IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL HOOPS FOR BALING COTTON AND OTHER MATERIALS, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE SACKINGS OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS, COTS, AND COUCHES
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Binney Gould and William
Levi Evans at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th April
1878.
JOHN BINNEY GOULD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Consul of the
United States of America at Birmingham, and WILLIAM LEVI EVANS, of Liverpool,
in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL HOOPS FOR
BALING COTTON AND OTHER MATERIALS, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES, WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE SACKINGS OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS,
COTS, AND COUCHES."
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Our improvements in metal hoops for baling cotton and other materials, and for
other like purposes, and for the sackings of metallic bedsteads, cots, and couches,
consist, first, in making those parts of the said metal hoops which are situated
around or in the vicinity of the holes or perforations which receive the heads and
shanks of the studs, or buttons, or rivets, by which the ends of the hoops are fastened
together, of a thickness or strength greater than that of the body of the hoops for
the purpose of giving additional strength at and near the said holes or perforations,
and thereby diminishing the risk of fracture or rupture of the hoops at those parts
by the strain or tension of the studs, buttons, or rivets upon them. This object wo
effect in either of the following or analagous ways. We make across one face of
the metal hoop and adjacent to the hole or perforation which is to receive the
fastening stud, button, or rivet, a raised abutment or bar, the said abutment or bar
being of a thickness of metal greater than that of the body of the hoop. Or a
raised diagonal abutment or bar, or two raised diagonal abutments or bars crossing
one another may be made on the face of the hoop in place of the cross abutments
or bars described, the said diagonal abutment or abutments enclosing portions of
the holes or perforations in the hoop; or the raised part or parts of additional
thickness in the hoops may be made to surround, or partly surround, and have the
same outline as the holes or perforations.
The raised parts of the hoops may either be confined to the ends of the hoops at
which they are to be connected together, or they may be continued along the whole
length of the hoop. In the latter case the hoops may be cut into such lengths as
may be required.

page_text: The hoops, with the raised parts or parts of additional thickness are made by
rolling, the acting faces of the rolls employed having a shape the counterpart of
that of the hoops to be rolled.
Or instead of giving additional strength to the hoop where the slots, perforations,
or holes are to be made by the rolling process as described, the same result may be
obtained by turning down and rivetting the ends of the hoops, thereby doubling
the thickness of metal at those parts, but we prefer the methods herein-before
described.
Or instead of giving the desired strength at the parts where the holes are made
by means of the various methods described of leaving or making the metal thicker
at those parts, the same result may be obtained by making the strip or hoop wider
at the parts where holes are to be made. In this case the strip or hoop is of the
samo thickness throughout, the additional width at and near the holes compen-
sating for the portions cut away in making the holes.
Our Invention consists further in making the raised parts of the hoop around
the slots or rivet holes inclined. By this arrangement the head of the stud or rivet
sliding up to the thickest part around the slot or hole will bring the surfaces of the
two ends of the hoop closely together.
Our Invention consists further in the following method of locking or fixing the
fastening studs in one end of the metallic hoop in order to prevent their loss in
transportation, or their separation from the hoop:-We effect this by making a cir-
cular or other shaped hole or perforation in the hoop for the neck of the stud to
work in; and for the purpose of permitting the head of the stud to pass through
the hoop we cut near and opening into the said holo or perforation a slit or slits,
and we raise the slit part or parts out of the plane of the hoop, and thereby form a
raised lip or lips, the space between the said raised lip and the hoop, or between
the two lips, being sufficiently large for the passage through it of the head of the
stud. After the studs have been passed into the holes or perforations the raised lip
or lips is or are pressed or hammered down into the same plane as that of the hoop,
when the studs are fixed very securely in the hoop. The shape of the slit part or
parts for forming the raised lip or lips may be varied.
Those parts of the hoops which are to be cut away to form the said holes or per-
forations and slits, are rolled, by preference, of the same thickness as or of less
thickness than the body of the hoops.
We have described our Invention as applied to hoops for baling cotton, but the
application of our Invention to other like purposes and to the sackings of metallic
bedsteads, cots, and couches, differs in no essential respect from its application, as
herein described, to baling cotton.
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