AN IMPROVEMENT IN BANDS FOR SECURING BALES OF GOODS, AND FOR OTHER LIKE USES
Year: 1856

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 IMPROVEMENT IN BANDS FOR SECURING BALES
OF GOODS, AND FOR OTHER LIKE USES."-A communication.
Sealed the 1st November. 1856, and dated the 8th May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th May 1856.
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 AN IMPROVEMENT IN BANDS FOR SECURING BALES
OF GOODS, AND FOR. OTHER LIKE USES, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction and use of bands of iron or other
suitable metal, the ends of which are so doubled back as to form a catch
when slipped into each other. These fastenings are prevented from giving
way, or from separating under the expansive pressure of the cotton or other
material confined between them by means of sliding loops, struck by a die
from square pieces of metal, which loops closely bind and hold together, the
said fastenings.

page_text: 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 6th November 1856.
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 Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth 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, 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 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 IM-
PROVEMENT IN BANDS FOR SECURING BALES OF GOODS, AND FOR OTHER LIKE USES,"
being a communication from abroad, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, 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, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, con-
sists in preparing hoop iron or other metal hooping, so as to make it of easy.
application in baling cotton or other fibrous matter.
1
To enable any one skilled in iron work and baling hay, hemp, or cotton, to
make and use this method of fastening the iron hoop, I will describe its con-
struction more fully. The hoop iron is cut to any desired length, and then a
book is formed on each end thereof, as shewn by 5 and 6 in Fig. 2 of the
accompanying Drawing. Over these hooks, when put together, a flat link or
slide is placed, which secures the hooks from opening by the expanding

page_text: pressure of the bale on the removal of the compressing power. This link or
slide is made of thin hoop iron; cut and formed with dies, so as to make it of
easy application and sufficient strength to secure the hooks fully. For the form
of this slide reference may be had to Fig. 3, which exhibits the under side of
the slide, or the side which goes next to the bale. In Fig. 2, the other or
outside of the slide is shewn, which is so constructed that the part 1 serves as
a guard to prevent the slide from dropping down too far when applied in
baling, while the saddle piece 2 clips the band.
Fig. 1 exhibits the hoop applied to the bale A, with the saddle piece 2 of the
slide resting on the outer hook 6, or the lower part of the hoop.
Fig. 4 exhibits a sectional view of the tie complete, from which it will be
seen that the guard 1 lies close to the upper end of the metal band or hoop,
whilst the parts 2, 3, and 4 of the slide are made open enough to receive four
thicknesses of the hoop iron. This arrangement of the slide secures it from
being lost off the hoop iron after the hooks are turned on the ends, as well as
prevents the slide from dropping too far down when applying the hoop to the
bales. With this improved tie, bales are made much more rapidly than with
rope, and are kept in very much better condition, as well as greatly more
secure from destruction by fire, or damage by water.
Ilaving now set forth the nature and object of the Invention of an improve-
ment in bands for securing bales of goods, as communicated to me from abroad,
I wish it to be understood that, under the above in part recited Letters Patent,
I claim the combination of the link or slide with the hooked ends of hoop iron
or other metal strips, for the purpose of forming a fastening easy of application
and capable of resisting the expansive force of the bale to which it may
be applied.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of October, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
A. V. NEWTON. (L.B.)