US1858138A - Parcel tie - Google Patents

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May H), 1932. Q w CEARLEY 1,858,138

PARCEL TIE Filed Feb. 26, 1931 Quinn Cot Patented May 10, 1932 UNITED STATES COLUMBUS W. CEABLEY, OF BEDFOR-D, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OE' TWO-'EEIFTI I$ TO- SAINT RUTHERFORD, oEBEDlFoRD lNDIAlN-Ax PARCEL .TIE.

Application filed February 26, 1931; serial No. 518,570;

This invention relates to a parcel tie device which will overcome the necessity of knotting or tying cord or the equivalent, en-

able reuse of the cord and also accomplish more expeditious tying of packages and bundles.

It is particularly aimed to provide a novel construction which may be manufactured from a single blank of sheet metal.

Various additional objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawings illustrating an operative embodiment.

In said drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a package showing the cord held in place by the invention,

Figure 2 is a plan view of the tie member,

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 33 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 2,

Figure 5 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 2,

Figure 6 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 6-6 of Figure 2, and

Figure 7 is a plan view of the blank from which the tie is made.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the tie is made from a single blank of metal 10 which is stamped into the form shown in Figure 7. This blank has a lower plate 11 and an upper plate 12, the latter being folded over the former along the line 13 and being spaced slightly from the latter throughout,

except for portions 14 and 15, on the plates 11 and 12, respectively, which are arranged in intimate contact with each other as particularly shown in Figure 4:, and held against separation through the interlocking of a tongue 16, stamped from one of such parts and passed through an opening 17 in the other of such parts and clinched in place.

About the portions 14 and 15, ribs 18 are stamped in the plates 11 and 12, and those of the upper plate alternate with those of the lower plate as shown in Figures 3 and 5. At one end of the plate 11 a hook or lug 19 is provided while adjacent the opposite end, hooks or lugs 20 are provided. Such hooks or lugs 19 and 20 are stamped from the metal of the plate 11. Directly over the hooks or lugs 20, the plate 12 preferably has offset portions as at 21.

Hooks 19 and 20 are as stated stamped from the metal of the plate, hook 19 being deflected slightly upwardly as shown in Figure 3, while hooks 20 are, as also shown in Figure 3, formed by a sharp upward bend as at 20 and the bill of the hook canted sidecel or package conventionally shown at 23.

In using the device, one end of the cord 22 is looped about the plate 11 and secured under the hook 19 as shown in Figure 1. The cord is then arranged longitudinally substantially about the package 23 and en- 705 gaged between the plates 11 and 12, being deflected by the part 15, then passed laterally around the package and the terminal of the cord entered between the plates and between and gripped by the ribs 18. Hooks 20 serve as emergency clasps to prevent release or disengagement of the end of cord 22 by rough handling of the parcel or package.

To release the tie the loose end of cord 22 must be first pulled taut and then pulled around clockwise. Unless held taut during such movement release of the cord cannot be effected as the purpose of said hooks 20 is to catch and hold the loose end of the cord to prevent release if not held taut.

Various changes may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. A tie device of the class described made from a single blank comprising a plate havmg a hook for fastening a terminal of a cord thereto, a portion of said blank being folded over another portion and partly in contact therewith, said folded portions being adapted for passage of the cord between them and around the part thereof in contact, a tongue on one of the portions and secured through the otherportion, and integral ribs on said portions adapted for engagement by the other terminal of a cord.

2. A tie device having overlying connected plates, means on one of the plates whereby a cord may be terminally anchored thereto, means on the plates whereby the free end of the cord may be secured between the plates, a hook on one end of said plates having its bill canted sidewise to prevent disengagement of the cord end from between the plates, and an offset portion on the other plate to receive said hook.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

COLUMBUS W. CEARLEY.

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