AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR BALING BANDS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT, to Alfred Vincent. Newton, of the Office, for Patents,
66, Chancery. Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughts-,
man, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR BALING BANDS."
- A communication from abroad by Robert Dillon, of the City of New
York, in the United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the, Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the..
22nd October 1866.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane;
3 in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention "for "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR BALING
BANDS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved mode of securing metal bands or
straps on cotton and other bales. The ends of the band are connected by a
loop and pin; one end of the band-being folded over the neck-of-the loop a
the other folded over the pin which passes through the loop. The bent-over

page_text: ends lie next the bale, so that the effect of the strain of expansion when
fastened is to draw them closer and secure them firmly. The loop or tie is
made of a piece of sheet iron cut in form of a parallelogram about twice
as broad and three times as long as the breadth of the band to be secured.
An opening is cut out of the middle of this iron plate, also in the form of a
parallelogram, and a trifle broader than the band in order to receive it easily.
The iron plate is then bent in the middle transversely to form an independent
loop; two eyes are thus formed to receive a pin, over which one end of the
band is lapped, while the other is lapped over the flat part of the tie.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents; 66; Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of October, 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 Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, 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..
"AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR BALING BANDS," being a communication from
abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Vincent
Newton, 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. Alfred, Vincent Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of, the said. Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to an improved mode of securing metal bands or
straps on cotton and other bales.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 is a plain or flat side view of a hoop
tie or independent loop fastening, constructed according to the present.
Invention and connected with one end of a baling hoop; Fig. 2 is a similar
view of the same when connected with both ends of a baling hoop; Fig. 8 is
a flat view of the independent loop fastening detached; Fig. 4 is a plan of
the same before it is bent or folded into a loop; and Fig. 5 is a transverse
section taken in the plane of the line x, x, Fig. 8, showing the loop. and fold
edgewise. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
By reference to these Figures it will be seen that the ends of the band are
connected by a loop and pin, one end of the band being folded over the neck
of the loop, and the other folded over the pin which passes through the loop.
The bent-over ends lie next the bale, so that the effect of the strain of
expansion of the bale when the bands are fastened is to draw the bent-over
ends closer and secure them firmly.
In Fig. 1 A represents one end of an iron baling band or strap of hoop iron
having one end bent back upon itself to form a loop a, which is folded over
the neck or end of an independent loop B. The independent loop B is made
of a piece of sheet iron cut in form of a parallelogram about twice as broad
and three times as long as the breadth of the band A to be secured, as shown
in plan (before the loop is bent) by Fig. 4. An opening C is cut out of the
middle of the iron plate, also in the form of a parallelogram as shewn in the
same Figure, and a trifle broader than the band, in order to receive it easily,
as shewn in Figures 1 and 2. The iron plate is then bent in the middle
transversely to form an independent loop B, as shewn in Figures 8 and 5.
The independent loop B having been thus formed and connected with one end
of a baling band of hoop iron, as described above and shewn in Fig. 1, the
band is passed around a bale, and the opposite or free end is brought up to
the loop and cut off at a point to allow it to be bent back upon itself to form
a loop a', which loop a' is placed within the opening C, and connected with
the loop B by running a pin 6 through them as shown by Fig. 2. This
connection makes the tie of a baling band on a bale complete.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of An Improved
Fastening for Baling Bands," as communicated to me by my foreign corre-
spondent, and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish

page_text: it to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim
the means above described for securing the ends of baling bands.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twentieth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.S.)