US770553A - Package-tie - Google Patents

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No. 770,553. PATEN'I'ED SEPT. 20, 1904. I. E. BOOTH.

PACKAGE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21, 1904 NO MODEL M 2 2%, j 0o UNITED STATES Patented September 20, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.

PACKAGE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,553, dated September 20, 1904.

Application filed March 21, 1904.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IRVING EBOOTH, acitizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Package-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a package-tie for securely fastening and holding bundles together which shall afford means for readily carrying a bundle and which shall be easy to unfasten.

The improved package-tie is particularly useful for letter-carriers in doing up and carrying bundles of mail-matter, for use in shoe factories in doing up and carrying bundles of shoe-uppers, and it may be used for a great variety of purposes.

The improved tie is strong, durable, and cheap, is readily fastened and unfastened, and enables the bundle to be readily carried withgut possibility of becoming accidentally unone.

The improved package-tie is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved package-tie. Fig. 2 is a face view of the tiehook. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of the tie-hook. Fig. 4 is a face view of the runner. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the runner. Fig. 6 is a side view of the fasteningstaple. Fig. 7 is a top'view of the fasteningstaple. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section through the hook, showing the band-of webbing attached thereto. Fig. 9 is a cross-section on the line indicated by the line 9 9 in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a section through the runner, showing the band in place. Fig. 11 is a longitudinal section through the adjacent portions of the band and through the hook and runner, showing the hook and runner in their interlocking position which they occupy when the tie is in use.

The tie comprises a band A, a hook B, a runner O, and a staple D. The band A is the part which encircles the bundle to be secured, and it may be of any desired length, depending upon the purpose to which it is to be put. It should be long enough to go around the bundle and leave suflicient surplus to afford efiicient Serial Nol99,184=. (N0 model.)

means for carrying the encircled bundle. The indefinite length of this encircling band is indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, where its end is shown as broken ofi. This encircling band is preferably composed of textile inelastic webbing of convenient width to give the necessary strength; but various other materials are permissible, flexibility, extension, and strength being the important attributes. The hook B is shown separately in Figs. 2 and 3 and is adapted to be secured to one end of the band. This hook is preferably stamped out of sheetsteel and bent to the required shape. The hook B comprises a fastening-plate a; and an overhanging bill 6. The fastening-plate a has two slots 0 and d therein, which are of sufficient length to receive the width of the band A and of suflicient width to receive the thickness of the band. The end of the band A is secured to the hook in the manner clearly shown in Figs. 8 and 9 of the drawings. The end of the band is first passed through the slot 0, thence over the bridge 6 between the two slots, thence back through the slot (Z. The free end of the band is then doubled over, as shown in Fig. 8, and the three layers of the band are secured together by the metal staple D. As shown in Figs. 6 and 7, this staple comprises a body f and two projecting prongs g g. The prongs g g are passed through the three layers of the band, as clearly shown in Fig. 9, and the ends of the prongs g g are then clenched Over, as shown in Fig. 9, thus firmly and securely holding the end of the band in place. This furnishes a strong and efficient means of fastening the end of the band to the hook, and the strain (when the tie is in use) comes upon the bridge 6, which is integral With the body of the hook. The band A is also united to the runner'O. This runner O is preferably made of sheet-steel cut and bent to the proper shape. This runner, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, comprises an arched plate having two slots it and d, an intermediate bridge 7' between the two slots, a catch is, and a clamping-bar or clamp Z, the bridge, catch, and clamp being all integral parts of the runner. The bridge 1' does not lie in the same plane as the catch is and the clamp Z, as clearly shown in Fig. 5. The band is united to the runner by being passed first beneath the catch 70, the adjacent slot 71,, thence over the bridge thence through the slot i, and thence beneath the clamp Z, the catch being toward the hook and the clamp Zbeing toward the free end of the band. When the tie is not in use, the runner can be freely slid along the band.

In order to use the package-tie, its body is passed around the bundle or package to be secured and the bill 7) of the hook is passed through the slot h of the runner, so that the catch it of the runner is held in the throat of the hook, as clearly shown in Fig. 11. The free end m of the band is then pulled until all of the slack in the band is taken up and until the bundle is gripped with the desired degree of tightness. The strain which the encircled bundle or package then exerts cannot possibly loosen the tie, because the greater the strain the more firmly the tie is held. This is rendered evident by an inspection of Fig. 11, in which the arrows n and 0 indicate the direction of the stresses brought to bear upon the band by the expansive action of the bundle or package. As is here evident, the body portion 19 of the band being strained in the direction of the arrow' 12 involves an abrupt bend of the strap around the central bridge 3' of the runner and also strains the upper surface of said body portion 9 against the overlying end m of the band, which strain is resisted by the clamp Z of the runner. The harder the pull the more firmly are the two portionsp and m of the band clamped together. It is further to be noted that the end of the band passes in a devious path over the bridge j to the clamp Z, due to the bridge not being in the same plane as the catch and clamp are, thus tending to the security of the fastening;

It is obvious that when the end m of the band is seized to carry the bundle or package, thus tending to elevate the clamp Z away from the body 6 of the hand, there can be no loosening of'the fastening, because under these circumstances the weight of the bundle is brought also into play, and this tends to tighten and not loosen the encircling band. At the same time the band is very readily unloosened, in order to remove it from the bundle, which is of especial importance with letter-carriers, who wish to readily withdraw a piece of mail-matter from the bundle. When the runner is tilted up by rocking the catch 11 within the throat of the hook, the clamp Z loses its clamping office, and the bight q of the band around the bridge 7' becomes less acute, and then the band. may be readily unloosened by pulling on the body 29 of the band. A slight sliding of the band within the runner suffices, since it is only necessary to get enough slack in the band to enable the bill of the hook to be removed from the slot 2' of the runner, so as to be disengaged from the catch Z.

The improved package-tie is strong, dura thencethrou gh I ble, efficient, easily operated, economical in manufacture, and impossible to get out of order. The manner of its use is so simple as to entail no study or loss of time.

1 claim as my invention 1. A package-tie having, in combination, a hook, a runner, a staple and a band; the hook being composed of sheet metal having aplate provided with two slots, an intermediate bridge and an overhanging bill; the runner being an arched plate of sheet-steel having an intermediate bridge, two slots, a catch and a clamp, the bridge not being in the same plane as the clamp and the catch; the band being passed through the two slots of the runner above the bridge and below the catch and the clamp and thence extending from the catch to the slot of the hook which is nearest the bill, through said slot, over the bridge of the hook, thence back through the other slot Where its end is doubled over; and the doubled-over end of the band being secured to the body of the band by means of the staple.

2. A package-tie having, in combination, a hook, a runner and a band; the hook being composed of sheet-steel having a plate provided with two slots, an intermediate bridge and an overhanging bill; the runner being an arched plate of sheet-steel having an intermediate bridge, two slots, a catch and a clamp, the bridge not being in the same plane as the clamp and the catch; and the band being passed through the two slots of the runner above the bridge and below the catch and the clamp and thence extending from the catch to the slot of the hook which is nearest the bill,

through said slot, over the bridge of the hook, thence back through the other slot where its end is secured to the body of the band.

3. A package-tie having, in combination, a hook, a runner and a band; the hook having a plate provided with two slots, an intermediate bridge and an overhanging bill; the runner having an intermediate bridge, two slots, a catch and a clamp, the bridge not being in same plane as the clamp and the catch; and the band being passed through the two slots of the runner above the bridge and below the catch and the clamp and thence extending from the catch to the slot of the hook which is nearest the bill, through said slot, over the bridge of the hook, thence back through the other slot where its end is secured to the body of the band.

- 4. A package-tie having, in combination, a hook, a runner and a band; the hook having a plate and an overhanging bill; the runner having an intermediate bridge, two slots, a catch and a clamp, the bridge not being in the same plane as the clamp and the catch, and

the catch being adapted to be engaged by the to the runner passing first below its catch, through its two slots, over its bridge and then and then out below its clamp, the end of the band beyond the clamp being free and serving as a handle for the tie.

6. A package-tie having, in combination, a hook, a runner, a staple and a band; the hook having a plate provided with two slots, an intermediate bridge and bill; the band being passed through the runner and thence extending to the slot of the book which is nearest the bill, through said slot, over the bridge of the hook, thence back through the other slot where its end is doubled over; and the doubled-over end of the band being secured to the body of the band by means of the staple. In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

IRVING E. BOOTH. Witnesses LOUIS W. G. FLYNT, Q. W. BOOTH.

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