Year: 1887

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Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 10th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Oct., 1888
I JOHN DUXBURY of the firm of Lomnitz and Duxbury of Number 44 Blackfriars
Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster Merchants do hereby declare the
nature of my invention to be as follows:
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My said Invention relates to means for securing the overlapping ends of the hoops
which surround bales as is well understood. Various modes other than the usual
rivetting process have been tried to secure the said hoops but with only partial success.
According to my invention I provide a casting or box or frame through which
a slit from end to end and wide enough to allow the box to be slipped over the
overlapping ends of the hoop when they are placed together. Directly across the
central part of this slit I form a circular recess which communicates and is in line
with a hole in each side of the box. I also provido a pin with a tapering or wedgo
point and drive the said pin between the overlapping hoop ends so as to force out the
metal of the hoop ends into the recess in the box. By this enlargement of the hoop
metal into the recess, a positive locking of the hoop ends in the box is effected rendering
it impossible to withdraw them from the box. It will be evident that instead of
driving the bulging pin between the hoop ends so as to bulge them in opposite directions.
it may be driven on one side so as to bulge them in the same direction to one side.
I however prefer the arrangement first referred to. The recess in the locking box or
frame and also the bulging pin might be of a section other than circular, and more
than one such bulging pin may be used if desired. In using my invention it is not
necessary to leave any slack in the sides of the bale as is sometimes done to expedite
the fastening of the hoop ends; so that the bale retains the same or nearly the same
dimensions when it has left the press as it had when under pressure. I thus effect
considerable economy in transport charges as the bale occupies less space.
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DUTTON & FULTON,
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page_text: I JOHN DUXBURY of the firm of Lomnitz and Duxbury of Number 44 Blackfriars
Street Manchester in the County of Lancaster Merchants do hereby declare the nature
of my Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying
drawings:
My said Invention relates to means for securing the overlapping ends of the hoops
which surround bales as is well understood. Various modes other than the usual
rivetting process have been tried to secure the said hoops but with only partial success.
According to my Invention I provide a casting or box or frame through which I form
a slit from end to end and wide enough to allow the box to be slipped over the
overlapping ends of the hoop when they are placed together. Directly across the
central part of this slit I form a circular or other suitably shaped recess which
communicates and is in line with a hole in each side of the box. I also provide a pin
with a tapering or wedge point and drive the said pin between the overlapping hoop
ends so as to force out the metal of the hoop ends into the recesses in the box. By
this enlargement of the hoop metal into the recesses, a positive locking of the hoop
ends in the box is effected rendering it impossible to withdraw them from the box.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I will now
proceed more particularly to describe the same with reference to the annexed sheet of
drawings.
Fig. 1 is a cross sectional view of my improved fastener with the overlapping ends
of the hoops shown locked by the pin.
Fig. 2 is a plan view in section.
Fig. 3 is a separate view of the locking pin.
Fig. 4 is an outside view of the fastener in plan.
The improved fastener consists of a metal box or part a which I consider will be
most easily formed by casting although I do not confine myself to this method of
formation. The box or part a is formed with a slit or passage through its central part
which is intended to receive the overlapping ends of the hoop b. Directly across the
central part of the box a and at right angles to the aforesaid slit or passage I form a
circular or other suitably shaped hole which is of such a size as to create a chamber or
recess in the material on each side of the slit. I also provide a pin or cottar e (shown
at Fig. 3) of a circular, oval or other section the diameter or size of which will be
about the thickness of the hoop less than the size of the last mentioned hole or chamber
formed across the slit. The leading end of the said pin or cottar is pointed or made
wedge shaped so as to allow of its being easily entered and driven between the
overlapping hoop ends. In securing bale hoop ends with my improved fastener, when
the bale has been compressed and the ends of the hoops have been made to overlap
I slip the fastener a over the said overlapping hoop ends and then insert the wedge
shaped end of the pin or cottar c through the transverse hole at one side of the fastener

page_text: and drive it between the overlapping hoop ends forcing the portions of the hoop which
are in contact with the pin or cottar into the chamber or recess which, as has been
said exists on each side of the slit in the fastener. By thus bulging the overlapping
portions of the hoop into the recesses on each side of the slit by the forcing action of
the pin or cottar I lock the hoop ends in the fastener so that they cannot possibly be
withdrawn. It will be evident that instead of driving the bulging pin between the
hoop ends so as to bulge them in opposite directions it may be driven through the
fastener on one side so as to bulge them in the same direction to one side. I however
prefer the arrangement first referred to. The recess in the locking box or frame and
also the bulging pin might be of a sectional form other than circular, and more than
one such bulging pin may be used if desired. In asing my invention it is not
necessary to leave any slack in the sides of the bale as is sometimes done to expedite
the fastening of the hoop ends; so that the bale retains the same or nearly the same
dimensions when it has left the press as it had when under pressure. I thus effect
considerable economy in transport charges as the bale occupies less space.
Having now particularly ascertained and described the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is.
A bale hoop fastener consisting of a box frame or part containing a slit or passage
to receive the overlapping ends of the hoop, and having also a transverse cottar or pin
hole or holes forming chambers or recesses on each side of the slit in combination
with a pin or cottar or pins or cottars for forcing or bulging the metal of the hoop
into the said chambers or recesses and so locking and holding the overlapping hoop
ends within the fastener, substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
Datad this Sixth day of Santember 1888
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.