IMPROVE- MENTS IN HOOPS FOR SECURING BALES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Betts Bradshaw, of Clough Hill-House,
Rotherham, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HOOPS FOR SECURING BALES."
Scaled the 21st July 1874, and dated the 4th April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION-left by the said Joseph Betts Bradshaw
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 4th April 1874.
I, JOSEPH BETTS BRADSHAW, of Clough Hill House, Rotherham, in
the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOOPS FOR SECURING BALES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object to improve hoops used for securing
bales. For this purpose I form the hoop in two halves or parts, and in
the end of each I form a bend, thus U When a bale has been
formed, and the two halves of the hoop have been placed around it, the
bends at the ends of one half are made to lic within the bends at the

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ends of the other half, and over the top of the outermost of the bends
a slotted plate is then placed, the slot being just large enough for the
bend to rise up through it. The two ends of the plate arc cach curved
downwards thus
in the opposite direction to the bends in
the half hoops, and a metal key or pin is then slipped through between
the bends in the half hoops and the bend of the slotted plate, by which
means all the parts are securely tied together into one hoop.
The above forms a simple and efficient fastening for securing hoops
without punching or cutting away any of the metal at their ends.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Joseph Betts Bradshaw in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPHI
BETTS BRADSHAW, of Clough Hill House, Rotherham, in the County of
York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Joseph Betts Bradshaw, Her special license
that I, the said Joseph Betts Bradshaw, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Betts Bradshaw, 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, usc, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HOOPS FOR SECURING BALES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Joseph Betts Bradshaw, 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 Inven-
tion, 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
: :
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page_text: months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Betts Bradshaw, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the samé
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
.
This Invention has for its object to improve hoops used for securing
bales. For this purpose I form the hoop in two halves or parts, and in
the end of cach I form a bend, thus
When a bale has
been formed, and the two halves of the hoop have been placed around
it, the bends at the ends of one half are made to lie within the bends at
the ends of the other half, and over the top of the outermost of the
bends à slotted plate is then placed, the slot being just large enough
for the bend to rise up through it. The two ends of the plate áre
each curved downwards thus
in the opposite direction
to the bends in the half hoops, and a metal key or pin is then slipped
through between the bends in the half hoops and the bend of the
slotted plate, by which means all the parts are securely tied together into

page_text: Figures 5 shew another joint and separate parts thereof. This joint
differs only in form from that shewn in Figures 1 and 2.
Figures 6 shew another joint, to which the same remark applies.
Figures 7 shew a similar joint, differing in that the ends of the hoop
are not previously stamped, but are bent by the act of driving the key. 5
The buckle piece in this case is in malleable cast iron, the ends of the
hoop are threaded through it.
Figures 8 shew another form of a joint of this construction.
Sometimes I drive the key between the two ends of the hoop. Figures 9
shew a joint in which this is the case. The buckle piece is a slotted 1
tube, and the key separates the ends of the hoops within the tube.
.I claim the construction and arrangement of hoop for securing bales;
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Betts Bradshaw, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this First day of October, in the 1
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
J. B. BRADSHAW. (L.S.)