US1565865A - Package-binding implement - Google Patents

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Dec. 15, 1925- 1.565.865

. v v. RAGONA PACKAGE BINDING IMPLEMENT Filed Oct. 5. 1922 7 i) INVENTOI? L ATTORNEY f Patented Dec. 15, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VINCENT RAGONA,*OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CARY MANUFACTURING CO., 01 BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PACKAGE-BINDING- IMPLEMENT.

Application filefl October 5, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT RAcoNA, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Package Binding Implement, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a package binding im plement, wherein a binding element, such as a wire, is passed around a package of one form or another and is placed under tension and locked.

The implement pertains to a rotatable head operable for placing tension on the binding element, and it includes a plurality of grippers positioned for engagement with the binding element in such a manner that the strain of such element so acts upon the gripper as to increase the binding or gripping action of said gripper upon the wire.

The rotatable head is formed wlth a plurality of abutments each positioned in active relation to one of the grippers, and 111 the rotatable movement of the head these abutments are presented for contact with the binding element, as a result of which sald binding element is wound upon one or more of said abutments, dependent upon the extent of rotation of the head, whereby the required tension is placed upon the wire.

Other functions and advantages of tl1e 1nvention will appear from thefollowing description, taken in connection with the drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is an elevation of my rotatable head in conjunction with one form of package binding implement.

Figure 2 is a cross section through the head on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a perspective View of one of the grippers.

In a practical embodiment of the invention, the rotary head, A, is shown as comprising a disk like member, a, prov ded with abutments, b, and a plurality of grippers, 0, two or more in number as desired.

The member, a, is shown as a disk with flat faces and a hub, d, the latter being fixedly attached by suitable means to a shaft B. The abutments, b, are in the shape of segments of a spool or drum, said abutments beingln fixed relation to the disk, a, being made 111- tegral therewith. Said abutments are near the periphery of the disk, and protrude be- Serial No. 592,493.

yond one of the plane surfaces thereof, said abutments being spaced equidistantly so as to leave intervals between them for the free insertion of the binding wire. The abutments are shown as being provided inthe outer segmental faces thereof with a groove or channel, 6, within which is adapted to be received the binding wire in the operation of rotating the head for winding or coilin said wire upon the exteri' r surfaces of sai abutments, whereby the abutments perform the function of a spool or drum for coiling the wire thereon should the head be rotated sufliciently to wind or coil the wire in the operations of taking up slack in such wire and lacing the wire under tension for drawlng said wire into tight engagement with the package to be wired or bound.

Each gripper, c, is shown as a dog pivoted, at f, to the disk, at, of the rotary head for cooperation with the abutments, Z). Said gripper is formed or cast in a single piece with a nose, 9, and a tail piece, it, the gripper being pierced intermediate its ends by the provision of an aperture, 2', through which passes the screw or stud, f, by which the gripper is attached pivotally to the rotary head. Said grippers are positioned for lateral contact with one of the faces of the disklike member, a, the plurality of grippers be ing positioned within the circle described by the segmental abutments, and said grippers being shown as pivotally attached at points equi-distantly positioned on the disk member, a. Each pivoted gripper occupies such relation to the abutments that the tail, h, is free to play or move in the interval between two adjacent abutments, whereas, the nose, g, of said gripper is closed to an inner face of one abutment, 6, near the end there of. This relation is desirable for the reasons that the tail of the gripper is in the path of a wire adapted to be inserted into the space between two of the abutments, so that the tail of the gripper will have contact with said wire, whereas the nose of the gripper is positioned for cooperation with the abutment in a manner for said gripper nose and the abutment opposite thereto will have the desired physical contact with said wire for the purposeof gripping said wire infixed relation to the head.

The wire is insertible easily by moving it laterally through the space between two of the abutments, and between one abutment and the nose ot the adjacent gripper, as shown in Figure l, the tail of said gripper being in contact with the wire. A slight turn of the head or pull on the wire results in the gripper being moved, by the contact of its tail piece with the wire, for the nose of the gripper to bite on the wire and thus to securely retain such wire between the nose of said gripper and the abutment next to said gripper, as clearly shown. The rotation of the head and pull on the wire so acts upon the gripper that it retains the wire in fixed engagement with the head, and thus an increased tension on the wire so all ects the gripper that it is more firmly pressed into contactwith the wire, and the wire is thus more firmly held between. the gripper nose and the abutment.

it will be noted that the wire is attached to the head by the. cooperation of one of the grippers with one of the abutments, and in me r tative n'mvement of the head the wire is adapted to be received upon one or more (it the other almtments dependent upon the extent of the rotative movement given to the head in taking up slack in the wire and oi placing the required tension upon said wire, so that ultimately the wire may be Wound or coiled upon the segmental abutments, exteriorly thereto.

is shown in Figure 3, and by dotted lines lip, j, ei:tending beyond the end otthe tail piece, at one side thereof. This 11p is on that "face oi the gripper away from the face of the disk, so that the wire is adapted to lie between the disk and the lip of the gripper, as a res t of which, displacement of the wire away om the member, a, in the initial manipulation of the wire to connect it with the head, is precluded by said lip of the gripper. i

The rotary head of my invention may be use in connection with the various forms of in .n'ients adapted for binding packages. :i s an example oi the implement, there is ."ll vfll in Figures 1 and 9, a drivenshaft, B, upon which the head, A, is secured by rotat on therewith. (in the shaft is a worm ,v'e r, indicated by dotted lines at C in Fig are 9. which gear meshes with aworm, D, on a d" 'en shaft, E, mounted in a suitable titanic, l l, said driven shaft being operated by a lover, which imparts movement to a ratchet, F. as disclosed in a co-opending application tiled by 'l. H. Mcl'laul and myself joint inventors. The binding wire to be pied in the head, A, as heretofore explained, is adapted to have one end of said wire attached to the base, G, of a frame G, within which is positioned a suitable twisting mechanism, also disclosed in said application. said twisting mechanism being operated by a gear, H, for the purpose of twisting together parallel lengths ofsaid Wire,

igure 1, the gripper is provided with a after which the wire is severed at a point close to the twist by a cutting mechanism, 1, the etlect of which is to release that part of the wire gripped to the head, A, whereupon the wire can easily be removed from the head, or said wire will drop out of the head, being tree from strain, so as to release the gripper by relaxation of tension on the tail piece thereof.

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

l. in a device of the class described, a rotatable head provided with an abutment, and a double ended gripper both ends of which are engagable with a wire, said gripper being rotatable with said head and positioned for one of said gripper ends to co-operate with said abutment in retaining the wire in a non-slipping relation to the head.

2. In a device of the class described, a rotatable head and a gripper pivoted thereto for one portion or said gripper to be acted upon by a wire. in a manner tor-the nose of said gripper to be forcibly pressed against said wire with the wire bridging the space between theends of the gripper.

3. In adcvicc or the class described, a r0- tatablehead provided with an abutment, and a movable. gripper carried by said head for cooperation with said alnitment, said gripper beingin the path of a wire for contact therewith, in a manner to shift the position of the gripper and to position said gripper cooperation with said abutment.

l. In a device of the class described, arotatable head provided with an abutment, and a gripperpivoted to the head for the nose of said gripper to cooperate-with said abutment, the other end oi said gripper being positioned for a contact with a wire in a manner tor such contact-to shift the gripper whereby the wire isadapted to beheld between the gripperand' the abutment.

in a device of the class described, the combination with ararrying member having a tired surface, and a work-engaging meniher cooperable with said fixed surface, said vrork-engaging member-being positioned for contact with the workat a plurality of points and being controlled at one of said points by contact with the work so as to be- ;tor the other of said points to be :sedinto contact with the work.

at aw In a device of the class described, a roable head provided with an abutment, and a work-engaging gripper pivoted tosaid head tor movement relatively to said abutment, said work-engaging gripper being po-- sitioned for one taco of the gripper to be in the path ofthe work adapted to be inserted between the gripper and. the abutment.

7. In a device of the class described, a rotatable headp ov ded with a plurality of almtinents, and gripper pivoted to said in the interval separating said abutments.

8. In a device of the class described, a r0- tatable head provided with a plurality of abutnients, and a plurality of grippers, each pivoted to said head for one end of the grip per to cooperate with one abutment and p0- sitioned for the other end of said gripper to play in the interval separating two adjacent abutments.

9. In a device ofthe class described, a rotatable head provided with a plurality of abutinents presenting the segments of a spool, said abutments being relatively spaced, and a plurality of grippers each pivoted to the head for cooperation With one of said abutments.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereunto signed my name at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn. this 4th day of October, 1922.

VINCENT RAGONA.

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