US77424A

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Publication number: US77424A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1868-04-28
Anticipated expiration: 1885-04-28

Description

.stem are secured together.

In said view, a is the tag-stem, b the anchor, and c the wire which passes through holes in @and b, to secure witch tetes stw't frs.,

WILLIAM N. WEEDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.-

Leam Patent No. 77,424, nieuwe 28,1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN '-IAG--EASTENINGS.k

To ALL WHeM IT MAYA coNcEnN;

Be it known that I, WILLIAMn: WEEDEN, oi Besten, in the county -of Su'olk,and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Tags for Marking Cotton-Baltes, AZito.; and do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompanyand form part of this specification, is a description of my invention sufiicient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it.

This invention is au improvement upon the invention of E. A. Locke, patented May 24, 1864, under the number 42,860, relating to tags for cottonfbales, in the construction of the hook or anchor, and in the method of its application to the stem of the tag. l A

In'said patent the anchor was made of a piece of flattened and slightly-bent wire, and was attached to the.

stem of the tag by rivets or a wire passing through holes made in the tag-stem and in the anchor, which holes weakened both parts.

My imp roY-ement consists in lforming the anchor out of a. sheet-metal blank, which is bent and curved so as to secure the desired form and stiffness, andl i s made toencompass and hold the end of thejstem of the tag by flanges, which are bent over and upon the stem, the parts being secured from slipping or moving, by being indented together. y.

Figure 1, of the drawing,represents in section the manner in which, in said patent, the anchor and the tag-A them together.

Figure 2 shows the form of the punched bla-nk of sheet metal, which, by bending and swaging in dies, is made to assume the formseen in front and side views in Figures 3. and 4.

The wide parts of the blank, marked d d, are the ilanges, which are folded upon the tag-stem aas seen in Figure 5, which is a front viewof a tag, with' my improved anchory secured thereunto.

Figure 6 showing the same in side view. v y

-One end ofthe blank, e, is turned or bent to an angle with the body, as seen clearly in figs. 4 and 6, this bent end being thenpartwhich couples with the piercing-instrument, by which the anchor and its annexed tag are inserted in a bale of brous material, while the other end, f, is bent and swaged into4 an acute-angled trough, and forms the barb which catches in the fibres of any baled material, and resists pull upon the tag 'exerted :to extract it. v

.When the anchor is made into the form seen in figs'. 3 and 4, theend ofthe tag-stem is placed between the iiangesd d, which are then bent and closed down upon ,said stem, and are subjected to indentation, by which the two parts, the anchor andthe stem, are so united that one or the other will break before any slip can take place between them.

The bent angular form given to the end,lf, makes it very rigid, and prevents it from yielding or bending when the tag is pulled upon.

` I claim the improved vanchor, as made with the hook e, the encompassinganges oZ d, and the angularlyformed barb f.

WILLIAM N. WEEDEN. Witnesses:

J. B. Caesar, FRANCIS GroULn.