IMPROVEMENTS IN BUCKLES OR BALE TIES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical
Draughtsman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUCKLES OR
BALE TIES." A communication from abroad by Eleazar Judson
Beard, of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, 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 2nd May 1870.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUCKLES
OR BALE TIES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the construction of metal
buckles used for securing the ends of metal bands used in baling cotton
and other substances.

page_text: The buckle to which the improvements particularly refer has a side
opening for the insertion of the free end of the band edgewise into one
of the two slots with which it is furnished, the other slot into which the
other end is hooked having closed ends. The bearing edges of both the
open and closed slots take a convex form, instead of being made straight
as heretofore, the object being to throw the strain upon the centre of the
hoop, and they may be rounded to prevent cutting the hoop. This
decreases the liability of the hoop to tear or break under the strain put
on it by the expansion of the bale, and by removing the strain or purchase
on the buckle from the extremity inwards the buckle is better able to
resist the strain of the hoop. In order further to prevent the buckle
yielding to the strain of the hoop, it is formed with a transverse bead
adjoining the inner ends of the slots, or the section of the metal may
thicken gradually up to and a little beyond this point so as materially to
strengthen the buckle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 1st November 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in 3
the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
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, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter a
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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN BUCKLES OR BALE TIES," being a communication to me from
abroad by Eleazar Judson Beard, of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri,

page_text: United States of America, 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 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 improvements in the construction of metal
buckles used for securing the ends of metal bands used in baling cotton
and other substances.
The buckle to which the improvements particularly refer has a side
opening for the insertion of the free end of the band edgewise into one
of the two slots with which it is furnished, the other slot into which the
other end is hooked having closed ends.
The accompanying Drawing illustrates the improved construction of
buckle, Fig. 1 being a plan or face view of the buckle, Fig. 2 an edge
view, and Fig. 3 a cross section.
The buckle is made of sheet iron rolled to the desired sectional form
as shewn at Fig. 2, and the slots are afterwards punched out by means of
a suitably shaped punching tool.
a is the open, and the closed slot, the bearing edges of these slots it
will be seen take a convex form instead of being made straight as
heretofore, the object being to throw the strain of the compressed bale
upon the centre of the hoop or metal band, and they may be rounded
as shewn in cross section at Fig. 3 to prevent cutting the hoop. This
decreases the liability of the hoop to tear or break under the strain put
on it by the expansion of the bale, and by removing the strain or
purchase on the buckle from the extremity inwards the buckle is better
able to resist the strain of the hoop. In order further to prevent the
buckle yielding to the strain of the hoop it is formed with a transverse

page_text: bead c adjoining the inner ends of the slots. This bead by doubling the
thickness of the metal at the weakest part of the buckle will effectually
secure the buckle against the strain of the metal band.
A slight modification in the form of the buckle is shewn at Figures 4
and 5, where it will be seen that instead of the half round bead c of
Figures 1 and 2 a bead with a broader base and an inclined side is
employed to strengthen the buckle at its weakest part. In other respects
this buckle is substantially the same as that shewn in Fig. 1.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention for "Improvements
in Buckles or Bale Ties," as communicated to me from abroad, and
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be
understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim,
the means above described for enabling buckles or bale ties the better
to withstand the strain of binding hoops or metal bands.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the First day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.