An Improved Binder for Fastening Bundles of Papers or other Parcels.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 7th Sept., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Binder for Fastening Bundles of Papers or other
Parcels.
We, ALLISON BELL LENNOX, of 11 Finsbury Square, in the City of London,
Engineer, and JOHN HUBERT WHARTON, of St. Martins House, Ludgate Hill, in the
City of London, Financial Broker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
Our invention relates to an improved means for binding bundles of papers or other
parcels together in place of india rubber rings, string or tape.
Our invention consists of a strip of thin flexible metal such as thin sheet brass, or
other material, which is capable of being lapped round a bundle of papers or any
parcel, and is so constructed that one end may be made to easily engage and lock
with the other, when the two ends are brought together around the parcel.
To effect this, out of one end of the band we may form a suitable tongue, and
through the other end of the band for some distance we may pierce a number of
holes of suitable shape, so that the aforesaid head of the band will engage and lock
therein when drawn over and allowed to slip back a short distance.
There are many equivalent ways in which the said head and engaging slots or
holes may be formed; for instance we may stamp a tongue in one end of the band,
which is cut round three sides, and allowed to adhere to the band with the fourth,
and in the other end of the band we provide slots of suitable shape into which the
said tongue may engage, and lock when drawn over the said slots and allowed to slip
back a short distance. To ensure easy engagement of the tongue in the slots, we
may corrugate the slotted end of the band so that the slots are presented on the
ridges of the corrugations, causing the tongue to engage therein with certainty and
ease. At the same time the tongue, after it has passed through the slots, will in this
case lie under the recesses of the corrugations, which are made of suitable shape to
admit this, and the tongue is thus protected from any possibility of tearing the paper.
We may turn up the extreme edge or edges of the band to form a convenient hold
for the thumb or finger for withdrawal.

page_text: We may equivalently form the end of the band with a head which has a neck
smaller than the head below it, and the said head may be caused to engage and lock
in suitable slots in the plain part of the band through which the head may be
inserted.
Or equivalently, the side cheeks of the head may be bent down, so that they will
engage in the suitable slot in the plain part of the band, without it being necessary
to push the head through the slot.
There are obviously many equivalent ways in which we may form the head of one
end of the band and the corresponding slots into which it is desired it shall engage
without departing from the nature of our invention.
11
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FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: We, ALLISON BELL LENNOX, of 11 Finsbury Square, in the City of London,
Engineer, and JOHN HUBERT WHARTON, of St. Martins House, Ludgate Hill, in the
City of London, Financial broker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to an improved means for binding bundles of papers or
other parcels or materials together in place of india-rubber rings, string or tape.
Our invention consists of a strip of thin flexible metal which is capable of being
lapped around any bundle of papers or other articles, and is so constructed that one
end may be made to easily engage and lock with the other, when the two ends are
brought together around the parcel or article.
In order that our invention may be the better understood, we now proceed to
describe the same in relation to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed, reference
being had to the letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 1 represents our device in plan, and
Figure 2 in sectional elevation.
We stamp a tongue C in one end of the band A which tongue is cut round three
sides, and allowed to adhere to the band with the fourth, and in the other end of
the band we stamp out slots B of suitable shape, into which the said tongue may
engage and lock when drawn over the said slots and allowed to slip back a short
distance. To ensure easy engagement of the tongue in the slots, we corrugate a
portion of the material of the band immediately behind the slot, so that the slots are
presented on the ridges, thus forming pockets into which the tongue can engage
with certainty and ease. At the same time the tongue, after it has passed through
the slots, will in this case lie under the recess of the corrugation in which it is
engaged, and the tongue is thus protected from any possibility of tearing the material
around which the band is placed. We may turn up the extreme edge or edges
of the band as shown at D, to form a convenient hold for the thumb or finger for
withdrawal.
Though in the drawing we have shown several slots to permit of the band accomo-
dating itself to any circumference, yet in certain uses to which our band may be
adapted, for instance as a bracelet, or waist band, one slot might be sufficient.
It is obvious that besides the uses which we have specified, to which our invention
may be applied, there are many others, but the essential advantage of our invention
is that the particular form of clasp specified may be manufactured by stamping
machinery from the material itself and turned out at an extremely economical price,

page_text: and moreover provides an interlock which can only be broken by a clean shear of
the metal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
The construction of a clasp band with tongues engaging in slots upon corrugations
forming pockets, substantially as and for the purposes specified.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.