IMPROVEMENTS IN BALE BANDS OR TIES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALE BANDS OR TIES."-A
communication from abroad by Richard Terrell, of New Orleans,
United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th December 1874.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,.
Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BALE BANDS OR TIES,"
a communication, to be as follows:-
These improvements relate to the construction of metal bale bands or
ties, to which I apply the term "quick and easy," and which are con-
structed as follows:-Upon one end of a metal band I form a series of

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notches, and upon the opposite end of the said band a succession of
projecting hooks, all at equal distances apart in order that the hooks on
the one end may engage the edges of the notches on the opposite end,
and thus secure the band upon the bale or other package to which it
may be applied.
In the practice of this Invention it may be deemed necessary to fold
the extreme ends of the bands, thereby increasing the thickness and con-
sequently the strength of the same.
In order to prevent unfastening of the ends through rough handling,
to which the bale may be subjected, I construct in the centre of the
notched end of the band a succession of projecting guards or shields
under which the extreme end of the hook portion of the band rests.
Should it be found preferable in practice to place the bands on the
bale with the said hooks outward, the extreme end of the notched portion
of the same can be cut to a point and bent under to hook into a depression
formed in the other end of the band by pressing the same in an opposite
direction to that of the hooks.
I modify the said Invention as follows, that is to say, the first part of.
the tie may be constructed at the factory by first bending or folding
back upon itself about five inches of the extreme end of the band. This
folded end is next bent over and at a right angle to the band, after which
it is folded back, under, and again over the band.
The operation of securing the ends together is as follows:-After the
band has been placed around the bale the straight end of the same is.
folded into an oblate hook, and secured to the upper fold on the opposite !
end of the band by slipping the said hook edgewise over the same. The
outer end of the upper fold or band seat may be bent back.
It will readily be understood from the above description that this
improved fastening will hold with equal tenacity whether the same be
secured with the free end of the oblate hook nearest the cotton or on the
outside of the band.
In order that the free end of the band may be firmly seated the upper
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of the tie should be recessed

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SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said William' Robert
Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th July 1875.
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 Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year. of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special
licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert
Lake, 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 tèrm 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 "Iμ-
PROVEMENTS IN BALE BANDS OR TIES," a communication to me from abroad
by Richard Terrell, of New Orleans, United States of America, upoň
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Robert Lake,
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 seven calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
:
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, dó 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, reference being had to the accom,
panying Drawing forming a part of this Specification :—
These improvements relate to the construction of metal bale bands or
ties, to which I apply the term "quick and easy," and which are
constructed as herein after described.

page_text: In the accompanying Drawing, Figure 1 is a view of the two opposite
ends of a metallic band before locking them together according to this
Invention; Figure 2 shows the same when locked together in the actual
practice of the said Invention; and Figure 3 shows a slight modification
of the same.
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In the practice of this Invention it may be deemed necessary to fold
the extreme ends of the bands, thereby increasing the thickness, and
consequently the strength of the same. Upon one end of the band I
construct a series of notches a, a', a", and upon the opposite end of the
said band, a succession of projecting hooks b, 61, 6¹¹, all at equal 10
distances apart in order that the hooks on the one end may engage the
edges of the notches on the opposite end, and thus secure the band upon
the bale or other package to which it may be applied.
In order to prevent unfastening of the ends through rough handling,
to which the bale may be subjected, I construct in the centre of the 18
notched end of the band a succession of projecting guards or shields
c, d, under which the extreme end of the hook portion of the band
rests.
Should it be found preferable in practice to place the bands on the
bale with the hooks b outward, the extreme ends of the notched portion 20
of the same may be cut to a point and bent under to hook into a
depression formed in the other end of the band by pressing the same as
at d, in an opposite direction to that of the hooks.
T
I modify the said Invention, as shewn in Figures 4 to 9, by folding
one end of a bale band in order that the opposite end may be quickly 2
and securely fastened to the same. Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7, represent the
folds necessary to form the fastening at one end of the band.
Figures 8 and 9 show a fastening of slightly different form with the
opposite end of the band secured thereto.
.
The first part of the tie, Figure 7, may be constructed at the factory 3
by first bending or folding back upon itself about five inches of the
extreme end of the band as shown in Figure 4. This folded end is next
bent over,
and at a right angle to the band as in Figure 5, after which it
is folded back under the band as in Figure 6, and again over the band as
shown in Figure 7.
The operation of securing the ends together is as follows:-After the
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page_text: band has been placed around the bale, the straight end d of the same is
folded into a oblate hook A, and secured to the upper fold e on the
opposite end of the band by slipping the said hook edgewise over the same.
The outer end of the upper fold or band seat e, may be bent back as
shown in Figures 8 and 9.
It will be readily understood from the above description and the
.Drawing, that this improved fastening will hold with equal tenacity
whether the same be secured with the free end of the oblate hook nearest
the cotton or on the outside of the band.
In order that the free end of the band may be more firmly seated,
the upper fold e of the tie should be recessed as shown in Figures 7
and 9.
I further modify the said Invention as illustrated in Figures 10, 11,
and 12-Figure 10 is a perspective view; Figure 11 a longitudinal
section;
and Figure 12 a side view.
The fastening is formed through the interposition of a "tie plate" or
"buckle" f, provided upon its lower side with two hooks 6 designed to
engage in slots g, constructed in a central line upon one end of a bale
band. The said tie plate is first secured to the opposite end of said
band as shown. The hooks form the means for completing the fastening
in both cases.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I claim,—
First. The notches, hooks, and projecting guards or shields formed at
the edges and centre of the opposite sections of a metallic band, the whole
being constructed, combined, and arranged to provide means for fastening
and protecting the ends of said band as above described.
Second. A cotton tie fastening for metallic bands formed by turning
one end of the band back parallel with itself, so as to provide a double
thickness of material, and then folding or bending the same in succession
as shown in Figures 5, 6, 7, thereby forming a loop whose bearing
surface is on a line, and at right angles with the main section of the.
body of the band, and the oblate hook A on the opposite end of the
band, the whole being combined and arranged to secure the band around
the bale as above described.

page_text: Third. The modification of the said Invention, in which the said
projecting hooks, whereby the fastening of the band upon the bale is
accomplished are formed upon the tie plate as shewn in Figures 10, 11,
and 12, of the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
.
Witness,
JAS. EDWARDS,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
W. ROBT. LAKE. (L.8.)