Better Means of Securing Papers Together in Bundles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Better Means of Securing Papers Together in Bundles.
WALTER SNELL of 7 Pond Street Hampstead in the County of Middlesex
Surveyor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The overcoming all the points of failure hitherto existant in the mode of securing
bundles of papers-such as:-loose and shifting bundles, shapelessness, bulk,
damaged and fretted edges, lengths of unfastened tape and projecting ends, bows
and knots, untidyness and confusion by the following means, in which my invention
consists:-
:-
A specially contrived card; to serve, in the first place, as endorsement for
bundles; through which is punched two holes, strengthened for the strain to be
put upon them by either eyelets, or circular discs.
One end of a tape is fastened on to the left hole, the other end being passed
through the opposite hole, and enclosing the bundle to be held.
The fastening is made, by simply passing tape round back of bundle; then, under
bottom of card, and back again under top of card as shown in the drawing herewith,
where
A, is the bundle to be fastened.
B, the fastening of tape on to card.
C, the other end of tape, passing through hole and enclosing bundle.
D, the same, continued under card.
E, the same, drawn over tape and into slot, when fastening is secured.
F, projecting end of tape.
The result of this simple passage is:-the bundle thus fastened is secured at a
tightness hitherto unobtained. As the tape passes round, so it accumulates friction
and resistance. Especially is this the case where it enters the slot provided for it
and turns again upon itself under the card; when the grip is caught and sustained.
The bundle is untied or slackened, by a reverse, or partially reverse process; the
latter, being an advantage most means of tying does not afford.
Dated this Twelfth day of April 1892.
WALTER SNELL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Better Means of Securing Papers Together in Bundles.
WALTER SNELL of 7 Pond Steet Hampstead in the County of Middlesex
Surveyor do hereby declare the 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 :-
My invention consists of a better means of securing papers together in bundles,
which is effected by a specially designed card to serve the purpose of an endorse-
ment card through which two holes are punched which are strengthened for the
strain to be put upon them by the addition of circular disks as used upon luggage
labels.
One end of a tape is looped on to the card at one hole, being fastened thereto by
a metal clip as at B on the drawing lodged with Provisional Specification which
clinches the tape, thereby avoiding an unseemly knot; the other end passing
through the opposite hole and enclosing with it the bundle of papers or matter to
be secured.
On reference to the drawing lodged with Provisional Specification it will be seen

page_text: that the bundle A is secured, not by any manipulated fastening, but by simply con-
tinuing the tape round bundle at back; then, under card at bottom and top, pulling
tape tight at each round and leaving a small projection F visible, and to hand, (at
top if possible) for loosening or unfastening as required.
The result of this simple passage is; the bundle is secured by a fastening which
is necessarily accumulative in its character. At no point of the passage of the tape,
does a slip take place. First; there is the pull into position upon the strenthened
holes of card then; the reverse passage of strain after tape has passed through
second hole then; the resistance gathered at each turn on the bundle: that gained
by the close contact of tape, strained in one direction with that of the length of tape,
strained in a contrary direction; the friction of the card; and that of the slotted
portion where the tape in its passage, pulls in, across the other two lengths of tape
before being finally disposed of behind card as at F.
The whole of the pulling and fretting is borne by the strengthened holes of card,
the enclosed papers or parcel receiving passively the result of same in com-
pression.
The semi-circular slots in card, also serve the purpose of receiving the wind of
tape, in packing the finished article ready for sale.
In the drawing lodged with Provisional Specification ;—
A is the bundle to be fastened.
B the fastening of tape on to card.
C the other end of tape passing through hole and enclosing bundle.
D the same continued under card.
E the same drawn over tape and into slot; when fastening is secured.
F projecting end of tape.
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. The combination of eyelet holes, card, and tape and the securing of the loose
end of tape so as to fasten a bundle of papers without tying substantially as
shown.
2. The securing a bundle with any requisite degree of firmness, by simply
passing the loose end of tape round a card, substantially as shown.
3. The ready loosening of the fastening round a bundle of papers leaving the
papers secured in position.
4. The convenient application of an endorsement card to a bundle by passing
tape through eyelet holes in such card.
5. The method in which tape is secured to the card as shown.
Dated this Fifteenth day of December One thousand eight hundred and
ninety-two.
WALTER SNELL.