Improvements in the Supporting Bands of Compressed Bales.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 29th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Supporting Bands of Compressed Bales.
I, TOM SMITH, of 122, Wolfe Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancashire, Dock Labourer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the fastening of metallic bands for
the binding of bales of compressed goods, and consists of the formation of a
triangular slot in the one end and a notched head upon the opposite end of the
said band, the said notched head being easily passed through and connected to
the said slot when the band has been passed around the compressed bale, the
said ends retaining their connection without rivet or buckle when the band
becomes tightened by the removal of the compressive force upon the bale.
Dated this 7th day of November 1800
Improvements in the Supporting Bands of Compressed Bales.
I, TOM SMITH, of 122, Wolfe Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, in Lancashire,
Dock Labourer, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in the fastening of metallic bands for
the binding of bales of compressed goods, and consists of the formation of a
triangular slot in the one end and a notched head upon the opposite end of the
said band, the said notched head being easily passed through and connected to
the said slot when the band has been passed around the compressed bale, the
said ends retaining their connection without rivet or buckle when the band
becomes tightened by the removal of the compressive force upon the bale.
With a view to making my invention fully understood reference is hereinafter
made to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which:
Figs. 1 and 2 are plan views of the female and male ends respectively of
my said improved hand, Fig. 3 being a reduced view illustrating how the said
two ends are connected with each other around a bale while under the com-
pressive force.
Figs. 4 and 5 are views of duplicate pieces which I may employ for rivetting
upon or otherwise connecting to the male and female ends, Figs. 1 and 2, as a
means for strengthening the same.

page_text: In carrying my invention into effect I cut or otherwise produce in the one
or female end A of the iron, steel, or other metallic band to be used, a triangular
Blot B, while upon the opposite end C tapered portions of the band are removed
at D D, to form a head E, which is capable of being passed edgewise through
the slot B in A, the narrowest portion of C at D D being only slightly less in
width than the broadest end of the slot B.
In practice, the band would be passed around the bale while under compression,
when the head E would be twisted slightly and passed through the slot B, when
the shouldered end D D of C would occupy the broadest end of the slot B, the
head E serving to retain A and C so connected, as at Fig. 3, when the com-
pressive force upon the bale is removed and the said band is thereby drawn
taut, thus effecting the perfect attachment of the two ends of the band more
quickly than hitherto, and without the use of rivets or buckles for that purpose.
I may find it convenient to provide auxiliary strengthening pieces of metallic
band such as F and G Figs. 4 and 5, these being in size and configuration exactly
like the ends of A and C Figs. 1 and 2, the one I being provided with a slot B³,
while the other has a head E', the said pieces serving to strengthen the ends A
and C when brazed or rivetted thereunto, preferably rivetted, for which purpose
holes a may be formed in the ends A and C coinciding with holes in the
auxiliary pieces F G for the reception of rivets for connecting F to A and G to C
for the purposes stated.
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) The improved self fastening supporting-bands for compressed bales, sub-
stantially as herein described and shewn.
(2) The improved self fastening supporting-band for compressed bales, having
in one end a triangular slot B and upon the other a head E adapted to engage
with the said slot, for connecting the ends of the said band without rivets or
other means, and with or without auxiliary strengthening pieces such as F and G
substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 29th day of December 1899.