IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOP IRON FASTENINGS FOR BALES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Clifton Carver, of the City of Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Engincer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN HOOP IRON FASTENINGS FOR BALES."-A communication from abroad
by Edmund Drinkwater Carver and George Ashcroft, both of Alex-
andria, Egypt.
Sealed the 24th December 1867, and dated the 5th July 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Clifton Carver
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents; with his Petition, on the
5th July 1867.
I, HENRY CLIFTON CARVER, of the City of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOP IRON FASTENINGS FOR BALES," a communication
from abroad by Edmund Drinkwater Carver and George Ashcroft, both of
Alexandria, Egypt, to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in cutting the hoop iron to the length required to
pass round the bale, and in doubling up each end, and in securing one doubled
end by a rivet and making a hole and short slot in it, and in rivetting a button
or stud in the other doubled end, which will fit the said hole and slot. Hoop

page_text: iron fastenings constructed in this manner are passed round the bale, and
when it is pressed the button in one doubled end is passed through the hole in
the other doubled end of the hoop iron, and when the pressure is removed the
sbank part of the bottom or stud will enter the slot part of the hole, and
thus the two ends of the hoop iron will be securely fastened. The doubling
up of the ends of the hoop iron gives increased strength to make up for
the loss of strength where the holes are cut, and also gives more substance of
metal in which to secure the rivet, stud, or button.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Clifton Carver in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
CLIFTON CARVER, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of July in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Clifton Carver, Her special license that I, the said Henry Clifton
Carver, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Henry Clifton Carver, 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 Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN HOOP IRON FASTENINGS FOR BALES," a communication from
Edmund Drinkwater Carver and George Ashcroft, both of Alexandria,
Egypt, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Clifton
Carver, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Henry Clifton Carver, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompaning Drawings (that is to say):-
The Invention consists in cutting the hoop iron to the length required to
pass round the bale, and in doubling up each end, and in securing one doubled
end by a rivet and making a hole and short slot in it, and in rivetting a button
or stud in the other doubled end, which will fit the said hole and slot. Hoop
iron fastenings constructed in this manner are passed round the bale, and
when it is pressed the button in one doubled end is passed through the hole
in the other doubled end of the hoop iron, and when the pressure is removed
the shank part of the button or stud will enter the slot part of the hole, and
thus the two ends of the hoop iron will be securely fastened. The doubling
up of the ends of the hoop iron gives increased strength to make up for the
loss of strength where the holes are cut; and also gives more substance of
metal in which to secure the rivet stud or button.
Figure 1 shows a flat view, and Figure 2 an edge view of two ends of
one hoop or band detached; and Figure S shows a flat view, Figure 4 an
edge, and Figure 5 a longitudinal section of the two ends of one hoop or band
when connected. It will be seen that one end (a) is doubled, as shown, and
secured by a rivet (a¹), and that a hole (a) is formed in this end of the
shape shown. The other end (b) of the hoop or band is doubled and a stud
or button (1) is rivetted in it, as shown.
I have now particularly described the nature of the Invention communicated
to me and the mode of carrying it into effect, and claim the mode of con-
structing fastenings for bales by doubling up the ends and securing them as
herein-before described and illustrated by the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Clifton Carver, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
HY. C. CARVER. (L.S.)