US695213A - Bale-tie. - Google Patents

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Patented Mar. II, I902. W. A KILMEB.

BALE TIE (Application filed Aug. 21, 1901.)

( No Model.)

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WILLIAM A. KILMER, OF BANGOR, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO WALTER A.

SCOTT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,213, dated March 11, 1902.

Application filed August 21, 1901- Serial No. 72,846. (No model.)

To aZZ whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. KILMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bangor, in the county of Van Buren and State of.

Michigan, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Bale-Ties andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in bale-ties. I

It consists in the construction hereinafter shown and described.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 represents a top View of a bale-tie containing the present invention. Fig. 2 represents a plan view in detail of the catching plate or loop. Figs. 3 and 4 represent end views of this catching plate or loop.

In these drawings the letter A represents a bale-tie consisting of the usual wire a, having the loose or free end a and its other end a secured to the catching-plate B. This catching-plate B is made as clearly shown in Fig. 2. It is made with a large body I), within which are an enlarged opening I) and an extension b which is integral with the body b,

the extension I) having at its extremity a head 19 At the side of the opening I) toward the extension P the opening'?) is reduced so as to be pointed, forming a pinching angle 6 At its opposite end the plate B has a reduced recess b opening out into the enlarged opening I). Also at this end the plate B is provided on each side with grooves 12 which gradually round at 12 into the recess 11 This plate B is made of such a size that the materialabout the opening in this plate and the extensions of such plate are much larger, in size than the wire Ct, the difference in size being very appreciable. The opening I) is sufficiently large for the ready admission of the ends of the wire a. The recess 6 and groove b are of a size to be snugly fitted to the Wire a and the pinching angle 12 being smaller than the size of the wire a. The end a of the wire A is slipped through the enlarged opening I), is turned down into the recess 5 and as it is twisted about itself, as indicated in Fig. 1, thesides of the wire are pulled down into and snugly fit in the grooves b. By this construction it will be seen that the catching-plate B is held in alinement with the end a of the wire A and will not drop down. Hence the catching-plate B, though separate from, so as to be of a larger size than. the bale-tie wire A, yet it is just as much in alinement with the wire of the bale-tie as though made in one piece.

This device relates more to that class of ties known as adjustable ties, or where the tie can be adjusted to the size of the bale without leaving any slack.

I am aware that it is old to grip the free end of the wire under itself in order to afiord sufficient friction to seat the wire in the pinching-angle. This process is quite slow and at the same time leaves unnecessary slack, so that when the bale is released from pressure it loses considerable of its compactness. Hence not as much material can be loaded in a given space as could be done otherwise. In my device the free end of the wire is inserted through the opening I) and adjusted to the size of the bale and is then merely tucked under the extension-arm b which is done 'much more readilyand without any slack, the extension afiording greater resistance, and thus always insures the wire seating itself in the pinchingangle b. The head b of the extension 11 prevents the end a from slipping off.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The wire, a, in combination with the catching-plate, B, having the enlarged opening, b, and the integral extension, 17 with the head, 5

2. The bale-tie shown and described, consisting of the plate, B, having the opening, I), terminating at one end in a pinching angle, b and having the recess, b and grooves, 11, at its opposite end, and having the integral extension, 11 having the head b and a bale-wire, a, having one end secured to said plate by being passed through said eye and seated in the recess, b and grooves,

b andeoiled back upon itself, and having In testimony Whereof I affix my 'signature its free end passed through said eye and unin presence of two witnesses. der said extension and held seated in said pinching angle, such free end being WILLIAM KILMER' 5 Wrapped around said extension and binding Witnesses:

against the head, 5 as and for the purpose E. E. KILMER, stated. I H. 0. Ross.

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