US267853A - Bale-tie - Google Patents

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(N0 Model.)

0. P. FANNIN. BALE TIE.

No. 267,853. Patented Nov. 21, 1882.

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UNI ED STATES OLIVER I. FANNIN, OF WEST WYNNTON, FLOR-IDA.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,853, dated November 21, 1882.

Application filed August 26, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER P. FANNIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Wynnton, in the county of Calhoun and State of Florida, have invented a new and useful gale-Tie, of which the following is a specifica- My invention relates to improvements in the means by which cotton-bale bands are tight- I0 ened and secured in place; and the objects of my improvement are, first, to take up the slack in the bale-bands; second, to so construct the machine as that the buckle shall be automatically adjustable; third, to secure rapidity and ease in the manipulation of the machine;

and, fourth, to construct it in the simplest and most economical manner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improvement, with the tightener and buckle in position for operation. Fig. 2 represents a like View, showing the operation completed. Fig. 3 is an end view, showing slot'D. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the buckle.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings.

The band-tightener or slack-taker consists of a plate,A, having rounded ends a, and is provided with a longitudinalslot, B, whichextends to within a shortdistance of eitherend of the plate. The sides of the slot are parallel and have grooves 0 throughout their length. (Jorrespondingin width with these grooves (l is a second slot, D, through one end of the plate 3 5 A. A rack, E, slides in the grooves G, and is furnished upon one side with teeth, which gear with like teeth upon a semicircular plate, F, pivoted in an extension, G, of plate A, and Working through a slot, H, formed in the edge of said plate and extension. The plate F is provided with a lever-handle, I, and through said handle and plate longitudinal motion is imparted to rack E. Near the solid end of the plate A a slotted stud, K, is secured, and beyond said stud there isa post, L. The slot in the aforesaid stud is in line with the movement of the rack E, and is continued through the plate A at an angle of forty degrees to form a guide, M, for the spur of the buckle, for pur- 50 poses'hereinafter described. Upon the inner extremity of the rack E is a second stud, N, slotted throughout its length inthe same planes as stud K. Back of stud N a sunken shoulder, n, is formed in the rack E. 1 The buckle 0 consists of a Z-shaped piece of metal, whoselowerend is connected by an oblique bar, 0, with the middle of the stem, thus forming a triangular slot, '0, in its lower half, and causing the back 0 0 of the buckle to be angled at or near its middle point, and whose upper extremity is provided with a spur, o, to prevent the bale-bandQ from slipping off the buckle. P is a small slot, forminga continuation of one of the angles of the triangular slot 0, and is intended to hold the band in position while the fastener is in course of operation. The operation of the machine is as follows, to wit: One end of the bale-band is passed through the triangular slot of of the buckle, bent backward, and riveted in place. The band is then passed around the bale and its free extremity islooped about the stud K and passed over the post L. The buckle is then placed in the slotted stud N, so that while one part of its angled back rests upon the face of the rack E and against the shoulder '11. the other part extends through the slot B. Upon raising the lever I the bale-band is gradually tightened and the spurred end of the buckle finally enters the guide M, is forced upward by the obliquity of said guide into the slot of the stud K, engages with theloop of the band and forces'the same over and off said stud, thereby buckling the band and completing the operation. In the same manner the remaining bands are fastened upon the halo.

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

1. The Z-shaped buckle 0, provided with slots 0' 1 spur 0 and angled back 0 0 substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination, with the rack .E, provided with shoulder at and slotted stud N, of the buckle 0, having angled back 0 0 substantially as described, whereby said buckle is adapted to be held in position while the band is being-tightened, asset forth.

3. The combination of the slotted plate A, provided with slotted stud K, post- L, and 100 guide M, with the rack E, provided with slotscribed, whereby the buckle is held in place, ted stud N and shoulder n, the semicircular guided and connected with the end of the plate F, and lever I, substantially as and. for bale-band, as and for the purposes described. the purposes described. OLIVER P. FANNIN.

5 4. The combination, with the band-tight- Witnesses:

ener A E F I and buckle 0, of the slotted L. BAKER, studs N K and guide M, substantially as de- J. H. MUSE.

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