IMPROVEMENTS IN BALE HOOPS AND OTHER BANDS,PARINGTINGRING
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William McNabb, of No. 6, Cambridge Terrace,
London Road, Clapton, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALE HOOPS AND OTHER BANDS,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William McNabb at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 29th March 1870.
I, WILLIAM MCNABB, of No. 6, Cambridge Terrace, London Road,
Clapton, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
naturo of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALE HOOPS AND OTHER
BANDS, AND IN PREPARING, FITTING, AND SECURING THE ENDS THEREOF," to be as
follows:-
My improvements in bale hoops and other metallic hoops or bands
employing for baling cotton, wool, or packed goods which have been

page_text: subjected to great pressure in the process of packing for transport,
consist in making two longitudinal slits, either parallel or at a slight
inclination to or angle with each other, at or near to each end of such
hoops or bands, or wherever else they are required to be attached or
fastened and secured together. The slits so made permit of the material
on each side thereof being suitably raised or depressed or bent out of
the original position; thus it may be that two outside portions are bent
down, knuckle like, and the central portion may be similarly bent up,
or vice versa, or the central portion only may in some cases be bent up
and stretched to elongate it to a sufficient extent, the side portions
remaining unbent and unstrained, or the relations of the two portions
may be reversed. Upon both ends or the two parts of a hoop being
correspondingly treated they are brought together one above the other
or overlapping, and the knuckle joints thus formed by the overlapping
can be secured by the insertion transversely of a pin between the raised
or separated portions of the hoop, or be otherwise fastened, as herein-
after stated. .
More than one set of slits may be made in each end of a hoop or
band, and the slitting and bending of these may be done by the same
instrument or tool at one operation, and to any guage or distance apart
longitudinally, so that the portions of the hoop thus dedicated to the
purpose of fastening may overlap to the extent required for one, two, or
more of such joints.
The same mode of preparing, fitting, and securing hoops or bands.
may be employed for joining hoops, bands, and belts for various
purposes.
In some cases the middle portion, formed by or between the two
side slits, may be "cross cut" at one end or at the middle; and when
the two parts or thicknesses of hoop are brought together and made to
overlap, the tongue or tongues thus formed may be bent up and back-
ward, so as to combine and lock the two thicknesses together without
the use of a pin.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William McNabb in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th September 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MCNABB, of No. 6, Cambridge Terrace, London Road, Clapton, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William McNabb, Her special licence that
I, the said William McNabb, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said William McNabb, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 BALE HOOPS AND OTHER
BANDS, AND IN PREPARING, FITTING, AND SECURING THE ENDS THEREOF," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William McNabb, 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 mouths next and im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William McNabb, 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 and the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings:-
My improvements in bale hoops and other metallic hoops or bands em-
ployed for baling cotton, wool, or packed goods, or goods which have been
subjected to great pressure in the process of packing for the purpose of
being transported, consist in making in such hoops or bands longitudinal
slits formed in some one or other of the modes or manners herein-after
described and shewn in the Drawings annexed. The slits are so made

page_text: or placed in the respective ends of the hoops or bands intended to be
connected that when the ends are brought together suitable fastening
pins may be introduced, as herein-after described with reference to the
respective Figures shewn on the Drawings, and so a variety of secure,
simple, and efficient fastenings may be made.
I am aware that slits formed in the ends of hoops or bands have been
heretofore attempted to be used for connecting the ends of bands or
hoops, and in some cases two parallel longitudinal slits placed side by
side have been proposed to be used, but such slits have not formed
efficient fastenings.
I make no claim to the use generally of longitudinal slits and
fastening pins for connecting the ends of bale hoops, but my Invention
consists in such use of them as is heroin-after described with reference
to the various fastenings shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
It should be observed that in making the slits in the bands or hoops of
iron or other material the material on each side of the slits may bo
raised or depressed, or bent out of the original position, as hercin-after
more particularly described and illustrated. Thus, it may be that the
two outside parts or portions formed by the slits when made in an
angular form may be bent up and the central taper or dovetail portion
be bent down, forming a knuckle-like joint, and the fastening pin or
strip be inserted between the thicknesses of the material when the over-
lapping portions of the hoop are brought together. Thus, in addition to
the dovetailing as it were of the two thicknesses, or parts, or portions of the
hoop or band together the locking pin, or piece, key, or cotter, or other
fastening piece forms an additional security. Of course the relation of
the parts to one another may be reversed, and the middle portion of the
material forming the dovetail may be bent up, whilst the material on
each side of the slits may be bent down, and both parts or portions may
be bent to the like or same extent; or the one portion may be stretched
to elongate it to a slight extent so as to keep the one face of the hoop
straight, whilst the other face may present a raised surface, corrugation,
or knuckle-like form. Thus, in some cases, the central portion only may
be bent up and slightly stretched, or the side portion may be bent up
and the other portion remain unbent and unstrained; but whenever
there are two slits made side by side in the hoop they should be made at
an angle to each other, or nearer together at one end in the middle of
the width of the hoop than at the other, so as to form when they are

page_text: bent knuckle-like (either up or down) dovetail interlocking pieces, and
where there are two of such preparations in the same longitudinal
direction but near to each other, they may either be made with their
wide ends towards each other or otherwise arranged or disposed in rela-
tion to each other; and they may be made in the single end or thick-
ness of the hoop, or the end may be bent over so as to form two
thicknesses where the joint is to be made.
Inasmuch as my several improved forms of fastening may be more
readily understood by reference to Figures, I will now proceed to describe
them as they are shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
Figure 1 is a plan view of two single parts of a hoop or bale band
united having two slits, one in advance of the other, with a right and
left hand corrugation, and having a wide staple-like fastener inserted
thereinto, the one leg being inserted under and above, and the other
above and under corresponding halves or portions of the width of the
hoop.
Figure 2 is an edge view of Figure 1 shewing the mode in which the
corrugations are formed. The two prongs of the staple are shown, the
head of the staple being concealed.
Figure 3 is also a plan view, and shews two single parts united, being
the ends of a band hoop with a single slit; the slit being longer and
with a correspondingly longer single corrugation than shewn in Figure 1,
and having a staple-like fastener with its prongs closer together.
Figure 4 is an edge view of Figure 3, shewing the mode in which
the corrugations are formed. The two prongs of staple being shewn,
its head being concealed.
Figure 5 is also a plan view in which a much longer slit, with a
treble corrugation on each side of the slit is shewn, and having inserted
thereinto a tri-pronged fastener.
Figure 6 is an edge view of Figure 5, shewing the corresponding
corrugations; the three prongs of fastener being shown, its head being
concealed.
Figure 7 shows three sets of hoop ends, each end being prepared with
two short longitudinal slits, one in advance of the other, and in the same
axial line, and exhibiting the mode in which the bale hoops, having each
of their ends prepared as there shewn in accordance with my Invention,
may be combined together and secured or fastened together upon the bale

page_text: by means of short rods or pieces of narrow hooping extending across
from side to side of two bale hoops or pairs of bands, so as to distribute
uniformly the strain upon the several hoops by which the bale is bound
or secured. And, although in this Figure these slits are made one in
advance of the other in the same straight line, they may instead thereof
be angled with or to the sides of the hoop. In this view the corrugations
are all made to the same hand, the lower corrugations being upward on
the left and downward on the right side of each hoop; whilst they are
reversed in the upper slits, and the pins or rods extend across from the
extreme left to the extreme right of the adjoining hoops; but in some
cases, I prefer that the corrugations should be made "right and left
hand."
Figure 8 is a plan view of the overlapping portions of a hoop or the ends
of a metal band, wherein the two longitudinal slits are made, ono in
advance of the other or at some longitudinal distance apart, and not in
the central or axial line of the hoop or band as in Figures 1 to 7, &c.;
but whilst being parallel to the sides or edges of the hoop they are at
some distance apart and form parallel lines to and with each other.
Into these transverse openings formed by these slits and corrugations,
may be inserted either the fasteners e or f, and when the former is
employed the arrangement of the wide and narrow portions of the band
formed by the slits, may in each pair of bands be either right and left-
handed, or both right-handed, or both left-handed, as may be found most
convenient and suited to the particular purpose.
Figure 9 is a detached plan or face view of the overlapping ends of a
bale hoop, having two longitudinal slits parallel to cach other, but not
parallel to the sides of the hoop, the one being made in advance of tho
other longitudinally.
Figure 10 is a plan view of two ends of a bale hoop, each having two
pairs of slits or two preparations made therein, one pair in advance of;
the other; each pair of slits being "non-parallel," or they are inclined
toward each other at one end forming a taper middle portion, whereby a
dovetailing together of the two parts, portions, or thicknesses of the band
or hoop is effected, when super-imposed as shown. In this Figure both
of the dovetails are formed in the same direction, and the corrugations a
or bendings are alike in cach case. The fastening or securing of the
two thicknesses or parts or portions of the material together, is effected
by the insertion transversely of locking pins or pieces as shewn, which

page_text: fastening pieces may either be plain and of uniform thickness, or be
notched or recessed according to the width of the middle portion.
Figure 11 is an edge view of Figure 10, showing the form of the joints
and knucklings and the interlocking of the parts; although in Figures
10 and 11 only two pairs of slits and interlocking joints and fastenings
are shewn, there may be one, two, or more such.
Figure 12 is a plan view, somewhat similar to Figure 10, but the
taper slits and the dovetails formed by the middle portions are here
reversed in their relations to cach other; or the wide ends of the dovetails
are toward each other, besides the middle portions are shown one up and
one down, instead of being as in Figure 10.
Figure 13 is an edge view of Figure 12.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings the end of the bale hoop or
band that is uppermost in the plan view, is distinguished by the capital
letter A, whilst the other end of the hoop or band, which is the lower
one of the two at the overlapping, is distinguished by the compound
letter AB. In cach case the slits and other minor parts are distinguished
by small letters.
a being the angular slits, forming the taper or dovetail middle pieces
or portions of the width of the hoop or band; b, the single slits, that are
made longitudinally with the axial line of the hoop, and parallel to and
with the sides thereof, or both of which may be made parallel to the
sides of the hoop, and to cach other, but not in the same line, but at
some distance apart, as in Figure S; d, the short and simple pin, cotter,
or locking piece, which may either be cut from rod, hoop, or plate metal;
c, the longer rod or pin as applied at Figure 7; f, the wide staple,
employed as in Figure 1 for securing the ends of the hoop together,
where two longitudinal slits are made therein one in advance of the
other, either in the same axial line or in two longitudinal lines, the one
slit being nearer to the one edge or side of the hoop, than the other
slit as in Figure S; g, the close staple-like fastener employed in Figure 3
for securing together the ends of the bale hoop, having a single slit and
double corrugation by which the two transverse openings are made in
close proximity to each other; h, the tri-pronged staple fastener, shewn
in Figure 5, the three prongs being passed through corresponding
corrugations.

page_text: In each of the views I have shewn two single thicknesses of hoop or
band overlapping each other; but I prefer in some instances and for
some purposes to bend and double back each end of the hoop to form a
double thickness, so that when the two ends so bent are brought
together or made to overlap for the purpose of receiving the pin, staple,
or other fastener, it will pass through or between, and have four
thicknesses of material above and four thicknesses of the material
below.
Having now described my Invention and illustrated it' by the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings containing 13 Figures, I wish it to be under- :
stood that I claim, the improved forms of bale hoops or bands having
slits made in their ends, as and for the purposes herein-before described
and shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly. I claim the several combinations of parts forming respectively
the several modifications of improved fastenings for securing the ends 1
of bale hoops or other bands, as herein-before described and more
particularly illustrated by Figures 1 to 9 inclusive in the Sheet of
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William M°Nabb, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Twenty-eighth day of September, in 2
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
W. H. SMITH,
19, Salisbury Street,
Strand.
WILLIAM M°NABB. (L.S.)