US18419A - String- fastening for sacks - Google Patents

Description

J. A. WATROUS;

Bag Fastener.

Patented Oct. 13, 1857' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. WATROUS, OF GREEN SPRING, OHIO.

STRING FASTENING FOB SACKS, 86c.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

0 all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, JAMES A. 'Wa'rnoos, of Green Spring, in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Machine for Fastening the Mouths of Bags; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view with one side plate D, Fig. 5, removed; D is a side plate; A is a fixed jaw; B is a movable jaw 5 C is a lever.

This machine consists of two parallel plates, which support the inside work, and are made of any shape, and of any metal or other substantial material; each having alip projecting from one edge of the plate turned at right angles with it, through which made a hole for fastening the machine to the bag. There are, in each plate, three holes to receive the rivets projecting from the fixed jaw, Fig. 2, and by which it is made fast to the same; there is also in each plate a slot to receive the projecting guard of the movable jaw, Fig. 3, and lever, Fig.4.

Fig. 5 represents a side plate with the holes (3, 0, c, for the rivets of the fixed jaw, Fig. 2, 7), 7), &c., and the slot (Z.

Fig. 2 represents the fixed jaw, consisting of the curved plate T, T, and the leg A. There are rising from the cover or upper surface of the plate, two oval, transverse ridges or compresses, leaving a depression or cavity between them into which the string, strap or cord is forced by the compress of the movable jaw, as it passes between them. These compresses project beyond the edge of the plate T, T, to enter the holes of the side plates 0, c, c, Fig. 5. These rivets are shown at Fig. 9, b, Z), I), b. The movable jaw is represented by Fig. 3, consisting of the curved plate B and the compress 0, 0. 011 the lower surface of the plate B, there is a compress rising at the 18,419, dated October 18, 1857.

middle and lying transversely across it, falling from the surface a proper distance to fit between the compresses of the fixed jaw, thus forming a firm and substantial compression of the string, cord or strap, which is to pass around the mouth of the bag and pass double through machine between the fixed and movable jaws.

Fig. i represents the lever with its own fulcrum s, 8, playing in the slot of the side plates, Fig. 5, (Z; the scroll, r, pressing upon the upper surface of the movable jaw, which is forced down upon the cord when the scroll falls beyond the fulcrum, and thereby preventing the lever from falling back and becoming loose; but keeping up a constant and unyielding crimp of the cord, strap or string.

Fig. (3 represents the manner of attachment to a bag which has been drawn up tight and fastened by the machine. E is the bag; 0 is the bag fastener or machine; 1, g), 7), is a leather strap closing the end or mouth of the bag; H is a piece of firm leather, through which holes are made to keep the cord, strap or string from running into the machine in a twisted or knotty form. g, g, are loops of leather or other material made fast to the bag inclosing the cord. strap or string encompassing the mouth of the bag, and keeping it from slipping from its proper place.

hat. I claimas my invention and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent is- The manner of crimping or fastening the string or cord by means of the fixed and movable jaws with their elevated coinpresses; the movable jaw rising and falling in the slots in obedience to the lever, thereby fastening the string firmly at any point desired without chafing or cutting the same when applied to the fastening of bags.

JAMES A. \VATROUS.

Attest N. GoETsoHnUs, LLOYD FREEZE.

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