US58698A - Improvement in cotton-ties - Google Patents

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UNITED' S'rarns PATENTE CHARLES W. WTAILEY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-TIES.

.Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,698, dated October 9, 1866.

To all whom/it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES W. WAILEY, ot' the city ot' N ew Orleans, parish of Orleans, and State ol' Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Cotton-Tie; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Fi gureaisaperspective view ot' my tie disconnected from a hoop; Fig. 3, a view of my tie representing, in perspective, its position. when receiving the unattached end of a hoop. Fig. 2, a top view of my tie with hoop attached, and Fig. l a perspective side view of my tie with hoop attached.

My invention consists of a metallic tie or buckle, A, having two projecting circular or curved lips, a b, that are cut or thrown out of the plane ot its surface sufficiently to admit of the easy. insertion of the hoop into the slots or apertures produced by the` cutting, and in such manner that there are no angles between the points of the projecting lips to abrade or cut the hoop in the practical use of the appliance, experience having demonstrated that whenever there are angles, however obtuse, on either surface of the tie the hoop is injured and weakened, if it be not absolutely out.

No part of the metallic plate being' cut away in forming the projecting lips a b, it is obvious that if the same were replaced or forced back into their original position they would exactly ll the space they originally occupied 5 and it' a piece of hoop-iron of the kind ordinarily used in banding cotton were 'introduced into the opening before the 'projecting lips were forced back they (the lips) would impin ge upon it upon the principle ot' the wedge, and prevent it from slipping. The projecting lips c I) in being thrown out of the plane of the side of the tie turn, in eect, as upon a hinge at c. (Vide Figs. l, 2, 3, 4.) The points of the projecting lips afb pass, in moving, through the arc of a very small circle, and hence a line drawn perpendicularly through the tie and through the apertures therein, and touching the edge of the apertures from which the projecting lips were separated, would not be much more distant from the point of the projecting lips than the thickness of ordinary angle, with respectto the line ot' the direction of a hoop around a bale of cotton. It the other end ot' the hoop be bent over the end of the other projecting lip, another right angle is formed, as at d', Fig. l, which is opposite to the tlrst, and hence it follows that it a lon gitudinal tension be put upon the hoop the resultant of the resisting forces that is develA oped by the two opposing right angles would be divided, and, acting in opposite directions, would hohl or prevent the hoop from slipping.

The method in which my tie is used in conA nection with hoop-iron is shown in Figs. l and 3. One end of the hoop is permanently fastened to the tie, as shown at e, Figs. 1 and 3. In this manner the end is passed through one of the apertures and bent over thc end of the projecting lip. The whole is hammered down, and thus the lip is closed or impinges tightly upon the hoop, and the angle in that end of the hoop is established.

In putting a hoop upon a bale of cotton, that side of the tie from which the lips project is put next the bale, and the tie being bent with the thumb ot' the left hand into position as to the line of the direction of the hoop that is shown at Fig. 3, the opposite end ofthe hoop is drawn through the aperture at the other end of the tie, as seen at f, Fig. 3, until all the slack is taken up. This done and the pressure taken off the bale, it expands, draws the tie into a line coincident with the axis of the line of the hoop, and forces the slack or long end of the hoop against and around the point of the other end, as seen in Fig. l, and thus eectually secures the hoop from slipping.

The advantages of my invention may be thus stated Itis simple, cheap, and may be readily manufactured. It is quickly and easily adjusted to a bale of cotton. Ithas in itself as much strength as there is in hoop-iron, and hence, unlike a Fassman tie, will hold as great a strain as will the hoop itselt. It can be used over and over again, for it can be taken oft' one bale and applied to another without being in jured or broken. It does not require a perforation of the hoop, and the consequent weak= Orgien.

fore I do not claim ties having vertical or angular projections; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a new article of manufacture, is-

The metallic tie or buckle A7 when constructed as described, for the purpose setforth.

CHARLES W. WAILEY.

Witnesses p (J1-ms. STmNGER, E. BAU.

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