Packages and Bundles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1888
Specification Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1888
Packages and Bundles.
I, CHARLES PECK HAWLEY of 510 West 153rd Street, New York City, in the
County and State of New York, United States of America, Inventor, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My Invention relates to a device in the form of a cleat for readily securing the
ligature of a bundle or package of papers or articles particularly such as require to
be frequently undone and done up again for reference or other purpose. One end of
the string, tape, or other ligature, is intended to be permanently attached to the cleat
which is then used for belaying the free end only.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings in which figure 1 is a
perspective view of one form of cleat. Figures 2, 3, and 4, are perspective views of
modifications of the same. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in all the figures.
The cleats are represented as made of wire, and of small size, but they may be
made either smaller or larger than shewn, and also increased in size. They may be
made of one, two, or more pieces, and either of fancy design or plain, and of any
suitable material. They are preferably made of a single piece of wire twisted and
bent or bent only to the shape shewn being so constructed that they are doubly strong
where the greatest strength is needed.
The string or tape A' is permanently attached by one end to the loop b, and after
being passed around the bundle or package, the other end is secured to the horns B B¹
by a hitch, as a sailor would belay a hawser.
In figure 1, the wire is bent somewhat in the form of a figure of 8, that is with
two end loops b and ¹ connected by a diagonal portion ². The two end members
of the wire are then twisted upon themselves once or twice at the middle, to form a
short shank a, and the ends B B¹ carried in opposite directions to form horns
approximately parallel with the looped body portion 6 61 62. A transverse bar D is
then attached to the under side of the body portion to prevent the cleat canting or

page_text: turning over in use. In this form of cleat, the ligature is preferably first passed
through the loop ¹, returned around the package, and then hitched over the
horns B B¹.
In figures 2 and 3, the wire after being bent to form the eye b is twisted upon
itself to form the body and then bent up and twisted to form the shank a, the
ends B B¹ extending in opposite directions, as in figure 1; The cleat in figure 2 is
provided with an attached transverse steadying bar D, as in figure 1. In figure 3
a circular or oval plate D¹ is substituted for a bar.
In figure 4, the loop b is made large so as to answer the purpose of the steadying
bar which is omitted, and the shank a is made shorter. In other respects it is
substantially similar to the form illustrated in figures 2 and 3.
The bar or plate D D' may however be omitted from all the forms shewn, or be
formed in the wire when twisted, without departing from the spirit of my invention,
and the arms or horns B B' may be bent at right angles to the body or at other
angles, if found desirable in practice.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. A cleat constructed of one piece of wire, consisting essentially of a body
portion, a transverse steadying portion integral with the body portion, an eye in
one end of the same, a shank and outwardly extending diverging arms or horns,
substantially as shewn and described.
2. In a cleat formed of a single piece of wire, the combination with the body
portion thereof having an eye at each end and a bar across the under side, of the
shank a and upwardly extending diverging arms or horns B B¹, substantially as
shewn and described.