IMPROVED SELF- PASTENING BUCKLE OR TIE TO BE USED IN FASTENING HOOPS OR BANDS OF METAL ROUND BALES OF COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE CAPABLE OF BEING PACKED IN BALES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Dunwoody Bulloch, of Liverpool, in the
Connty of Lancaster, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVED SELF-
PASTENING BUCKLE OR TIE TO BE USED IN FASTENING HOOPS OR BANDS OF
METAL ROUND BALES OF COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE CAPABLE OF
BEING PACKED IN BALES."-A communication from abroad by Charles
William Wailey, of New Orleans, in the United States of America.
Sealed the 16th April 1867, and dated the 4th February 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Dunwoody. Bulloch
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th February 1867.
I, JAMES DUNWOODY BULLOCH, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "Ax
IMPROVED SELF-FASTENING BUCKLE OR TIE TO BE USED IN FASTENING HOOPS OR
BANDS OF METAL ROUND BALES OF COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE CAPABLE
OF BEING PACKED IN BALES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a new form of buckle or tie which is self-fastening,
and is to be used for fastening the hoops or bands of metal now employed for
the purpose of tying or fastening into bales cotton, wool, and all other mer-

page_text: cbandize which is capable of being packed up and pressed and tied into bales.
This new self-fastening buckle or tie consists of a square plate of metal, the
breadth and width of which is about twice the breadth and the thickness
about the same or a little greater than the thickness of the hoop or band
encircling the bale, and the ends of which it is intended to fasten. In the
plate of metal and at opposite ends thereof two slits are to be cut, so that two
tongues of the same width as the hoop or band of metal to be fastened may be
bent out in a curve from the plane of the plate of metal on that side of the
plate which is intended to be next the bale, and sufficiently far to allow of
the easy introduction through the openings thus made in the plate of the
above-mentioned hoop or band. No portion of the metal of the plate being
removed beyond what is necessary for making the slits therein it is evident
that if the tongues are forced back into their original position they will exactly
fill the spaces in the plate from which they have been bent. When the buckle
is to be used the ends of the hoop or band of metal (after the same has been
put round the bale) are to be introduced through the openings in the buckle
made by the bending out of the tongues; the tongues are then to be forced back
upon the ends of the hoop or band so introduced, and any force applied to the
Loop or band will cause these tongues to press tightly like a wedge upon such
ends of the hoop or band of metal, and the said tongues will hold the ends of
the hoop or band so firmly in the buckle that they cannot slip or be drawn
out of the buckle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Dunwoody Bulloch in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 12th June 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
DUNWOODY BULLOCH, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Dunwoody Bulloch, my executors, adminstrators, and assigns,
Her special licence that I, the said James Dunwoody Bulloch, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James

page_text: Dunwoody Bulloch, 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 "A
IMPROVED SELF-PASTENING BUCKLE OR TIE TO BE USED IN FASTENING HOOPS OR
BANDS OF METAL ROUND BALES OF COTTON, WOOL, AND OTHER MERCHANDIZE CAPABLE
OP BEING PACKED IN BALES," a communication to me from abroad by Charles
William Wailey, of the City of New Orleans, in the United States of America,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Dunwoody
Bulloch, my executors or administrators, 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 the said James Dunwoody Bulloch, 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 accompanying Drawing, and
to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
The said Invention relates to improvements in the form of the buckle or
tie described in the Specification of a Patent granted to Moses Paul
Robertson on the Third day of October, One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six (No. 2535, A.D. 1866), and consists in having the lips or pro-
jections (herein-after called the tongues) bent out in a curve from the plane
of the plate of metal which forms the buckle or tie instead of at an angle in
the buckle, as described in the said Specification, and illustrated in the
Drawings attached thereto; and the Invention also consists in having the said
buckle or tie so formed that there is not on the ends of the tongues them-
selves or upon that portion of the buckle or tie against which the tongues
press the said hoop or band any angle or edge to abrade, weaken, or sever the
hoop or band of metal after it has been applied to a bale, experience having
demonstrated that if there be the slightest angle or edge upon either side of
the buckle or tie in connection with the ends of its projecting tongues injury
to the hoop or band of metal will. surely follow.
.
And in order that the said Invention may be fully understood I shall
now proceed to describe the same more particularly, and for this purpose I
shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, in

page_text: each of which the same letters of reference are used to indicate corresponding
parts.
Figure 1 represents the buckle or tie disconnected from the hoop or band
of metal with which it is intended to be used; Figure 2 is a plan, and
Figure 3 a sectional side view of the same buckle or tie attached to and
fastening the ends of the said hoops or bands of metal.
The improved buckle or tie A consists of a square piece of metal, the
breadth and width of which are about twice the breadth of and the thickness
about the same or a little greater than the thickness of the hoop or band of
metal encircling the bale, and the ends of which it is intended to fasten. In
this plate of metal and at opposite sides thereof two slits are to be cut, so
that two tongues B and B of the same width as the hoop or band of metal to
be fastened may be bent out, as represented in Figure One, in a curve from
the plane of the plate of metal on that side of the plate which is intended to
be next the bale when fastened, and sufficiently far to allow of the easy
introduction through the openings (A and A) thus made in the plate of the
hoop or band C. The sharp angle or arris on the edges of the tongues and
on the portions of the plate "A" from whence these tongues have been cut
and bent out is then to be removed. No portion of the metal of plate A being
removed beyond what is necessary for making the slits therein to form the
tongues B and B themselves, as well as what is necessary for the removal of
the sharp angle or arris above mentioned, it is evident that if the tongues are
forced back into their original position they will nearly fill the spaces in the
plate A from which they have been bent, and that when the ends of the
hoop or band had been introduced through the openings "a" and "a" and
the tongues forced back upon the ends of the hoop or band so introduced, as
represented in Figures Two and Three, these tongues will press tightly like a
wedge upon such ends of the hoop or band of metal and hold them so tightly
that they cannot slip or be drawn out of the buckle.
The mode of applying the herein-before described buckle or tie to fasten
the ends of a hoop or band of metal after the same has been placed round a
bale is exactly the same as that described in the above-mentioned Specification
of the Patent granted to Moses Paul Robertson on the Third day of October,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention, and s
the manner in which the same is or may be performed or carried into effect,
I desire it to be understood that what I claim as the Invention secured to me
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improved self-

page_text: fastening buckle or tie of the form and constructed as herein-before described
and illustrated in Figure One of the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Dunwoody Bulloch, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
JAMES DUNWOODY BULLOCH. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
said James Dunwoody Bulloch in
the presence of
Wч. STONE,
Attorney-at-Law,
6, Cook Street, Liverpool.