US1322168A

US1322168A - Package-tie

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Publication number: US1322168A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1919-11-18
Anticipated expiration: 1936-11-18

Description

W. B. HANNER AND J. W. ADAMS.

' PACKAGE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 13.1918.

Patented N 0V. 4919.-

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PACKAGE-TIE.

Application filed February 13, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ILLIAM B. I'IAN- NEH and JOHN IV. Ansmrs, citizens of the United States, residing at Sikeston, in the county of Scott and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Package-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to package ties, the object in view being to provide a; simple, easily manipulated, reliable and cheap device of the character referred to which may be used for tying u bundles of letters, books, and packages of all kinds.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as herein described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a plan view showing the improved tie in its relation to a package.

Fig. 2 is a detail view of the cord grip.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing a slight addition to the grip.

The improved package tie comprises a. flexible cord 1 of any desired length. In additionto the cord 1, the package tie comprises a cord grip which is formed of a si gle length of spring wire to impart the necessary resiliency and cord gripping properties thereto. A suitable length of wire is recurved centrally upon itself to form an eye 2 from which arm like portions 3 extend somewhat divergently in relation to each other, the object of which is to give the arms 3 a normal'tendency to spring away from each other, thereby increasing the grip tension on the cord as will be apparent in Fig. 1. At points intermediate their length, the arms 3 are recurved outwardly as shown at and after extending a short distance, they are again recurved as shown at 5, and extended across the recurved portions 4 and then onward in the same general divergent direction, the extreme end portions of the arms being recurved to form rounded extremities or eyes 5 which will do away with all projecting points which might interfere with the dextrous manipulation of the cord in wrapping the same around the cord grip. The cord 1 is fastened to the eye2 and after passing the cord one or more times around Specification of lletters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18, 1919.

Serial No. 216,906.

the package, the cord is carried over one of the loop like projecting branches 6 of the cord grip, where it is frictionally grasped between such loop like portions 6 of the adjacent part of the arm 3. The cord is then carried across and wrapped around the op positely located loop like portion 6 of the cord grip in the same manner as previously described. It is preferred to wrap the cord after the manner of the numeral 8 'and as many wrappings may be given to the cord as may be found desirable or necessary. The arms 3 by having a normal tendency to spring away from each other, serve to keep the wrappings taut or under snfiicient tension to prevent them from escaping from the wedge like spaces in which they lie between the arms 3 and the loop like portions 6 of the cord grip.

In some cases, it may be found desirable to employ a U-shaped clip 7 which may be inserted through the eye 2 and to which the cord 1 may be fastened. As the clip 7 may be rocked in the eye 2, either upwardly or downwardly or beyond one side or the other, said clip imparts additional flexibility to the connection between the cord and cord grip.

We claim:

1. In a package tie, a cord grip having an eye at one end to which said cord is fastened, said cord grip comprising diverging arms having a normal tendency to spring away from each other, said arms being recurved approximately centrally between the ends thereof and extended in the opposite direction, then recurved again and extended across the first point where they are recurved and then extended in the same general direction as before, thereby forming two spaced loop like cord gripping portions around which a cord is adapted to be wrapped and which portions by virtue of their connection with the spring arms designed to exert an outward pressure from each other whereby to hold the cord taut therebetween.

2. In a package tie, a cord grip comprising diverging arms having a normal tendency to spring away from each other, said arms being recurved between the ends thereof and extended in the opposite direction then reourved again and extended curved to form rounded extremities or eyes, across the first point where they are refor the purpose specified.

curved and then extended in the same gen- In testimony whereof we aflix our sig- 10 eral direction as before, thereby forming natures.

loop like cord gripping portions around which a cord is adapted to be wrapped, the WILLIAM B. HANNEL. extreme end portions of said arms being re- JOHN W. ADAMS.