An Improved Manufacture of Bale Fastener.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, Oth Sept., 1995
Complete Specification Left. 9th June. 1896-Accepted. 11th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left. 9th June. 1896-Accepted. 11th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Bale Fastener.
I, DANIEL KEMP WEST of 23 St. Mary Axe in the City of London Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Heretofore the latchets employed for tying together the hoops used for baling
cotton and other bales have been made out of flat iron or steel bars by shearing
same into short lengths or blanks and punching slots therethrough. Now
according to my invention I produce latchets of greatly increased strength as
compared, weight for weight, with the ordinary latchets and I moreover greatly
decrease the cost as I am enabled to advantageously utilize in my improved
manufacture a material which has hitherto been a waste product. This material
consists in the waste ends of hoop iron or mild steel used as baling hoops. These
waste ends or pieces which are of great tensile strength 1 cut to the desired
uniform length, that is to say about 2, 3 or more times the length of the finished
article required, and I then fold these blanks two or more times so as to be one
half one third or less in length and then punch the hole for the hoop ends to pass
through. I use only one such latchet for each fastening.
I fold a blank, of say about 6 inches in length, into three thicknesses thus
trebling the cross sectional area. To fold the hoop 1 employ a crippling machine
which bends the blank into three sides of a square, one of the sides being however
slightly shorter than the opposite side, and I then bend the shorter side down upon
the centre part and press it tightly thereon, and thereupon bend down upon it and
press tightly thereon the longer side; the hole or slot of the required length and
width to receive the ends of the baling hoop is then punched through these
compacted three layers.
I may use only two layers, or more than three layers the crippling machine
being adapted to bend the hoop with the number of angles required, and the
number of subsequent operations for pressing the several parts together will be in
accordance therewith.
In some cases the end of the last folded part may be lapped round the end of
the article.
An Improved Manufacture of Bale Fastener.
I, DANIEL KEMP WEST of 23 St. Mary Axe in the City of London Engineer
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 :-
Heretofore the latchets employed for tying together the hoops used for baling
cotton and other bales have been made out of Hat iron or steel bars by shearing

page_text: Now
same into short lengths or blanks and punching slots therethrough.
according to my invention, I produce latchets of greatly increased strength as
compared, weight for weight, with the ordinary latchets and I moreover greatly
decrease the cost, as I am enabled to advantageously utilize in my improved
manufacture a material which has hitherto been a waste product. This material
consists in the waste ends of hoop iron or mild steel used as baling hoops.
Figure of the accompanying sheet of drawings represents a simple form of
bale fasteuer in end elevation, and
Figures 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are similar views of modified forms of bale fasteners,
Figure 7 is a plan, and
Figure 8 is a similar view of a modified form of bale fastener.
These waste ends or pieces which are of great tensile strength I cut to the
desired uniform length, that is to say about two, three or more times the length of
the finished article required, and I then fold these blanks two or more times so as
to be one half, one third or less in length and then punch the hole for the hoop
ends to pass through. I use only one such latchet for each fastening.
Referring to Figure 1 it will be seen that in this case the blank is twofold and
it may have one or two holes punched therein as shown in Figure 7 or Figure 8.
Referring to Figure 2 a blank is here shown folded into three thicknesses thus
trebling the cross sectional area.
Referring to Figure 3, a blank is shown of say about 6 inches in length, also
folded into three thicknesses thus trebling the cross sectional area. To fold the
hoop employ a crippling machine which bends the blank into three sides of a
square, one of the sides a being however slightly shorter than the opposite sides b
and c and I then bend the shorter side down upon the centre part 6 and press it
tightly thereon, and thereupon bend down upon it and press tightly thereon the
longer side c, the hole or slot d of the required length and width to receive the
ends of thling hoop is then punched through these compacted three layers as
shown in Figure 7 or there may be two holes d as shewn in Figure 8.
In some cases the end of the last folded part c may be lapped round the end of
the article as shown for instance in Figure 4.
I may use only two layers as shown in Figure 1 or more than three layers as
shown in Figures 5 and 6 the crippling machine being adapted to bend the hoop
with the number of angles required, and the number of subsequent operations for
pressing the several parts together will be in accordance therewith.
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. The utilization of waste pieces of bale hoops for the purpose described.
2. Bale fasteners having a punched slot, or punched slots, for the reception of the
ends of the hoops, and being composed of two or more layers of hoop iron or steel,
such layers being formed by lapping or folding a length of hoop into the number
of layers required substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 9th day of June 1896.
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.