IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE TIES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Cole Lowber, of the Firm of Laughland
and Company, of Church Street, Warrington, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE TIES FOR
Sealed the 1st November 1870, and dated the 20th May 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Cole Lowber
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th May 1870.
I, DANIEL COLE LOWBER, of the Firm of Laughland and Company,
of Church Street, Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE
TIES FOR SECURING BALES OF HAY, COTTON, AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE," to be as
follows:-
My said Invention relates to a modification in the wire tie for
securing bales of cotton, hay, and other merchandize, described in the
Specification of an Invention for which Letters Patent have been

page_text: granted to me, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of April in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, No. 1346.
The tie described in the said former Specification has a loop at one
end of the wire which encircles the bale, and a hook on the other end
of the said wire, the tire being secured upon the bale by inserting the
hook in the loop.
According to my present Invention I use instead of the aforesaid
hook a T-piece or cross bar at one end of the tie. This T-piece is
preferably formed by first making a loop at the end of the wire, the
two parts of which are twisted together, and then flattening or com-
pressing the loop in such a manner that its two sides are brought
together parallel with each other at a right angle or transversely to the
end of the tie.
Instead of forming the T-piece by doubling and twisting the end of
the tie as above described, I may form it of a separate small bar or
piece of wire secured to the tie by coiling the wire round it, or by other
suitable means.
The precise form of the loop at the other end of the tie is not very
material so long as it will admit the T-piece readily and hold it
securely. I prefer, however, that the said loop should be formed with
a large and small portion, the diameter of the large portion being
slightly greater than the length of the T-piece, while the small part
which extends outwardly from the large portion and into which the
T end of the wire is drawn by the expansion of the bale prevents the
escape of the said T-piece from the loop when the tic has been secured
upon the bale.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Daniel Cole Lowber in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th November 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL 30
COLE LOWBER, of the Firm of Laughland and Company, of Church
Street, Warrington, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting,
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of May in the year

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Daniel Cole Lowber, Her special licence,
that I, the said Daniel Cole Lowber, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel Cole Lowber, my 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 Ircland, the
Channel Islands and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WIRE TIES FOR SECURING BALES OF HAY, COTTON, AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Daniel Cole
Lowber, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing.
under my, or their, or one of their hands 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 Daniel Cole Lowber, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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
Drawing forming a part of this Specification :-
My said Invention relates to a modification in the wire tie for
securing bales of cotton, hay, and other merchandize, described in the
Specification of an Invention for which Letters Patent have been
granted to me, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of April in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, No. 1346.
The tie described in the said former Specification has a loop at one
end of the wire which encircles the bale, and a hook on the other end
of the said wire, the tie being secured upon the bale by inserting the
hook in the loop.
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.
According to my present Invention I use instead of the aforesaid
hook a T-piece or cross bar at one end of the tie. This T-piece is
preferably formed by first making a loop by doubling and twisting the
end of the wire and then flattening or compressing the loop in such a

page_text: end a T-piece or cross bar, formed substantially as specified, which
T-piece may be readily passed through the large portion of the said loop,
but which when the tie is secured around a bale will be drawn down into
the small portion of the loop and securely held therein.