IMPROVEMENTS IN TIES OR BUCKLES FOR USE IN BINDING COTTON, HAY, WOOL AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Ascherson of 34 Old Broad Street in the City of
London Merchant for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN TIES OR BUCKLES
FOR USE IN BINDING COTTON, HAY, WOOL AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
communicated to him from abroad by William M. Freeman of Meridian
Mississippi in the United States of America
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Ascherson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th June 1883.
EDWARD ASCHERSON of 34, Old Broad Street in the City of London Merchant.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TIES OR BUCKLES FOR USE IN BINDING COTTON, HAY WOOL
AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES (Communicated to me from Abroad by William
M. Freeman of Meridian Mississippi in the United States of America)
My invention relates to the construction of ties or buckles for use in tying bales
of cotton wool bay or other like purposes
with iron bands which have to be drawn tight and secured. For this purpose I
The bales after compression are bound
use a buckle of an ordinary rectangular shape and with a rectangular opening.
One side of the buckle which will in use be parallel to the bands is if necessary
strengthened with a strengthening rib and at one of the corners opposite to this
rib I cut the buckle through by a diagonal slot extending from the internal angle
to the external angle of the rim of the buckle.
In tying the bale the end of the band which has to be secured is bent at the
proper point and passed through the slot to its proper place within the buckle.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Ascherson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th December 1883.
EDWARD ASCHERSON of 34 Old Broad Street in the City of London Merchant
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TIES OR BUCKLES FOR USE IN BINDING COTTON, HAY, WOOL
AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES (Communicated to me from abroad by William
M. Freeman, of Meridian, Mississippi in the United States of America
"
My Invention relates to the construction of ties or buckles for use in tying bales
of cotton wool hay or other like purposes. The bales after compression are bound
with iron bands which have to be drawn tight and secured.
For this purpose I
use a buckle of an ordinary rectangular shape and with a rectangular opening.
One side of the buckle which will in use be parallel to the bands is if necessary
strengthened with a strengthening rib and at one of the corners opposite to this
rib I cut the buckle through by a diagonal slot extending from the internal angle
to the external angle of the rim of the buckle.
In tying the bale the end of the band which has to be secured is bent at the
proper point and passed through the slot to its proper place within the buckle.
But that the invention may be the more fully understood I will by the aid of
the accompanying drawing proceed more fully to describe the same.
Figure 1 represents one of the improved ties or buckles separately.
Figure 2 represents the tie or buckle with parts of the ends of a band attached
thereto.
In each of the Figures the same letters apply to corresponding parts a represents
the tie or buckle and b the slit therein at one of the corners of it. c indicates the
open part of the tie or buckle and a¹ the strengthening rib, d represents one end of
the part of the band and d¹ the other end of that band.
In using such ties or buckles the part d of the band is inserted through the open
part of it c-and it is there bent in the usual manner as indicated. The other
part d' of the band is then bent at the desired point and inserted through the slit b
thereby fastening the two ends of the band strongly and closely around the bale or
other matter to be held together.
The advantages gained by having the slit b at one of the corners running in or
about a diagonal direction are the facility of inserting the band without twisting
it or turning the tie or buckle during the insertion of that end of the band which
manipulation with buckles having the slit in or about the middle of the bar of it
is impossible to accomplish.
Another advantage is that it is almost impossible to dislodge or disengage bands
so held by rough handling such as bales are subject to during loading and unloading
them, as any vibration of the bands will cause their edges to abut against one or
the other side of the tie or buckle and finally the main advantage derivable from
the slit being formed in one of the corners of the tie or buckle is that by not
having to turn the tie or buckle or twist the band in connecting the ends of the
band I am enabled to take up almost all the slack and prevent undue expansion of
the bale upon its being released from the press.
Having thus described the invention as communicated to me I wish it to be
understood I am aware that ties or buckles with slits at the side in or about the

page_text: centre of one of the bars thereof have heretofore been used I therefore do not lay
claim to such generally But what I do claim on behalf of my correspondent is the
Improvements in ties or buckles for use in binding cotton hay wool and for other
like purposes substantially as described.
In witness whereof I the said Edward Ascherson have hereunto set my hand
and seal this sixth day of December One thousand eight hundred and eighty
three.
EDWARD ASCHERSON (L.S.)