US47288A

US47288A - Improvement in hoop-locks for cotton

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Publication number: US47288A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1865-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 1882-04-18

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IMPROVEMENT IN HOOP-L OOKs FOR COTTON-BALES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 47,288, dated AprillS, 186;). f

T0 all whom it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, E. VICTOR FAssMANN, of New Orleans. in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new. and Improved Cotton -Bale Tie or Hoop-Lock; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable Others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a detached side View of my invention; Fig. 2,a section of the same, taken in the line w x, Fig. l; Fig. 3,a side view of the same with the ends of the hoop attached;

Fig. 4 a, section of Fig. 3,taken in the line x w'.

Similar letters `Of reference indicate like parts. i

This invention relates tO a new and improved fastening for securing iron hoops On cotton-bales previous to the removal of the latter from the press, and which fastenings are commonly termed cotton-bale ties77 or hooplocks.7

The Object of the invention is tO obtain a tie or lock for the purpose specified which may be cheaply manufactured, admit of having the ends of the hoops readily applied Or attached to it to secure the hoops On the bales, and which will admit of the hoops being applied to bales varying in size or dimensions.

A represents a plate, which `may be of castiron and of square form. This plate has two slots or Openings, B B, in it rather greater in length than the width of the hoop. These slots or Openings have each a slit, a, at one end, said slits extending Out to the edge of the plateAat Opposite sides thereof, as shown in Figs. l and 3. The plate A is cast with two ridges or projections, b b, at each side and at the inner edge Of each slot Or opening B. The plate A may be about One-eighth (1l-)Of an inch thick, and

the ridges Or projections b b may extend out from the plateabout one-eighth.(-) of an inch;

C C represent the two ends of a hoop, one j end, C, being fitted in one of `the slots B and; 1 j

bent around so as to be?- securely fastenedin it, as shown at c in Fig. 4. The Other.end,i0,` of the hoop is straight, andrwhen `the bale is under compression the straight end is insertf ed in the other slot B and pressed through, so;` that the hoop maybe snugly adjusted to the 1p 3 When the bale is released from 'pressz` f ure, the ridges or projections b b sink into the end C of the hoop and firmly hold the same,

bale.

the elasticity Of the cotton being sufficient to effect this end. The slits a facilitate the` in- .l d

sertion Of the ends C C ofthe hoop inthe plate A; The `ridges or `projections b b are i. cast on both sides of the l.plate A,- so that either side of the same maybe placed against the bale, and therefore obviate much handling j or manipulation which would otherwise `Occur if the ridges were only on one side.` The: ,hoops also ,may be adj usted to bales of differi ent sizes, which isa great advantage, as the bales will always varymaterially in size, and I great trouble and embarrassment are experienced with those ties or `locks whichare used a new and improved cottonbale tie or hoopl loclg, as set forth.

Vitnesses: I

JOSEPH P. vHOENEE, il SPENCER G. HAMILTON.

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