Improvements in Means for Connecting the Ends of Bands and the like Together.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Connecting the Ends of Bands and the
like Together.
I, JOHN MCKECHNIE, 40, East Ferry Road, Cubitt Town, London, E., Boiler
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in means for connecting the ends of
bands and the like together, and the same is carried out as follows.
For purposes of illustration I will now refer to a metal band, the ends of which
it is desired to connect. One end of the band is provided with a desired number
of projections which may be carried upon a piece of metal which is attached to
one end of such band, said projections being caused to engage in corresponding
apertures in the other end of the band when required. The piece of metal is
tapered and I provide a sliding clip or collar adapted to maintain the projections
and apertures in their locking position, that is to say, the projections are main-
tained in the apertures owing to the clipping action of the sliding clip or collar.
Suitable means are provided for preventing the clip or collar from becoming
detached, such as by enlarging or providing projections upon one end of the
metal piece. If desired, the end of the band may be so shaped as to fulfil the
object of the metal piece, namely the locking action which takes place owing to
the tapering of the end of the metal piece carrying the projections.
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It will be seen that this form of connection can be applied to various uses,
and in the case of a metal band the tightness of the band, in the event of it
being placed around an object such as a bale of cotton and the like, may be
regulated according to the projections and apertures which are caused to engage
with one another.
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like Together.
I, JOHN MCKECHNIE, 40, East Ferry Road, Cubitt Town, E., London, Boiler
Maker, 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:-
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This invention relates to improvements in means for connecting the ends of
bands and the like together, and the same is carried out as follows.

page_text: For purposes of illustration I will now refer to a metal band, the ends of which
it is desired to connect. One end of the band is provided with a desired number
of projections which may be carried upon a piece of metal which is attached to
one end of such band, said projections being caused to engage in corresponding
apertures in the other end of the band when required. The piece of metal is
tapered and I provide a sliding clip or collar adapted to maintain the projections
and apertures in their locking position, that is to say, the projections are main-
tained in the apertures owing to the clipping action of the sliding clip or collar.
Suitable means are provided for preventing the clip or collar from becoming
detached, such as by enlarging or providing projections upon one end of the
metal piece. If desired, the end of the band may be so shaped as to fulfil the
object of the metal piece, namely the locking action which takes place owing to
the tapering of the end of the metal piece carrying the projections.
It will be seen that this form of connection can be applied to various uses,
and in the case of a metal band the tightness of the band, in the event of it
being placed around an object such as a bale of cotton and the like, may be
regulated according to the projections and apertures which are caused to engage
with one another.'"
For purposes of illustration I will now refer to the annexed drawings in
which:
Figure 1 is a side elevation shewing my invention in its locking position.
Figure 2 plan view of same.
Figure 3 view of the parts detached.
a is the piece of metal which is secured to one end of the band b in any
convenient manner. care the projections upon same, and d is the sliding clip.
e is the other end of the band having the aperture for engagement with the
projections e aforesaid. f are shoulders or projections formed upon the metal
piece a for the purpose of preventing the sliding clip or collar d from becoming
disengaged therefrom when the parts are in their unlocked position.
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. In means for connecting bands, and such like of the class herein described,
the combined construction and arrangement of the various parts substantially as
described and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth.
2. In means for connecting bands and such like, the employment of a tapered
piece of metal attached to one end of the band and having projections thereon
adapted to engage in apertures in the part to be connected, a sliding collar or clip
upon said tapered metal piece for the purpose of locking the parts together,
substantially as described and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 26th day of August 1899.