Improvements in Devices for Binding Bundles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Binding Bundles.
I, MARTIN BÄCHTOLD, of Ragaz, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of the present invention is a device for pressing bundles in order to
facilitate their binding with the commonly used bands.
The device is essentially composed of an iron pin, a wooden stick and a band
(chain, cord, wire or the like) connecting the two.
The pin has about its middle part, a grooved shoulder in which a ring is loosely
supported, this ring being provided with a hook.
To facilitate the working of it, the pin has a wooden handle at its upper part.
Between this and the shoulder a rotating socket is fitted and rests upon this latter.
The wooden stick bears at its upper part a ring which is fixed to it by means
of a screw and a washer. The band is soundly fixed with one extremity to the
ring of the stick whilst with its other extremity it is fastened to the hook of the
ring which is fixed to the pin.
This binder is employed as follows: The pin is thrust as far as its shoulder into
the bundle to be bound and the band is passed with the stick around this latter.
Afterwards the band is rolled, by means of the stick acting as a lever, around the
rotary socket of the pin, until the bundle to be bound, owing to the shortening
of the band resulting from this movement is sufficiently pressed, after which the
properly-so-called band can be applied.
Datad this 21st day of Dasambar 1907
L. DUVINAGE.
Patent Agent, S, Rue des Princes, Brussels, Belgium.
Improvements in Devices for Binding Bundles.
I, MARTIN BACHTOLD, of Ragaz, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The object of the present invention is a device for pressing bundles in order to
facilitate their binding with the commonly used bands.
This device is essentially composed, as shown in the annexed drawing, of au
iron pin, a, a wooden stick d, and a band (chain, cord, wire, or the like) con-
necting the two.

page_text: The pin a, has, about its middle part, a grooved shoulder b, in which a ring c¹,
is loosely supported, this ring being provided with a hook c³.
To facilitate its working, the pin has a wooden handle h, at its upper part.
Between this and the shoulder b, a rotating socket g, is fitted and rests upon this
latter.
The wooden stick bears at its upper part a ring e, which is fixed to it by means
of a screw and a washer f. The band c is soundly fixed with one extremity to
the ring e of the stick, whilst with its other extremity it is fastened to the hook c
of the ring c which is fixed to the pin.
This binder is employed as follows: The pin is thrust as far as its shoulder into
the bundle to be bound and the band c is passed with the stick d around this
latter. Afterwards the band is rolled, by means of the stick d acting as a lever,
around the rotary socket 9 of the pin a until the bundle to be bound, owing to
the shortening of the band c resulting from this movement is sufficiently pressed,
after which the properly-so-called band can be applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A device for allowing the easy binding of bundles distinguished by a pin to
thrust in the bundle a band loosely connected with said pin a stick connected with
said band and serving to turn the latter around said pin and means for allowing
the tightening of said band around the bundle substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.
2. A device for allowing the easy binding of bundles comprising a pin to thrust
into the bundle and provided with a handle and a grooved shoulder, a ring in
said grooved shoulder provided with a hook which connects it with a suitable
band, a stick connected with the free end of said band by means of an end ring
fixed to said stick by means of a screw and a washer, and a socket movably fitted
to said pin between its handle and grooved shoulder substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this 24th day of September, 1898.
DAY, DAVIES, & HUNT,
321 High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.