AN IMPROVED MODE OF AND MEANS FOR UNITING AND SECURING THE ENDS OF BANDS OR HOOPS DESIGNED FOR BALING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER SUB- STANCES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Solomon Woodall, of Dudley, Worcestershire,
Manufacturer, and Jacob Martin Van Winkle, of Laurence Pountney
Hill, in the City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MODE OF AND MEANS FOR UNITING AND SECURING THE ENDS OF
BANDS OR HOOPS DESIGNED FOR BALING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER SUB-
STANCES."
Sealed the 8th March 1867, and dated the 12th September 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Solomon Woodall and
Jacob Martin Van Winklo at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 12th September 1866.
We, SOLOMON WOODALL, of Dudley, Worcestershire, Manufacturer, and
JACOB MARTIN VAN WINKLE, of Laurence Pountney Hill, in the City of
London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED MODE OF AND MEANS FOR UNITING AND SECURING THE ENDS OF BANDS
OR HOOPS DESIGNED FOR BALING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," to be as
follows:-
The said Invention relates to metal bands or hoops designed for binding
bales of cotton, wool, and other substances, and consists chiefly in the means
employed for uniting and securing the ends of these bands or hoops, whereby

page_text: the said ends may be readily united and secured without riveting, and readily
released without destruction or injury to the bands or hoops. The said band is
cut of any required length, and at one end oblong or oval holes or slots are
formed at convenient intervals to adapt the said band to bales of different
sizes. The opposite end of the band is provided with a revolving catch or
button, the shank of which is secured by riveting or otherwise in a manner to
admit of its turning in its socket without becoming detached from the band.
The head of this catch or button is of a form corresponding with that of the
said holes or slots in the opposite end of the band, though somewhat smaller,
to admit the ready passage of the catch or button through the said holes or slots;
the said head of the catch or button unlike that of an ordinary button only
projects on one side of the shank, and the latter is of sufficient length to allow
the head to be easily turned when passed through the said holes or slots. The
bale of cotton, wool, or other substance is first compressed by hydraulic or
other power, and then the band is passed around the bale; the end containing
the slots overlapping the end in which the catch or button is secured till the
said catch or button (the projecting portion being turned towards the end of
the band to which the catch is secured) comes flush or directly over the slots
or boles; the end of the band is forced down, the catch or button passing
through the hole or slot; the projecting portion of the head of the catch or
button is then turned to the opposite side of the hole or slot, thereby locking
the cnds of the hoop together and confining the same securely around the
bale. The projecting portion of the head if turned to lie across the band will
hold the ends though less securely. To remove the band from the bale the
projecting portion of the said head is again turned to its first position, allowing
the other end of the band to be readily removed from the catch or button,
thereby disconnecting the two ends of the said band. The end of the band
which contains the slots when the two ends are locked is kept close to the
portion of the band over which it lies by means of one or more slides or clips;
the said slides or clips are constructed of any suitable and convenient form to
enable the two thicknesses of band to pass through them and to render them
capable of being drawn readily over the end containing the holes or slots and
to be easily removed therefrom when required; the advantages of this band or
hoop is convenience and economy in its use, as it may be readily secured
around the bale and removed, while the same band may be repeatedly used for
a similar purpose.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Solomon Woodall and Jacob Martin Van Winkle in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th March 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SOLOMON
WOODALL, of Dudley, Worcestershire, Manufacturer, and JACOB MARTIN VAN
WINKLE, of Laurence Pountney Hill, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of September, 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 us, the said
Solomon Woodall and Jacob Martin Van Winkle, Her special license that we,
the said Solomon Woodall and Jacob Martin Van Winkle, our executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Solomon Woodall and
Jacob Martin Van Winkle, our 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 "AN IMPROVED
MODE OP AND MEANS FOR UNITING AND SECURING THE ENDS OF BANDS OR HOOPS
DESIGNED FOR BALING COTTON, WOOL, ADD OTHER SUBSTANCES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the 'said Solomon Woodall and Jacob Martin Van
Winkle, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of their bands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jacob Martin Van Winkle, on behalf
of myself and the said Solomon Woodall, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings making a part of
this Specification:-
The said Invention relates to metal bands or hoops designed for binding
bales of cotton, wool, and other substances, and consists chiefly in the
means employed for uniting and securing the ends of these bands or hoops,

page_text: whereby the said ends may be readily united and secured without riveting,
and readily released without destruction or injury to the bands or hoops.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan of the ends of a band or hoop; Figure 2 is a section
through the line x, x, Figure 1; Figure 3 is a transverse section through
the line y, y, Figure 1; Figure 4 is a similar section on the line,,
Figure 1.
Figure 5 represents a bale of cotton secured by bands or hoops united by
my improved fastenings.
Like letters refer to corresponding parts in each of the Figures.
The bands A are cut of any required length, and at one end oblong or
oval holes or slots B are perforated at convenient intervals to adapt the said
bands to bales of different sizes. The opposite end of the band is provided
with a revolving catch or button C, the shank D of which is secured by
riveting or otherwise, in a manner to admit of its turning in its socket
without becoming detached from the band. The head of this catch C is of
a form corresponding with that of the said holes or slots B in the opposite
end of the band, though somewhat smaller to admit the ready passage of the
catch or button C through the said holes or slots. The said head of the
catch or button unlike that of an ordinary button only projects on one side
of the shank D, and the latter is of sufficient length to allow the head C to
be easily turned when passed through the said holes or slots. The bale of
cotton, wool, or other substance is first compressed by hydraulic or other
power, and then the band is passed around the bale, the end containing the
slots Boverlapping the end in which the catch or button C is secured till
the said catch or button (the projecting portion being turned towards the
end of the band in which the catch is secured) comes flush or directly under
the slots or holes; the end of the band is forced down, the catch or button
passing through the hole or slot; the projecting portion of the head of the
catch or button is then turned to the opposite side of the hole or slot, thereby
locking the ends of the hoop together and confining the same securely around
the balc ; the projecting portion of the head if turned to lie across the band
will hold the ends, though less securely. To remove the band from the bale
the projecting portion of the said bead is again turned to its first position,
allowing the other end of the band to be readily removed from the catch or
button, thereby disconnecting the two ends of the said band. The end of
the band which contains the slots B when the two ends are locked is kept
close to the portion of the band over which it lies by means of one or more

page_text: slides or clips E. The said slides or clips are constructed of any suitable and
convenient form to enable the two thicknesses of the hoop to pass through
them, and to render them capable of being drawn readily over the end
containing the holes or slots, and to be easily removed therefrom when
required. The advantages of this band or hoop are convenience and economy
in its use, as it may be readily secured around the bale and removed, while
the same band may be repeatedly used for a similar purpose.
Having thus fully described our said Invention, and shown how the same
may be conveniently and advantageously carried into practice, we claim the
combination of the catches or buttons C with the hoops or bands A, and with
or without the clips E, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jacob Martin Van Winkle, on behalf of
myself and the said Solomon Woodall, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
W. ROB. LAKE,
JACOB MARTIN VAN WINKLE. (L.S.)
8, Southampton Buildings, W.C.