IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BINDING AND FASTENING BALES AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Riddle, of 4, Stonefield Terrace, Liverpool
Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR BINDING AND FASTENING BALES AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Scaled the 14th August 1858, and dated the 17th February 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Riddle at the
Office of the Commissioners of. Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th
February 1858..
I, WILLIAM RIDDLE, of 4, Stonefield Terrace, Liverpool Road, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BINDING AND FASTENING BALES AND OTHER
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in forming each metal or other band with hooks or
bent ends, and retaining such ends when hooped together by a ring or
slide. In using such apparatus for binding or packing bales of goods or of
raw material when under pressure, a band or hoop is passed round a bale,
and the two ends are hooked together; after which a slide or flat ring is slid
over the hooked parts. The ring may be made fast by turning the edges
with a hammer or otherwise. When iron is used for such purposes the
rust is apt to spoil cotton in bales and other articles; for this reason. I. cause
the iron bands, when desired, to be coated with tin or other suitable material,
(preferring tin), for preserving the iron as much as possible from rust. If
tin is used the bands after being scoured or otherwise cleansed are passed
through a bath of tin, and then through a hempen or spongy fabric or brush,
or other contrivance, to wipe or scrape off superfluous metal.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Riddle in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
August 1858..
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
RIDDLE, of 4, Stonefield Terrace, Liverpool Road, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Riddle, Her special licence that I, the said William Riddle,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Riddle, 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, exercisc,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPA-
RATUS FOR BINDING AND FASTENING BALES AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William Riddle, 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 William Riddle, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in forming each metal or other band with hooks or
bent ends, and retaining such ends when hooked together by a ring or slide.
In using such apparatus for binding or packing bales of goods or of raw
material when under pressure, a band or hoop is passed round a bale and the
two ends are hooked together, after which a slide or flat ring is slid over the
hooked parts. The ring may be made fast by turning the edges with a
hammer or otherwise. When iron is used for such purposes the rust is apt to
spoil cotton in bales and other articles; for this reason I cause the iron bands,
when desired, to be coated with tin or other suitable material (preferring tin), for
preserving the iron as much as possible from rust. If tin is used, the bands,

page_text: after being scoured or otherwise cleansed, are passed through a bath of tin and
then through a hempen or spongy fabric or brush, or other contrivance, which
is by preference immersed in boiling oil to wipe or scrape off superfluous
metal.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
A, B, represent side views of the ends of hoop iron or other bands proposed
to be fastened according to my Invention, bent so as to hook together or pass
on sideways; C is a ring or flat loop made to slide over the ends A, B, when
they are hooked together, and constructed of charcoal iron folded and brazed,
lengths of flat tubing cut up, or other suitable material. In order to prevent
this ring from slipping off after fastening, a portion of one end of each side of
the ring is carried on or extended, as at a, a'; by turning down these parts
a, a', the ring will remain securely in its place.
In place of forming the ends of the hoop iron or other bands in the manner
as shown at A and B, in some cases I form them as is shown at D and E.
In
binding and fastening bales and some other articles with apparatus arranged
according to my Invention, I first cut the hoop iron or other band to the
length required, and double down its end in the manner shewn; the bale to
be bound and fastened is then compressed by hydraulic or other pressure as
heretofore, and the hoop iron or other band is placed round it, and the ends
thereof are hooked together; the ring c, which previously had been placed
on the band, is lastly slipped over the joint and its end a¹ turned down by a
hammer or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Riddle, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
WILLIAM RIDDLE. (L.S.)