IMPROVEMENTS IN BALE TIES OR BANDS IRON HOOP FENCING AND OTHER ARTICLES OR STRUCTURES FORMED OF HOOP IRON OR STEEL
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Hale of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster for
an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALE TIES OR BANDS IRON HOOP FENCING
AND OTHER ARTICLES OR STRUCTURES FORMED OF HOOP IRON OR STEEL
"
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Hale at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th March 1883.
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EDWARD HALE of Liverpool in the county of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BALE TIES OR BANDS, IRON HOOP FENCING, AND OTHER ARTICLES OR STRUCTURES
FORMED OF HOOP IRON OR STEEL
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By existing modes of making hoop or band joints and fastenings for the ends of
hoops or bands for bales, casks, fencings, and other similar purposes, rivets, studs
or buckles are ordinarily used.
The hoops as sold in the market, are simply plain bands, cut to lengths required,
and bent or twisted, or with rivet or stud holes punched, cut or drilled in the ends
in such a way as to weaken the hoops and often cause breakages. In many cases
the hoops are required to be of such long lengths as to necessitate coiling or putting
up into bulky packages, so as to be a great inconvenience and cause extra cost to
the manufacturer, carrier and consumer.
The present invention seeks to obviate these difficulties inherent in the existing
modes and to provide hoops or bands with strengthened metallic joints, and made
up into convenient bundles or packages which practically meet the requirements at
much less cost.
The mode of carrying out my invention for hooping for Indian bales in which a
very long bale tie is wound round the hoop from one end to the other in a spiral
manner also for hoop fencing is as follows. I cut the hoop iron into convenient
lengths for carriage. At the ends of this, I rivet by means of small rivets, say
number 10 size, so as to weaken the section as little as possible, a steel or iron
plate, & I joint these ends armed with plates into one long band of the required
length by means of a single hinge rivet in each joint, the plates in all instances
being preferably on the outside and not the joint side of the band. The plate thus
greatly strengthens the end, the small rivets holding it to its place while the large
[Price 6d1

page_text: hinge rivet has a bearing upon both plate and band.. The various short lengths of
band being hinged together by a single rivet can be shipped folded or closed over
each other, until a convenient number are made up into a compact shook, and two
or three of these shooks wired together will form a handy package, easy to carry,
simple to open and extend to the full length or lengths. When applied to fencing
the various long lengths can be connected in the field by studs, bolts or rivets the
terminals being formed with the button and locking button hole as in bale ties or
other convenient form of fastening for this purpose.
Ordinary, hoops for barrels I form in a somewhat similar manner, namely, to each
end I rivet by small rivets a steel or iron plate taking care to have only one rivet
in the breadth so as to weaken the hoop as little as possible. then through the hoop
and plate I punch the holes and fix the buttons or other fasteners in such manner
that the strength of the united section left unpunched shall be at least as strong as
the band or hoop where traversed by the small rivet nearer the centre of the band
or hoop. Where buckles are used the hooks usually break at the point where they
bend over the buckle-to obviate this I use stronger ends fastened on with two or
more rivets in the manner described, the smallest rivet being furthest from the
buckle and no two rivets in the same cross section of band.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Hale in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th September
1883.
EDWARD HALE of Liverpool in the county of Lancaster "IMPROVEMENTS - IN
BALE TIES OR BANDS, IRON HOOP FENCING, AND OTHER ARTICLES OR STRUCTURES
FORMED OF. HOOP IRON OR STEEL
"
By existing modes of making hoop or band joints and fastenings for the ends of
hoops or bands for bales, casks, fencings, and other similar purposes, rivets, studs or
buckles are ordinarily used.
The hoops as sold in the market, are simply plain bands, cut to lengths required,
and bent or twisted, or with rivet or stud-holes punched, cut, or drilled in the ends
in such a way as to weaken the hoops and often cause breakages. In many cases
the hoops are required to be of such long lengths as to necessitate coiling or putting
up into bulky packages, so as to be a great inconvenience and cause extra cost to
the manufacturer, carrier, and consumer.
The present invention seeks to obviate these difficulties inherent in the existing
modes and to provide hoops or bands with strengthened metallic joints and made
up into convenient bundles or packages which practically meet the requirements at.
much less cost.
The mode of carrying out my invention for hooping for Indian bales in which a
very long bale tie is wound round the hoop from one end to the other in a spiral
manner, also for hoop fencing, is as follows.
This long hoop, set forth in Figs 1 to 2 of the annexed drawings, and the
principle exemplified in this instance will be found carried out in the various
modifications and combinations hereinafter mentioned. In these figures, Fig. 1
shows a single band jointed up on my improved plan, and Fig. 2 three bands
bundled together for export.
In all these, A is the hoop. B a strengthening plate at end. CC small rivets
to attach the plate to the larger plate. D D holes for buttons or rivets, or tho
buttons or rivets themselves as the case may be. It will be seen that the bale tie
hoop is cut into pieces A of convenient length for carriage; at the ends of these
steel or iron plates B are rivetted by small rivets C, say No 10 in size, so as to
weaken the section as little as possible. The united plate and hoop are together
as strong in cross section at the large rivet holes as the hoop (with the little
additional strength given by the plate at that point) is at the small rivet hole.
These pieces of hoop strengthened in this way at the ends are rivetted or jointed
together into one long band of the required length by means of the single hinge.
rivet, or a winged stud rolled with cylindrical shank in each joint. The strength-
ening plates are in all instances preferably on the outside and not the joint side of
the band. The plate thus greatly strengthens the end, the small rivets holding it
to its place, while the large hinge rivet has a bearing upon both plate and band.
The various short lengths of band, being hinged together by a single rivet, can be
shipped, folded, or closed over each other until a convenient number are made up
into a compact shook, as shown in Fig. 1, and two or three of these shooks wired
together, as shown in Fig. 2 will form a handy package easy to carry, simple to
open, and extend to the full length or lengths. When applied to fencing the various
long lengths can be connected in the field by studs, bolts, or rivets, the terminals
being formed with the button and locking button-hole as in bale ties or other
convenient form of fastening for this purpose.
Ordinary hoops for barrels, I form in a somewhat similar manner, namely to

page_text: each end I rivet by small rivets a steel or iron plate, taking care to have only one
rivet in the breadth so as to weaken the hoop as little as possible, then through
the hoop and plate I punch 'the holes and fix the buttons or other fasteners, in such
manner that the strength of the united section left unpunched shall be at least as
strong as the band or hoop where traversed by the small rivet nearer the centre of
the band or hoop. Where buckles are used, the hooks usually break at the point
where they bend over the buckle; to obviate this I used stronger ends fastened on
with two or more rivets in the manner described. The smallest rivet being furthest
from the buckle and no two rivets in the same cross section of band. Figs 3 to 6
separate pieces to suit the various modes of fastening usually adopted.
This plan of a strengthening piece of iron or steel, with a strengthening piece of
hoop iron with a smaller rivet to join the strengthening piece and a larger rivet
through both pieces to do the work, can be applied to almost any article or structure
'formed of hoop iron or steel in whole or in part, which in the process of manu-
facture or use is punched or weakened at any point or points, where it is desirable
to maintain a strength as nearly equal as possible to. that of the unpunched or
unweakened portion.
Having now described my invention and the best mode known to me of carrying
it into effect, I wish it to be understood that what I believe to be new and desire
to protect under the letters patent is :—
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1st. The manufacture of bale ties or bands, iron hoop: fencing, or other articles or
structures formed of hoop iron or steel, with the punched or drilled ends or
other parts strengthened by means of plates attached to the bands without
seriously weakening them, substantially as described.
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*2nd. The manufacture of bale ties or band iron hoop fencing and other long lengths
of hoop iron or steel, constructed in short lengths and jointed together;
substantially as described, and also the arrangement of such ties or fencing in
compact shooks for export, substantially as described.
In witness whereof I, the said Edward Hale have hereunto set my hand and
seal this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty three