US1423478A - Bundled wire - Google Patents

Description

S. C. CARY.

BUNDLED WIRE.

APPLICATION FILED APPLE, I922.

Patented July 18, 1922.

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BUNDLED WIRE.

IIA2EAWSO Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1922.

Application filed April 3, 1922. Serial No. 549,122.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SPENCER C. CARY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Bundled Wire, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to bundled wire, the objects in view being to retain lengths of wire in compact relation during shipment and storage, and to afford protection to the end portions of the lengths composing the bundle so that said end portions are not bent or injured.

In the art of binding shipping packages of one form or another, it is customary to use wire as the binding agent for such packages, but in view of the common practice of putting up wire coils or bundles, it becomes necessary to straighten such wire prior to using the same as a binder for such packages with a view to efiecting such application of the binder with facility and at the required tension.

According to this invention, the wire is straightened, out to the length desired, and assembled to produce a compact bundle. Means are provided for retaining the cut lengths of wire in the required compact relation, and for encasing the end portions of the wires composing said bundle, said encasing of the wire ends being desirable, more particularly, in connection with bundles composed of wires the end portions of which are preformed to adapt said wires for use as binders in conjunction with appropriate means for applying tension to said wire during the operations of positioning the wires around the packages and of uniting the end portions'of said wires after tension shall have been applied thereto.

Said encasing means is embodied, in one practical form, as a metal cap fitted to the end portion of a bundle composed of assembled wires, and with the metal cap is associated two or more of the wires entering into the composition of the bundle, said two or more wires passing through the cap so as to protrude from it, and said protruding ends of the wires being locked in position by appropriate means whereby the cap is looked upon the end portions of the wire bundle. a

A cap is applied to the respective ends of the bundle for retaining the wires. againstendwise movement so that they remain in the required compact order within said bundle, and said caps protect from injury or bending the end portions of said wires, such protection being desirable more particularly in bundles the wires of which are preformed for co-operative relation to an appropriate tensioning means. Other functions and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description taken in connection with the drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a wire bundle the end portions of which are capped, said view showing certain of the wires long enough to protrude beyond said caps.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a capped end portion of the wire bundle, illustrating the means for locking the cap fixedly in position.

Figure 3 is a view partly in section andwith preformed wires composing the bundle in elevation, illustrating the mode of cutting certain of said wires and of removing the cap while leaving such' cut wires in such condition as to be available for use as package binders, thereby avoiding waste and the loss of the cut wires for use as binders.

The bundle A is composed of a desired number of wires B, the individual wires having been straightened and cut to length prior to assemblage to compose the bundle.

Obviously, the wires are uniform as to diameter and length, and in some instances, it is preferred to use preformed wire, as in Figure 3, the pieces or lengths B of which are straightened, cut to length, and shouldered as at b by flattening the wire as at 6' adjacent an end portion thereof.

C is a cap fitted upon the end portion of the bundle, it being preferred to employ a cap at each end of the bundle. The cap may be composed of any material suitable for the purpose, and it may be of any appropriate form or construction. As shown, the cap comprises a shell 0 and a head 0, the latter being apertured at 05, said cap may be desirably formed in a single piece of drawn seamless metal by blanking the metal and drawing it in a manner well known to the art to produce a cup shaped metal part adapted to be slipped easily upon the pre-v formed end portions 6 of the wires composing the bundle. The metal cap, or each ca is desirably locked in position upon the en s of the bundled wire, and according to this invention such locking of the cap is effected by utilizing certain componentsof the bundle, e. g., two or more of the wires B.

The bundle is composed almost wholly of wires cut to a determined length, but two or more of such wires, indicated at B, are somewhat longer than the remainder of the wires assembled in the bundle, such longer wires B having their end portions e projecting beyond the preformed portions 6 thereof. Said longer ends 6 of wires B pass throu h the apertures d providedin the head of cap C, .so as to protrude outside of said cap, and said protruding wire ends are doubled as at f around the edge of the cap, the doubled part of the longer w1re ends lying parallel to the shell of said cap, exteriorl thereto, see F1 ures 2 and 3.

A retainer D is positioned into contact with the shell of the cap, and said reta ner co-operates with the doubled end portlons e of the longer wires B for holding the cap in position upon the bundle end. Sa1d retainer is shown as a ring composed of w re positioned around the bundle and with its ends tied by twisting said ends together at d. The retainer contacts with the edge of the cap, and said retainer and the longer wires B are disposed in co-operative relation to each other and to the cap by looping the longer wires B as at g around the retainer, see Figure 3.

As stated, the wire is prepared at a wire mill by coiling the same, and it is shipped in such coiled condition. In preparing the wire prior to the formation of the bundle, it is necessary to straighten such wire, and to cut it according to the length desired for use as binders to be applied to a shipping package, and, in some cases, such wire is performed during the straightening and cutting operations, or subsequently thereto, by flattening such wire adjacent one or both end portions, with a View to producing a shoulder or shoulders adapted to serve as abutments and to coact with the other abutments forming elements of a tensioning means, the latter constituting certain oper= ative parts of an applying implement or machine whereby the wires are utilized as binders on shipping packages. A desired number of the straightened, cut and preformed wires B are assembled into-parallel compact relation to produce the bundle, and

in addition thereto a desired number (two or more) of the longer wires B are assembled, usually on the outside of the bundle. A cap C is now slipped upon the bundle, usually one at each end, the end portions 0 of said longer wires B passing through the perforat ns d in the cap, thus p otruding asagna beyond the capped end of the bundle. The cap is adjusted, into compact relation to the bundle, the wires B of which are in abutlel relation to the cap, exteriorly thereto,

The retainer D is now fitted tightly around the bundle wireand into contact with the cap, whereupon the ends 6 of the longer wires B are looped or bent around the retainer, thus completing the assemblage of the parts for retaining and protecting the bundle ends. If desired, a binder of cord or wire may be threaded through or has tened aroundd the wire bundle intermediate the ends thereof or the caps C.

My invention affords means for holding the individual wires against longitudinal displacement with respect to the bundle, as well as retaining the wires in compact order, and for protecting the Wire ends from bending during bundling or shipment, or becoming otherwise injured. The cap encases the end portions of the wires, and the preformed portions thereof when such preformed wires are assembled to produce the bundle, and this cap is in abutting relation to the ends of the wires, and said cap is locked in position upon the end of the bundle. No waste or loss of wire is occasioned by utilizing certain of the wires entering into the composition of the bundle-as the means for locking the cap upon the end of said bundle, for the reason that such longer wires B are adapted to be served, as indicated at h in Figure 3, in order to free or release the cap C from the restraint of the longer wires B, such portions of the longer wires When out at It being removable with the cap C and the retainer D from the end of bundle, leaving the remainder of the wires B as components of said bundle, and such wires B, with the longer ends e cut off, being available for use as package binders with the same facility as other wires B, even though said longer wires B are preformed as described for use in connection with an applying implement or machine.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

' 1. A commercial package embodying a multiplicity of elements in lengths, means against which the ends of the elements engage, certain of said elements extended beyond said means and secured intermediate the ends of the elements to retain said means fixedly relatively to the ends of the elements.

2. A commercial package embodying a multiplicity of wires in lengths, means against which the ends of the wires engage certain of said wires being extended through id means and secured in ermemea re diate the ends of the wires to retain said means fixedly relatively to the ends of the wlres.

3. A commercial package embodying a multiplicity of Wires in lengths, and endencasing means, certain of said wires serving as retaining means and cooperable with the end-encasing means to prevent endwise movement of the remainder-of the wires.

4. Bundled Wire comprising a multiplicity of wires in lengths with some of said wires greater in length than others, means embracing the end of said Wires and preventing relative endwise movement thereof, the wires of greater length being extended through the end-embracingmeans and secured to retain the wires of the bundle and the end-embracing means in compact relatively immovable relation.

5. A commercial package embodying a multiplicity of wires in lengths, means for encasin the ends of said wires, certain of said wires being looped into engagement with the end-encasing means, and a separate retainer for-said looped wires.

6. A commercial bundle composed of a multiplicity of package-binding elements all of which are usable as such, and means encasing the ends ofthe elements forming said bundle and fixedly retained thereon by certain of said elements to prevent endwise movement of said elements relatively to each other. i

7. A commercial bundle composed of a multiplicity of package-binding wires all ofwhich are usable as such, substantially all I the wires composing said bundle being unirelatively to each other. 1

form as to length, and means encasing the ends of said wires forming the bundle and in abutting contact with the individual wires thereof, said end-encasing means fixedly retained by certain of said elements on the end portion of the,bundle to prevent endwise movement of the individual wires 8. A commercial, package formed of bundled wire composed of preformed straightened pieces uniform as to lengthforming an enlargement near the; end, a cap encasing the preformed potrions of-said individual pieces, and-means for fixedly retaining the cap in contacting relation to said pieces composing the bundle.

-9. Bundled wire composed of straightened pieces substantially uniform as to length some of the wires associated with saiduniform pieces being .of greater length, and

a cap in abutting relation to the pieces uniform as to length, said longer wires protruding through said cap and occupying a fixed relation thereto. 10. Bundled. wire com osed of individual pieces substantially uni orm as to length belng the longer ends of certain wires protruding through said cap, andmeans co-operating with said protruding wire ends for locking the cap on the bundle end.

12. Bundled wire composed of individual pieces substantially uniform as to length, said bundle including other wire pieces as component parts thereof, the length of which exceeds said individual pieces, a cap encasing the end portion of the wire bundle,

with the longer ends of certain wires protruding through said cap, and in locked relation thereto, said longer wires being adapted'to be cut exteriorly to the cap and said out ends with the cap being removable from the bundle to-leave the remainder of the severed wires intact as a component of said bundle.

13. Bundled wire-composed of individual pieces substantially uniform as to length, said bundle including other wirev pieces as component parts thereof, the length of which exceeds said individual pieces, a cap fitted to the end of said bundle with the ends of the longer wires protruding through the cap, said longerends being doubled relatively to the cap, and a retainer co-operating with the protruding ends of the longer wires.

14:- Bnndled wire composed of individual pieces ,substantiall uniform as to length, said bundle including other wire-pieces as component arts thereof, the length of which exceeds said individual pieces, and a cap encasingthe bundle end and retained inabutting contact with the wires by a locking engagement with the longer wires, said longer wiresbeing adapted to be severed exteriorly to the cap and said cap with the severed wire ends being removable from the bundle end; 15. A commercial package formed of bundled wire the end of which package isencased by a cap, and a retainer encircling the package and cooperating with certain of the wires forming. a component part of the bundle whereby the ca is retained fixedly in position upon the en portion of the packlit testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name this 30th day of March, 1922.

SPENCER C. GARY.

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