IMPROVEMENTS IN TIES FOR SECURING BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Pugh Jones at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd August 1878.
I, EDWARD PUGH JONES, of Shell Mound, Mississippi, United States
of America, now of No. 8, Southampton Buildings, London, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TIES FOR SECURING BALES OF COTTON AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE," to be as
follows:-
My Invention relates to the manufacture of bale ties by stamping or
otherwise forming them from pieces of metal of uniform thickness.
My improved tie is so constructed as to permit the entire slack of
the tie band to be taken up after the bale has been compressed, and to
allow a hook at the end of its free section to be then introduced
and secured without slitting or cutting through the side of the tie

page_text: and without cutting away any portion or portions of the said tie,
to provide flanges to retain the hook and prevent its lateral slipping
when the band is subjected to the expansive force of the bale; I
thus construct a bale tie with continuous uncut sides, and with all
the advantages of the open slot tic and with greater facility of fastening,
as without turning the tio plate, or in any manner changing its position
after the fastening is effected, the hook at the free end of the band can
be introduced in and over its bearing, and exactly parallel therewith.
Moreover when the bale is freed from the compression the said hook is
left in such a position as to be drawn by a straight pull directly over
its bearing, being guided and held thereon by the sides of the tie. I
thus avoid all manipulation of the hook in the slot or opening in the
tie after its introduction to bring the same over its proper bearing
surface, and render unnecessary any peculiar configuration of the slot
to assist in automatically accomplishing the required result.
The nature of my Invention consists in constructing the tie in the
following manner, that is to say, the metal plate is formed with slots
or openings, separated by a tongue formed on one side of the tie and
projecting inward from the same across the tie in the same plane, or
nearly so, as the sides. At its disconnected extremity the edge of the
said tongue is slightly curved or turned down to leave a space or
opening between it and the side of the tie, just sufficient to permit the
introduction of the loop or hook edgewise. The latter, after being
introduced and passed over the tongue, is so held by the sides of the
tie as to prevent its lateral slipping, so that the hook cannot possibly a
become accidently detached.
If desired the front side of the tie, or that side which acts as a
clamping bar for the hook, and which assists in holding the band with
like security, whether the outer section of the hook in fastening is
turned under or over the body of the band, may be made slightly
bulging from the face of the plate. This construction facilitates the
hooking of the band over the tongue when the latter is exactly in the
same plane as its bearing side, or that side with which it is connected.
The aforesaid tongue may be formed with both its sides parallel with

page_text: outer edge may be formed with a shoulder or projection, either
rectangular or bevelled; and I make one of the angles or corners of
the slot or opening with a bevelled projection, which in combination
with the aforesaid shoulder on the tongue will form a reliable bearing
for the hook or loop of the band.