CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SECURING THE EXTREMITIES OF BANDS OR HOOPS USED IN PACKING BALES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED FOR SUCH PURPOSE
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William John Dorning, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Engineer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE METHOD OF SECURING THE EXTREMITIES OF BANDS OR HOOPS USED IN
PACKING BALES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED FOR SUCH PURPOSE."- A com-
munication from abroad by Edward Taylor Bellhouse, residing in
Egypt.
Sealed the 22nd August 1865, and dated the 9th March 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William John Dorning
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th March 1865.
I, WILLIAM JOHN DORNING, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention fór "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SECURING THE EXTREMITIES OF BANDS OR HOOPS
USED IN PACKING BALES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED FOR SUCH PURPOSE," (a cou-
munication to me from abroad by Edward Taylor Bellhouse, residing in
Egypt,) to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to securing the ends of the metallic bands or hoops
used to confine bales of goods, cotton, and other merchandize which has
hitherto been effected principally by rivetting.
The improvements consist in bending the two ends of the band'into the form
of hooks thus, so that when brought together they shall clasp into each
other, a flat ferrule or band to confine and cover the joint is then slipped

page_text: over the said clasped ends which completes the fastening, and prevents it
opening when the bale is released from the press. Or each end of the band
may have its surface corrugated to a certain distance so that when brought
together the corrugations of each end will fit into each other, and the flat
ferrule or cross band being slipped over them will prevent them from parting
from each other, and will form the fastening of the extremities of the bands.
When it is desired to release the bale from the bands it will be simply neces-
sary to slip the flat ferrule or cross band off the joint, and the pressure of
the bale will force open the ends of the hoops.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William John Dorning in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JOHN DORNING, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William John Dorning, Her special license that I, the said William John
Dorning, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William John Dorning, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF SECURING THE EXTREMITIES OF BANDS OR HOOPS
USED IN PACKING BALES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED FOR SUCH PURPOSE," a com-
munication to me from abroad by Edward Tayler Bellhouse, residing in
Egypt, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William John
Dorning, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William John Dorning, 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, and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
The Invention relates to securing the ends of the metallic bands or hoops
used to confine bales of goods, cotton, or other merchandize which has hitherto
been effected principally by rivetting.
The improvements consist in binding the two ends of the bands into the
form of hooks, so that when brought together they shall clasp into each
other, a flat ferrule or band to confine and cover the joint is then slipped
over the said clasped ends which completes the fastening, and prevents it
opening when the bale is released from the press. Or each end of the band
may have its surface corrugated to a certain distance, so that when brought
together the corrugations of each end will fit into each other, and the flat
ferrule or cross band being slipped over them will prevent them from parting
from each other, and will form the fastening of the extremities of the bands.
When it is desired to release the bale from the bands it will be simply neces-
sary to slip the flat ferrule or cross band off the joint, the pressure of the bale
will force open the ends of the hooks.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawings made about the full
size.
Fig. 1 represents a side view of the clasped ends of the hoops or binding
band, shewing them embraced by the ferrule or strap which secures and
retains them in position; Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the same;
and Fig. 3 represents another arrangement for securing the ends of the hoop
by corrugations embraced by a ferrule or strap similar to that shewn in Fig. 1.
In Figs. 1 and 2, a, a, are the two ends of a hoop or band employed for
binding bales of cotton, or other materials or fabrics, the extremities of which
are bent or shaped in the form of hooks, and are made to clasp each other
as shewn when the bale is under pressure, in which state the ferrule or band 6
is slipped over and caused to embrace the ends, thereby firmly locking the
extremities of the binding bands, and preventing any expansion when the
pressure is removed from the bale. The ends of the binding hoop in Fig. 3
are shewn corrugated, and fitting into each other, the ferrule b being slipped
over and caused to embrace such corrugation which has the effect of locking
the ends similar to the arrangement shewn in Fig. 1.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly

page_text: understood that I claim the method of securing the ends of metallic bands or
hoops as herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings
attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said -William John Dorning, have hereunto
- set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
attached.
In witness whereof, I, the said -William John Dorning, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
A
WILLIAM JOHN DORNING. (L.S.)