AN IMPROVED WIRE TIE FOR SECURING BALES OF COTTON OR WOOLLEN GOODS AND OTHER MERCHANDISE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Cole Lowber, of New Orleans, Louisiana,
United States of America, now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED WIRE TIE FOR SECURING BALES OF COTTON OR WOOLLEN
GOODS AND OTHER MERCHANDISE."
Sealed the 9th. October 1868, and dated the 24th April 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Cole Lowber
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 24th April 1868.
I, DANIEL COLE LOWBER, of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
of America, now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED WIRE TIE FOR SECURING BALES OF COTTON OR
WOOLLEN GOODS AND OTHER MERCHANDISE," to be as follows :-
The object of my Invention is the construction of a tie for binding
bales or trusses of cotton, wool, hay, and other materials or merchandise
in a safe and convenient manner, such tie, which is formed entirely

page_text: of metal wire, being manufactured at a very slight cost, and possessing
great strength with very little weight.
The nature of the said Invention consists chiefly in the novel means
for securing or uniting together the two ends of the wire after the tie
has been passed around a bale, truss, or bundle. The portion of the tie
which encircles the bale or truss is formed of iron or other wire of the
proper size or gauge to give the required strength. At one end of the
tie. I form a loop by turning back and twisting or coiling the extremity
of the wire. In this loop I secure a hook, which is also formed of iron
or other suitable wire, such wire being of a larger size than the other
wire to render the tie equally strong in all parts. At the other end of
the tie I form another loop or eye, and when the tie has been arranged
around the bale or truss the hook is inserted into this eye, the two ends
of the tie being thereby securely coupled together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Daniel Cole Lowber in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd October 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
COLE LOWBER, of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America,
now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Daniel Cole Lowber, Her special
licence, that I, the said Daniel Cole Lowber, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others, as I, the said Daniel Cole Lowber,
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
"AN IMPROVED WIRE TIE FOR SECURING. BALES OF COTTON OR WOOLLEN GOODS"

page_text: AND OTHER MERCHANDISE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Daniel Cole Lowber, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 Daniel Cole Lowber, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings forming a part of this Specification :-
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The object of my Invention is the construction of a tie for binding
bales or trusses of cotton, wool, hay, and other materials or merchandise
in a safe and convenient manner, such tie, which is formed entirely of
metal wire, being manufactured at a very slight cost, and possessing great
strength with very little weight.
The nature of the said Invention consists chiefly in the novel means
for securing or uniting together the two ends of the wire after the tie has
been passed around a bale, truss, or bundle. The portion of the tie
which encircles the bale or truss is formed of iron or other metal wire
of the proper size or gauge to give the required strength. At one end of
the tie I form a loop by turning back and twisting or coiling the
extremity of the wire. In this loop I secure a hook, which is also
formed of iron or other suitable metal wire, such wire being, of a larger
size than the other wire to render the tie equally strong in all parts. At
the other end of the tie I form another loop or eye, and when the tie has
been arranged around the bale or truss the hook is inserted into this eye,
the two ends of the tie being thereby securely coupled together..

page_text: The wire a is made of any required strength, and long enough to pass
around the bale of cotton or other material. The twisting or coiling of
the part 1 on the part 2 of the said wire to form the loops b and c may
be effected by any suitable bending. or twisting apparatus or mechanism,
the ends of the wire being first properly heated, and care being taken
that the two parts are securely and closely twisted together without
breaking or injuring the wire. To form the hook d I use wire which
has a much larger sectional area than the wire a, so that the strength
of the tie to resist the tensile strain produced by the expansion of the
cotton or other substance forming the bale will be equal in all parts. I
cut the wire into the proper length to form the hook, and then heat and
bend the same into the required form. The hook may be readily
inserted into one of the loops c, its two sides being compressed together,
as shown in Figure 1, to prevent the slipping of the hook from the loop.
The hook & being thus attached to the wire a the tie is ready for use.
The bale or truss to which the said tie is to be applied is compressed by
any suitable means to reduce its bulk; the tie is then passed around
the said bale, and the hook d, which is secured in the loop c, is hooked
into the other loop b. The desired number of ties having been placed
around the bale, the same is released from the press, and the expansion
of the bale will keep the hook tight in the loop 6, and will prevent any
possibility of the tie becoming accidentally unfastened.
Having thus fully described my said Invention I claim a bale tie
constructed entirely of wire, and consisting of the part a, which encircles
the bale, and the hook d, which is secured to a loop at one end of the
part a in such a manner that it will engage with a loop on the other
end of the said part and secure the tie around, the bale, substantially
as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Cole Lowber, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of September, in
DANIEL COLE LOWBER. (L.S.)