or Improved System of Net-work-fastening or "Cording" for Securing Packages Containing Products of any nature.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1899-Accepted,
COMPLETE SPECIFICA
New or Improved System of Net-work-fastening or "Cording" for
Securing Packages Containing Products of any nature.
I, MAURICE LAPEYRE, of 21, Rue Raze, Bordeaux, France Manufacturer, do
reby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
g statement;
The object of the present invention is a system of safety net-work fastening
1 cording" for packages of any nature.
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Fig. 1 represents in plan view the system of safety net-work fastening applied to
small box.
Fig. 2 represents an end view thereof provided with a lead safety seal.
Fig. 3 represents an elevational view of one of the long sides of the box.
This system of safety net-work fastening is composed of a metal wire or any
other suitable material covering the package as illustrated, as an example, in
The vertical parts A of the net work on the sides of the
the annexed drawing.
package are double and twisted, and form each on one end a loop through which
the wire of the net work passes which forms either the top or the bottom
of the fastening. These loops are for the purpose of allowing the tightening of
the fastening before affixing a lead safety seal.
The vertical part B is also doubled and formed by the two ends of the net-work.
These two ends are bent and twisted at b for effecting the tying and fixing of
the fastening on the package. These two ends are then passed into the lead safety
seal in the ordinary manner and the seal is stamped; thereupon the said seal is
placed on the surface bc of the package, the two ends of the network which project
out of the seal being passed under the vertical wire B of the tied up and fixed
network so as to fix the lead seal firmly on the said vertical wire. This latter
25 operation is advisable in order to hold the lead seal well against the surface of the
package and to prevent its being detached during handling and transport.
In order to fully understand the invention I will hereinafter describe in detail
the manner of applying the net work fastening represented as an example in the
annexed drawing.
A double twisted wire, for instance, the ends of which are twisted in suc
a manner as to form an eye 1 is placed against one side face bc of the packag
the two ends of said wire then diverge under the lower surface of the package
order to meet the edges of the package nearly in the centre of the length
this surface. There the two ends are applied vertically as at A against the opposi
35 side surfaces of the package after having been rebent and twisted together in
manner to form two loops 2 and 3 reaching to the upper surface of the packag
The ends of the free wires then meet each other again on the under surface of
package and are united on the outer edge of this lower surface at 4 and are th
twisted to make a vertical end branch.
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The free ends of this latter end branch then diverge, pass along the up
surface of the package and pass through the loops 2 and 3 before mentioned to
twisting at b, and also pass through eye 1 and are fastened to

page_text: twisted wire with which the fastening was commenced, for instance by means of
the seal as already indicated.
The form of this system of safety fastening, its dimensions arrangement and
combinations may vary according to the size and form of the packages. These
latter may be in the form of boxes of different forms, metal boxes, parcels, or any
other kind of receptacle used for packing products of any nature.
The material used for making the fastening described may be metal in the form
of wire or any other suitable form or any other material allowing by its nature
of executing this system of safety net-work fastening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
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A new or improved system of safety fastening or cording" for packages con-
taining products of any nature consisting in the use of any material in the form of
wire or other suitable form, doubly twisted upon itself the pieces of which-
twisted at the commencement diverge on the upper or lower face of the package
in order to form lateral branches, having in each a variable number of twists,
each twisted part ending in a loop, the wires constituting the said branches then
converging towards each other in order to re-unite and pass after torsion to the
other face of the package where they diverge again to pass through the loops
terminating the lateral branches and to then re-unite in a twisted joint fixed by
means of any suitable seal to the twisted joint forming the commencement of
the system of net-work the whole substantially as described and for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 9th dar of December 1899
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.