IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING OR FASTENING THE ENDS OF IRON AND OTHER METAL BANDS SURROUNDING BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER LIKE PACKAGES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Charles Lucy, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING
OR FASTENING THE ENDS OF IRON AND OTHER METAL BANDS SURROUNDING
BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER LIKE PACKAGES."-A communication from
abroad by Samuel Boyd, of the City of New Orleans, in the State of
T
one of the United States of America Merchant
Sealed the 4th June 1867, and dated 'the 8th December 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Charles Lucy at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th December 1866.
I, HENRY CHARLES LUCY, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CONNECTING OR FASTENING THE ENDS OF IRON AND OTHER METAL BANDS
SURROUNDING BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER LIKE PACKAGES," to be as follows (that
is to say):-
The object of this Invention is to prepare the hoop iron or other metal
bands so that the ends of the several straps or bands used for surrounding
bales of cotton or other packages may be connected together with greater
facility than heretofore during the time the bale is under pressure in the press,
and consists in using two flat-sided stud pieces, which are riveted through the

page_text: centre of one end of the strap. The outer stud is formed with a projection
or overhanging shoulder which points towards that end of the strap, and the
other which is placed, say, about three-quarters of an inch in rear of the first
one has a projecting neck in the opposite direction to the first. The backs or
tops of the studs are formed with inclined planes or curves, or both. The
reverse end of the strap is perforated with a number of longitudinal slots,
which extend in line along the centre of that end of the band sufficiently far
to compensate for any inequality in the size of the bale which they surround.
The mode of applying the band is by bringing the two ends of the strap or
band together whilst the goods it is surrounding are under pressure, and
buttoning the stud pieces into any of the two longitudinal slots, they being at
equal distance throughout. When the package is removed from pressure the
two ends of the band become locked.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Charles Lucy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th June 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
CHARLES LUCY, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Henry Charles Lucy,. Her special licence that I, the said Henry
Charles Lucy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Henry Charles Lucy, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING OR FASTENING THE ENDS OF IRON AND OTHER METAL
BANDS SURROUNDING BALES OF COTTON, AND OTHER LIKE PACKAGES," a com-
munication to me from abroad by Samuel Boyd, of the City of New Orleans,
in the State of Louisiana, one of the United States of America, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Charles Lucy, my execu
tors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or

page_text: 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 per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and inmediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
:
NOW KNOW YE, the said Henry Charles Lucy, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):-
The object of this Invention is to prepare the hoop iron or other metal
bands so that the ends of the several straps or bands used for surrounding
bales of cotton or other packages may be connected together with greater
facility than heretofore during the time the bale is under pressure in the press;
and consists in using two flat-sided stud pieces, which are riveted through the
centre of one end of the strap. The outer stud is formed with a projection or
overhanging shoulder, which points towards that end of the strap, and the
other, which is placed, say, about three-quarters of an inch in rear of the first
one, has a projecting neck in the opposite direction to the first. The backs
or tops of the studs are formed with inclined planes or curves, or both.. The
reverse end of the strap is perforated with a number of longitudinal slots,
which extend in line along the centre of that end of the band sufficiently far
to compensate for any inequality in the size of the bale which they surround.
The mode of applying the band is by bringing the two ends of the strap or
band together whilst the goods it is surrounding are under pressure, and
buttoning the stud pieces into any of the two longitudinal slots, they being at
equal distance throughout. When the package is removed from pressure the
two ends of the band become locked.
That this Invention may be the more readily seen and understood I have
hereunto annexed Drawings illustrating the Invention as applied to bale
straps.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the perforated end of the bale hoop, seen
broken off, with the locking stud pieces; Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of
the same; and Figures 3 and 4 are the same, shown detached; and Figure 5
is a top view or plan.
A, iron bale strap, one end of which is perforated by B a number of longi-
tudinal holes, to the reverse end of which is riveted C and C' the locking
studs.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of the said Inven-

page_text: tion, and how I believe the same may be best carried into practical effect,
what I claim is,-
First, the peculiar form of locking studs. or hoop pieces marked C and C',
and riveting the same into the end of the bale strap, substantially in the
manner and for the purposes herein-before described and set forth.
And, lastly, the stud pieces in combination with the longitudinal slots,
operated substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-before
described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Charles Lucy, have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal, this
day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
WILLIAM WALKER,
of 44, Castle Street,
Liverpool.
HENRY C. (L.S.) LUCY.