AN IMPROVED BALE TIE."
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED BALE TIE."-A communication from
abroad by Sidney. Brett, of the City and State of New York, United
States of America.
Sealed the 29th September 1871, and dated the 15th August 1871.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 15th August 1871, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
BALE TIB," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for
the same and have made solemn Declaration that it has been commu-

page_text: nicated to me from abroad by Sidney Brett, of the City and State of
New York, United States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that 'I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand and
seal fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, 5
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing forming
a part of this Specification :-
This Invention relates to ties for bales of cotton, hay, and other
material, and consists in a metallic or wire tie of unbroken wire, at one 1
of whose ends I form an eye, and at the other an open hook, the said
eye and hook are interlocked by passing the hook backward through
the eye until the limb of the hook has passed beyond the eye and then
bringing the limb of the hook around the shank of the eye and springing
or passing it forward into the eye so as to interlock the hook and eye 1
together, the bight of the hook surrounding the back of the strands
which form the eye, and the eye being arranged over the limb and body

page_text: compression, the expansion of the bale operates to draw the hook and
eye out one upon the other until they are brought to the condition
represented in Figure 3, or nearly so, the hook being drawn through
the eye so that the hook and eye are closely confined to each other,
and there is no danger of their becoming disengaged.
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In applying the tie to a bale or other article the hook and eye ends
are slightly bent up so that the hook can enter the eye with facility.
In the modified form shown in Figures 4 and 5 the eye is bent up, so
that when the two ends of the tie are brought together, the hook can
be passed into the upturned eye with facility without bending up the
hook also.
This Invention preserves the wire in its strength and presents double
strands at the parts which are interlocked.
.
Having thus fully described the said Invention, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I claim, the improved bale tie herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
E. O. JACKSON.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE. (L.S.)