USRE3337E - Improved cotton-bale tie - Google Patents

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UNIIEDLSTATES PATENT! OFFICE.

DANIEL G. LOWBER, OF YORK, N. Y., AND GEORGE L. LAUGHLAND, OF NEW. v. ORLEANS, "LA, ASSIGNEES, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, `OF

WILLIAM TROWBBIDG'E.

IMPROVED COTTON-BALE T IE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 75,319, dated March 10, 1865; Reissue No. 3,337, dated March 23, 1869.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, of the city of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, and State of Louisiana, did invent a certain new and useful improved device for fastening the ends of wire or wire rope together, when the same is used for banding cotton or other bales; and we 'do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the, annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figures 1, 2, and 3 are views of the device as it appears when fastening together the end of a band, and Fig. 4 is a detached view of the hook separated.

The inventionconsists simply in the e1nployment of a section or piece of iron wire preferably somewhat larger than the wire that is to be used as a band in connection with it, (in order to prevent a too abrupt bending of the band in attaching the two together,) that is so bent or formed as to duplicate the hook at one of its ends, and form a loop or eye at the other.

But the invention will be better understood and more readily explained by referring to the drawings., on which- A is a piece of wire, about three and a half or four inches long. B B' are the hooks, and C the loop or eye, to which we have referred. The device may be formed by machines especially constructed for the purpose, which, at a single operation, cut oif the wire the right length and put it into shape, as seen in the drawings.

In applying the invention to actual use, onev end of the band is first connected with the hook by passing' the same through eye Gand then folding it over and twisting it, as is shown in Fig. l. This attachment of the device to one end of the band may be done at the factory or on the plantation. This being done, the band is made to encircle the bale,

and the free end is fastened to the device by passing it through and around the hooks, as shown in the drawings, until sufficiently e11- gaged to not be withdrawn by the strain exerted upon it by the expansion of the material of the bale. This may be accomplished by one or two twists of the wire after passing it through the hook; but if the tension be great, a repetition of the coils or turns of the free end may be necessary, as shown in the drawings.

When bales are made up of irregular sizes, it is preferable to leave the free end unbent until the band has been placed around the hoop; but for many purposes, where bales are made of a uniform weight and size, as those of cotton and hay usually are, it is more convenient and expeditious to have the free end of the wire coiled or twisted in advance,-to be in readiness to engage with the hooks at once when applied to the bale. This may be done at the factory or shop, and save much time in the operation of baling, as well as insure a greater certainty against the band becoming' unfastened through hasty and imperfect twisting in the act of baling. When done in this manner the coiling of the endV of the wire upon the free portion of the band is such as to leave the coil or loop suiciently open to allow it to be readilyslipped over the hook.

If the wire is suiciently light and iexible, the coil may receive a half-twist as the hook is inserted, so that each part of the hook lies in a separate loop, as in Fig. 2, or both parts of the hook may be passed through the loop together.

With this fastening there is no difficulty in taking the band oli' the bale without cutting it whenever the bale is to be broken up. This peculiarity constitutes one of Vthe points of greatest comparative merit in the invention, for it secures the band for repeated use.

The device 1nar be made as cheaply as any tiall'lyr as herein described, for the purpose set in existence, and there is none other that is forth. v

simpler andeasier of adjustment to practical D. C. LOW'BER.

use. GEO. L. LAUGHLAND.

What is claimed as the invention of the said Witnesses for D. G. Lovvber:

WM. TROWBRIDGE is the device herein de- J. vFRAsER,

scribed, to wit: Y K. JONES. f

A section or piece of Wire so'formed as Witnesses for G. L. Laughland z' to be provided with the loop or eye C, with MICHAEL L. LUTHER, the two ends bent into hook form7 snbstan- LAURENCE' MCCORMACK.

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