The tie is made -in the process `of tying the package. I shall describe itin connection with the tie ofl a bag either empty or filled, but it will be un- W derstood thatthe description will apply w equally to other devices or packages.

The use and operation of my invention are as follows: A wire, preferably from a .spool is preferably upset or provided with a head at its outer end. It is then carried around the crimped portion of the bag and its two parts brought together so as to tightly compress such crimped portion. If

.a loop isrdesired, the wireis now severed and bent over so as to form such loop. The A inner end `of the looper portion should be approximately at the point where the lower l end of the twist of... the completed tie is found. This bending over of the wire to form the loop makes a relatively rigid or stout unyielding portion. The two ends, one thus looped and the other free and single and therefore relatively yielding and relatively long, are brought closely together about the bag, preferably without being overlapped, though they may overlap if that is desired.' The are then twisted together until as illustrated theftwo projecting ends consist onel of a` relatively rigid double base portion "and a loop, the other of a long single relativelyxflexible portion.

When now it becomes necessary to untie the bag the long end can be grasped between the thumb and finger and rotated about the short stubby rigid end with a crank-like motion rapidly and easily. There is'no projecting end to injure the operator or the fabric of the package because one endis looped and the other {is provided with a head. When the tag is to be applied, the long flexible end can be run through the eyelet and then carried back therethrough and'attached to the loop as indicated. If no tag is to be applied and no loop is desired,

then after the wire has been brought about.

the crimped end of the bag either before or after the twisting, the wire may be severed at a point where such severed end will be at the top of the "twisted portion of the completed tie. This makes such severed end a short end, as compared with the long flexible end, with a relatively rigid projecting part so that the long end may be as before grasped between the thumb and finger and by'a crank-like motion untwisted from the short stubby rigid end. In either case the untwisting is much easier than whereboth ends are simultaneously manipulated to affect the untwisting. In the latter case, there is, of course, no projecting end to injure the operator or the fabric.

I claim: v

1. A bag tie comprising a section adapted to inclose the crimped portion of a bag, a`

reinforced short section extending beyond said inclosing section at one end and a long,

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2. A bag tie comprising asection adapted Il@ to inclose the crimpedA portion of a bag, a reinforced short section extending beyond said inclosing section at one end and terininating in loop, and a long, flexible section extending beyond the inclosing section at the other end, the iexible section twisted around the reinforced section to complete the tiel on the bag.

3. A bag tie comprising a section adapted to inc lose the crimped portion of a bag, a' reinforced short section extending beyond said inclosing section at one end and formed by twisting one portion of the tie on another, and a long,` 4flexible section extending beyond the inclosing section at the other 16 end, the exible section twisted around the reinforced section to complete the tie on the ba i igned at Chicago, Illinois, this 2nd day of `Merch, 1912. p ADELMER M. BATES.

Witnesses:

MINNIE M. LINDENAN, MINNm I. SUNDFAR.