US500029A - Hose-strap fastener - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

B. W. McKENZIE. HOSE STRAP FASTENEE.

'No. 500,029. Patented June 20, 1893.

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BERNARD WRIGHT MCKENZIE, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.

HOSE-STRAP FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,029, dated June 20, I893.

Application filed September 13, 1892. Serial No. 45,803. (No model.)

. T on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BERNARD WRIGHT Mo- KENZIE, of San Diego, in the county of San Diego and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hose-Strap Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a double leverlike tool of novel construction, for applying and securing wire straps or ties to garden and other hose for uniting the latter to their couplings, substantially as hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claims. 7

One object of this hose-strap fastener over, or as compared with others, is to' save wire and the brazing of the ends of the Wire fastener together, and the consequent liability of the strap to break at the points where itis brazed together, and to provide a wire fastener which shall be readily adaptable to hose of different thickness or diameter.

Referenceis to be had to the accompanying drawings forming apart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side view of the tool as applied to the wire fastener at one stage of securing the hose on a coupling. Fig. 2 is a plan view of said 1001. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, in part, of the same at another stage of securing the hose on the coupling. Fig. 4 is a front end view of the tool. Figs. 5, 6 and 7, are longitudinal views of the coupling and hose in part, with the wire fastening in place, preparatory to the application of the tool and during the progress of the work by the application of the tool; and Fig. Sis a longitudinal View of the wire fastening bent into shape before using the tool and securing it by means of the tool on the hose and its coupling.

The tool is of a pliers-like description composed of twolevers A and B pivoted together as at b to form handles a a and jaws cc, but said levers are not made to cross each other at their joint or pivot as pliers are. Springs d d are applied to hold the handles a a apart and so that when closing the handles, the jaws c 0 open, and vice versa. The one jaw c is made with a longitudinal passage 6, on its inner side open above terminating in 'a cavity f running across said jaw, and has two longiho se upon the coupling.

tudinal apertures g g adapted to receive the ends of the wire forming the fastener and eX- tended through the jaws 0 into the cavity f on either or both sides of the passage e. The

other or upper jaw c is made straight or approximately so on its inner face and so that when closed it enters down within the passage 6, and is made with a lip h on the upper side of its front end. Notches i t" are formed in either joint portion of the levers A and B on opposite sides of the pivot b for cutting the wire, as in the case of shears, by shutting to the handles a a, after said wire has been bent by the tool to fasten the hose on the coupling. This feature is not claimed as a novelty in itself, but is simply added for convenience, as

a wire cutter of some kind is necessary each time the tool is used, but any other cutting means might be employed.

* In the drawings, 0 represents the coupling and D one end of the hose secured, or to be secured thereon,and E is the wire,preferably brass wire, fastener or strap for binding the This wire strap is made from a piece of wire cut the required length and doubled over into U-shape as shown in Fig. 8. The strap is then bent with the hands around the hose D, outside of the coupling E and its loose ends passed through the loop or looped end of the strap. My hose strap fastening tool is then applied and the free ends of the strap inserted into and through the small apertures g g in the lip or front end jaw portion 0 of the lever A of the tool, as far as possible, as shown in Fig. 1. The handles a a, are then compressed or closed, the apertures g g gripping firmly the free ends of the wire strap, and as the two jaws c 0' open by the closing of the handles a a,- the jaw 0' takes hold of the looped end of the strap and by apwire strap is drawn perfectly tight around the hose, as shown in Fig. 3. Then, by a movement of the tool around the hose, the free ends of the wire are bent or inclined over as represented in Fig. 6, so as to hold the wire from slipping, after which the tool is released from the strap, the surplus wire out off by inserting the exposed end portions of the wire in the notches 2' t" of the tool and working the latter as a shears, or the surplus wire maybe otherwise cutoff, and then the remaining end portions bent down by hand or hammer on on hose to secure the latter to their couplings,

comprising two pivoted jaws, one jaw being provided with a lip on the upper side of its front end, and the other with a longitudinal passage on its inner side adapted to receive the upper jaw and with longitudinal apertures to receive thefree ends of the wire forming the fastener, substantially as described.

2. The herein described tool, consisting of the levers A B pivoted together and provided with the jaws c c, the jaw 0' being provided with the lip h, and the jaw c with the transverse cavity the longitudinal passage e extending to the said cavity and adapted to receive the jaw c and the longitudinal apertures g adapted to receive the free ends of the wire tie,;as specified.

BERNARD WRIGHT M GKENZIE.

Witnesses:

A. A. SPARKS, A. L. Ross.

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