Improvements in the Mode of Fastening or Securing Sacks, Bags, or other Parcels.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 29th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Oct., 1887
ESERVE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of Fastening or Securing Sacks, Bags,
or other Parcels.
I, EDWIN WEST KILLICK of Lily Villa, Northfleet, in the County of Kent, Cement
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:—
The improvements consist in furnishing sacks, bags, parcels and similar receptacles
with a fixed or adjustable cleat of metal or wood, or of other convenient material.
Said cleat having attached to it one end of a metal wire or wires, chain or ordinary
string, rope or such like, and by means of such cleat and attachment securing,
fastening and closing the sacks, bags or parcels by passing round said sack bag or
parcels the free length of above wire or string and securing same round the cleat by
twisting it or otherwise. Sometimes I dispense with the cleat and fasten with metal
wire alone.
1000
HERBERT & Co.,
67, Strand, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of Fastening or Securing Sacks, Bags,
or other Parcels.
I, EDWIN WEST KILLICK, of Lily Villa, Northfleet, in the County of Kent, Cement
Manufacturer, 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 :-
The improvements consist in furnishing sacks, bags, parcels and similar receptacles
with a fixed or adjustable cleat of metal or wood or of other convenient material.
Said cleat having attached to it one end of a metal wire or wires, chain or ordinary
string, rope, or such like, and by means of such cleat and attachment securing,
fastening and closing the sacks, bags or parcels by passing round said sack, bag or
parcel the free length of above wire or string and securing same round the cleat by
twisting it or otherwise.
In place of such cleat I may however attach one end of the chain, wire, rope or
tho like to the material of the sack, bag, or other article, and secure said article by
passing the chain etc. about the same and securing it to or near the fixed end in any
desired manner.
Referring to the accompanying drawings Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate a cleat with a
part of a chain. Fig. 3 illustrates a cleat with wire. Fig. 4 illustrates a parcel
secured with a chain and cleat according to this invention. Fig. 5 shows a part of
a sack showing the mouth fastened or secured by such a cleat & chain.
A is the cleat supported by a pin B connecting it rigidly to the plate or base C.
The cleat may have various forms for instance such as shown in Fig. in which it
is provided at one end with a square projecting shoulder a and at the other end with
a downwardly projecting hook b. It may however be formed without such shoulder
or without such hook or with a tapered shoulder a¹ such as shown in Fig. 2 with or
without such hook, or with such at each end as shown in Fig. 3, the latter being
preferably for use with cord or wire, the former two modifications being more adapted
for chains.
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The pin B is preferably cylindrical and the base C
convenient shape,
and may be in the form of a bar, or an oval or circular plate as Fig. 1, or frame as
Fig. 3, or a crescent as in Fig. 2, the pin standing at the centre of the outer circular
boundary of the plate.
The manner of using such cleat with a wire is obvious from Fig. 3, the wire being
fixed around the pin B and passed about the object to be secured, and wound upon
the cleat.
When chains are used the links thereof will be of a sufficient size to enable the
following operations to be performed.
The last link of the chain is passed horizontally over the broad shoulder of the
cleat. Having passed upon the narrower part of this arm of the cleat the said link

page_text: is turned upward and passed downward over the hooked end of the cleat arriving
thereby around the pin B. The chain is now passed firmly about the object, and
the link arriving nearnest to the cleat is passed thereover in the manuer described thus
securing the object. In securing a parcel by such means the chain having been
passed around the parcel in one direction and secured to the cleat as described, may,
if its length permit, be continued around the parcel in any other direction and the
respective link arriving near the cleat, secured over the same. If any chain yet
remains, the last link may be secured over the cleat, the bight or loop so formed serving
as a handle.
The cleat may also serve as a handle for light parcels.
A padlock may secure the fastening by passing through such links of different parts
of the chain as lie conveniently near to or over each other.
I do not confine myself to the shape of cleats herein shown, or to the means of
securing the cleats to sacks or parcels or the like. In fact I may use such cleats
secured or unsecured to the sack parcel or the like.
When the cleats are however so secured pierce or cut a hole or slit in such sack
or object sufficient for the passage of one arm of the cleat (the broadened arm of the
shoulder cleat Figs. 1 & 2) and pass the same through first, and afterwards the shorter
arm. In the case of the crescent base plate shown in Fig. 2 I pass one horn of such
crescent through the slit, revolving the cleat until the other crescent follows through
the slit.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The improved method of securing sacks, parcels and similar objects, consisting
in passing about said object a chain wire cord or the like attached at one end to a
cleat or to the object, and fastening the same upon or by the cleat or to the fixed end
of the chain, wire, cord or the like, substantially as set forth.
2. For the securing of sacks parcels and similar objects-a cleat consisting of
the parts A. B and in combination with a chain, wire or cord substantially as set
forth.