IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING TOGETHER THE ENDS OF IRON OR OTHER METAL BANDS USED IN BALING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER BALE GOODS PACKED UNDER PRESSURE
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Lampson, of 64, Queen Street, Cheapside,
in the City of London, Merchant, for- the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CONNECTING TOGETHER THE ENDS OF IRON OR OTHER METAL BANDS USED IN
BALING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER BALE GOODS PACKED UNDER PRESSURE."
Sealed the 26th March 1867, and dated the 15th November 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Lampson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
November 1866.
I, HENRY LAMPSON, of 64, Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CONNECTING TOGETHER THE ENDS OF IRON OR OTHER METAL BANDS USED IN
BALING COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER BALE GOODS PACKED UNDER PRESSURE," to be as
follows:-
The object of the improvements is to obtain a simple and efficient connection
for the ends of iron or other metal bands used in baling cotton, wool, and
other bale goods packed under pressure. For this purpose each metal band
according to the improvements is provided with two flat metal loops similar
in form to the "sliding loops" of leather used with leather straps. One end
of the band is passed through one of these loops and turned back against
itself on the inside thereof or towards that surface to be next the bale for some

page_text: distance, say about four inches; this part may also be rivetted when the end
turned back may be shorter. The other loop is passed over the other end of
the band, and when the band is applied to a bale this other end is passed and
drawn tightly through the first loop and turned short back again over it and
then through the second loop which acts as a capping and keeps the end in
place; the ends of the band will thus be securely connected together. Metal
bands thus arranged may be repeatedly used so long as each successive use is
in binding round a smaller surface.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Lampson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th May 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
LAMPSON, of 64, Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Lampson, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Lampson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I; the said Henry
Lampson, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN COK-
NECTING TOGETHER THE ENDS OF IRON OR OTHER METAL BANDS USED IN BALING
COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER BALE GOODS PACKED UNDER PRESSURE," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Lampson, 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 Henry Lampson, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
The object of the improvements is to obtain a simple and efficient connection
for the ends of iron or other metal bands used in,baling.cotton, wool, and
other bale goods packed under pressure... For this purpose each: metal band
according to the improvements is provided with two. flat metal. loops similar
in form to the "sliding loops" of leather used with leather straps. One end
of the band is passed through one of these loops and turned back against
itself on the inside thereof, or towards that surface to be next the bale for some
distance, say about four inches. The other loop is passed over the other end
of the band, and when the band is applied to a bale this other end is passed
and drawn through the first loop and turned short back again over it when
the second loop is slipped over this end, and thus acts as a capping and keeps
this end in place; the ends of the band will thus be securely connected
together.
But that the Invention may be fully understood I will, by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, proceed to describe means pursued by me in carrying

page_text: claim is, the mode of connecting the ends of metal bands used in baling cotton,
wool, and other bale goods, packed under pressure, by the aid of loops applied
in manner substantially as explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Lampson; have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.