US59152A - Improvement in cotton-bale ties - Google Patents

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFT-Tou.

JAMES J. MGOOMB, OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,152, dated October 23, 1866.

Toall whom lt may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES JENNINGS Mo- OOMB, at present residing at Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, in that-part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, a citizen of the United States of America, have invented certain new and useful improvements in connecting the ends of flat metal bands or straps used in the baling of cotton and other materials; anddo hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and gures of reference marked thereon.

The nature of this my said invention consists in certain improvements in connecting the ends of metal bands surrounding cotton and other bales by a peculiar mode ot folding the ends of the said metal bands, to prevent the same drawing, rendering, or slipping from the connecting tie or buckle, and to insure strength in the bands at their junction with the nipping-ties, by which means I am enabled to use a band of less gage than now generally practicable.

Now, it has been found in practice in some cases, where great pressure has been used to condense the material to be packed, that withouty care the band so connected may render or he drawn through the strap or buckle piece for some little distance on the bale being released from pressure, and the bands are exceedingly apt to break or cut at their junction with the buckle or tie piece.

The object of this my improvement is to prevent the rendering or drawing of the straps when applied to bales packed under pressure, or to such portion of the bales as would apply extra pressure thereto.

To accomplish these improvements I turn or double one or both ends l of the irou or other metal band b or bale-strap to the inner side, so that there will be a fold or doubling of the iron or other metal strap, which pre vents the drawing of the .straps out of the buckles or tie-pieces e, and insures strength at the nipping point.

The straps may be folded once or twice, if desired, thus insuring great strength to the bands at the nippingpoints, where they are most likely to give whenl single, and which is simply done by doubling the ends ot' the balestrap sufficiently backward .to enable the strap to be turned over in double, so that at the throat of the strap, resting on the nip of the buckle-piece, the band will be twofold, thus avoiding any chance of the strap being cut off or broken by thenipping power of the sides of the buckle or tie piece; butshould the metal be of sufficient good quality to stand the required stress at the nipping-point, only a small portion of the end of theband may be turned in to prevent the drawing or rendering thereof, as will be readily seen ou reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of so much of a band aud atie or buckle piece, known as the arrow-tie, as is necessary to show the mode of doubling the ends of the band when the metal is of suiiicient good quality and strength to obviate the necessity of more than the thickness of the band in the throat of the tie. Fig. 2 is a like sectional elevation, showing the inode of bending the baud,

which may be of a smaller gage, and is seen g doubled in the throat of the tie-piece, thus not only preventing the rendering of the band, but also increasing the strength thereot` at the nipping-points iu the throat ot' the buckle or tie piece.

Having now fully described and aseer` tained the nature of this my said invention,

'and how I believe the same may be best carried into practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the relative proportions or dimensions of the several parts of the baud; but

What 1 claim as new and my invention is- Ihe peculiar manner of folding the metal bauds, as hereinbefore described, and illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2, substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described aud set forth.

In witness whereof I, the said JAMES JEN- NINGS MGOOMB, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 6th day of April, A. D. 1866.

JAMES, J. MeooMB. [L s] Witnesses:

WILLIAM WALKER,

0f 44 Castle Street, Liverpool. J. H. REDMOND,

Secretary to the abone-named William Walker.

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