IMPROVEMENTS IN TIES FOR SECURING BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TIES FOR SECURING BALES OF COTTON
AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE." -A communication from abroad by
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William A. Jordan, of Now Orleans, Louisiana, United States of
America.
Sealed the 16th June 1874, and dated the 22nd December 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 22nd December 1873.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do horeby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TIES FOR SECURING
BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE," a communication, to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved device for securing the ends of
metallic bands or hoops on bales of cotton or other merchandize.

page_text: The main object of the said Invention is the construction of a bale tie,
whereby the ends of metallic bands surrounding cotton or other bales
may be securely fastened and held in position without in any manner
depending upon the expansive force of the material contained within
the bale, and all of the slack of the band may be easily taken up in the
operation of tying and securely held, thereby ensuring an equal tension
upon cach and every band surrounding a bale. By the peculiar manner
in which the said fastening is used much time is saved by the avoidance
of all bending of the band, tucking the ends under, and also by avoiding
the great difficulty always experienced in passing the ends of the bale
bands, so that they come in contact with the cotton or the bagging.
The said improvements consist, first, in a rectangular metal plate
provided with two parallel slots through which the extreme ends of the
bands are made to pass; and secondly, in the combination with the
plate and band of a metal sleeve for receiving and holding both ends of 1
the band when the same is secured by the said plate around the balc.
The method of applying the band is as follows:-One end of the same
is first passed through the sleeve, then over the bar, and through the slot
of the aforesaid plate; it is next brought back and again through the
slceve; the extreme end is next bent back on the outside of the slceve to
prevent the release by the said sleeve of either the end of the band or the
tie plate, hence securely fastening the said end as well as the said sleeve
in its proper position. This arrangement will also secure the trans-
portation of bands without loss of ties, from the fact that the tic plate
and sleeve are secured to one end of the band at the factory. After the
band has been placed around the bale the free end thereof is passed
through the slot in the plate, thence through the sleeve and is drawn
tight. After the bales have been pressed and the bands secured upon
the same, the end of the band projecting beyond the sleeve may be
clipped off or bent back.
In compressing the bales for shipment when it is desirable that the
size of the bales shall be permanently reduced as much as possible, the
facility with which the slack of the band is taken up by this method of
fastening prevents the expansion of the bale after the pressure is with-
drawn, and therefore holds it closely to the size to which it is brought
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special
licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert Lake
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TIES FOR SECURING BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE,”
a communication to me from abroad by William A. Jordan, of New
Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and

page_text: by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing, forming a part of this Specification:-
This Invention relates to an improved device for securing the ends of
metallic bands or hoops on bales of cotton or other merchandize.
The main object of the said Invention is the construction of a bale tie,
whereby the ends of metallic bands surrounding cotton or other bales
may be securely fastened and held in position, without in any manner
depending upon the expansion of the material contained within the
bale, and all of the slack of the band may be easily taken up in the
operation of tying and securely held, thereby ensuring an equal tension
upon each and every band surrounding a bale. By the peculiar manner
in which the said fastening is used much time is saved by the avoidance
of all bending of the band, tucking the ends under, and also by avoiding
the great difficulity always experienced in passing the ends of the bale
bands, so that they come in contact with the cotton or the bagging.
The said improvements consist, first, in a rectangular metal plate
provided with two parallel slots through which the extreme ends of the
bands are made to pass; and secondly, in the combination with the
same of a metal sleeve for receiving and holding both ends of the band
when the same is secured by the said plate around the bale.
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2

page_text: The method of applying the band is as follows, that is to say :-One
end of the same is first passed through the sleeve B, then over the bar c,
and through the slot 6 of the plate A; it is next brought back under c
and again passed through the sleeve B; the oxtreme end is next bent
back on the outside of the sleeve B to prevent the release by the said
sleeve of either the end of the band or the tie plate A, hence securely
fastening the said end as well as the said sleeve B in its proper position.
This arrangement will also secure the transportation of bands without loss
of tics from the fact that the tie plate and sleeve are secured to one end of
the band at the factory. After the band has been placed around the bale
the tin plate A is inclined slightly outward in order that the free end d of
the band may be passed from the inner or side nearest the bale through
the slot b¹, and thence through the sleeve B and drawn tight. It will be
seen that the band impinges upon the edges of the sides of the slot b³, in
such a manner that the greater the strain brought to bear upon the same
the more firmly will it be held, and the band being passed through the
sleeve B is held firmly down, so that the impinging force of the angular
edges of the slot 6' causes a friction which it is impossible to overcome
without breakage of the bands. The end of the band after passing
through the sleeve B may be turned back over the sleeve if desired.
After the bales have been pressed and the band secured upon the same
the end of the band projecting beyond the sleeve B may be clipped off
or bent back as above described.
In compressing the bales for shipment, when it is desirable that the
size of the bales shall be permanently reduced as much as possible, the
facility with which the slack of the band is taken up by my method of
fastening prevents the bale from expanding after the pressure is with-
drawn, and therefore holds it closely to the size to which it is brought
by the press, an extra quantity of clippings of ends is also by this means
economized.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I do not claim a tie plate provided with
slots or a sleeve or slide separately, for I am aware that neither alone
is new,
but I claim, a bale tie consisting of a slotted plate A, sleeve B,
and a band or hoop the looped end of which is clinched over the said
sleeve, and the free end passed through the slot 6' from the under side

page_text: and secured to the said sleeve, as herein set forth and for the purpose
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of June in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
Witness,
H. J. NOONE,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
W*. ROB³. LAKE. (L.S.)