Improved Packing Tool for use in the Closing of Coarse Hampers and analogous purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1897
Complete Specification Loft 10th Ann 1808 Accented 4th June
1898
Date of Application, 22nd July, 1897
Complete Specification Loft 10th And 1008 Accented, 4th June
1898
PRUVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Packing Tool for use in the Closing of Coarse Hampers
and analogous purposes.
JOHN BRADBURY, Haywoods Park, Deepcar, near Sheffield, in the County of
York, Mercantile Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
According to the present invention I take a piece of U shaped steel wire or other
suitable material-one portion of which is then so closed together, and sharpened
at the extremity, as to form a tubular awl; this is left quite straight or is slightly
curved, as may be necessary.
In the groove of the portion at the opposite end of the U shaped steel wire or
other suitable material a piece of solid strengthening wire is placed and the whole
then pressed together so as to make a solid shank suitable for fixing in an ordinary
wooden handle.
Between the aforesaid two portions I leave an aperture sufficiently large to admit
the tying wire or packing twine into the tube.
Also, as an alternative, a similar result may be obtained by using cylindrically-
shaped steel wire-that is steel tubing.
The object of the invention is to construct an improved packing tool or tubular
awl, which, when inserted in the meshes of hampers and the like will form a free
and uninterrupted passage for the tying wire or packing twine.
Dated this 21st day of July 1897.
JOHN BRADBURY.
Improved Packing Tool for use in the Closing of Coarse Hampers
and analogous purposes.
JOHN BRADBURY, of Haywood Park, Deepcar, near Sheffield, Mercantile Clerk,
do hereby declare tue 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:-
According to the present invention I take a piece of U shaped steel wire or other
suitable material-one portion of which is then so closed together, & sharpened
at the extremity, as to form a tubular awl or needle-this is left quite straight or
is slightly curved as may be necessary.
In the groove of the portion at the opposite end of the U shaped steel wire or

page_text: other suitable material a piece of strengthening wire is placed and the whole then
pressed together so as to make a solid shank suitable for fixing in an ordinary
wooden handle.
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Between the aforesaid two portions I leave an aperture sufficiently large to
admit the tying wire or packing twine into the tube.
Also, as an alternative the tubular portion may be left slightly open instead of
being totally closed.
The object of the invention is to construct an improved packing tool or tubular
needle which, when inserted in the intersfices of hampers and the like, will form
a free and uninterrupted passage for the tying-wire or packing twine.
The accompanying drawing indicates the nature of my invention:
Fig. 1 shews the U-shaped material from which the tool is made.
Fig. 2 shews a side view of the finished tool-a, b, being the tubular portion;
b, c, the aperture, and c, d, the shank end.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
(1) In or connected with packing needles, the tubular portion, for the purpose
hereinbefore described.
(2) In or connected with packing needles, the tubular portion left slightly open
instead of being totally closed, for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Dated this 18th day of April 1898.
JOHN BRADBURY.