US1490527A - Bale tie - Google Patents

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April 15 1924. 1,490,527

W. P. AGEE, JR

BALE TIE Filed Oct. 1. 1923 IN VEN TOR.

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Patented WILLIAM P. AGEE, 53., OF HOPE, ARKANSAS.

BALE TIE.

Application filed October 1, 1923. Serial Io. 665,977.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM P. Acne, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Hope, in the county of Hempstead and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale Ties, of which the following is a specification,

reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to bale ties and more particularly to a bale tie of the type employed for fastening cotton bales or bales of merchandise.

An important object of the invention is to provide a tie for this purpose having a buckle so constructed. that pressure placed upon the buckle by the side of the bale will not tend to loosen or free the same.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bale tie buckle for bale ties of this character having a pair of hooks, one of the hooks acting to brace the other of the hooks while the other of the hooks acts as a lock to prevent disengagement of the buckle from pressure placed thereon in any direction. but a direction opposite to the direction of movement in fastening the buckle.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character the hooks of which are so constructed that they are readily engaged in the tie.

A further object of the invention is to provide a buckle for bale ties formed from a single piece of wire, both ends of which are employed as hooks, each hook pulling with the other hook and making slipping impossible.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a bale tie and buckle in combination therewith of such construction that In compress parhandling the bale.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a buckle the two hooks of which go through the tie (which tie has its ends doubled back and had holes punched through both ties) and each hook being spaced one behind the other, lengthwise of the tie, and through the tie, makes it impossible for the bottom tie to slip sideways out from under the top tie and form a spider.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a buckle on a tie that all ends of both the buckle and the tie are tucked under the tie after same has been placed on the bale. (This eliminates spiders which no other buckle and tie has ever done.)

These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention and wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a bale tie constructed in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional View through the bale tie;

Figure 3 is a plan view of the bale tie buckle detached; and

Figure 4 is a perspectiveview of a modified form of buckle, the bale tie being indicated in dotted lines. 7

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a bale tie having at one end a buckle receiving loop 11 and having the opposite end thereof doubled back and provided in the double thickness thus formed with a plurality of uniformly spaced openings 12, which openings are elongated longitudinally of the tie band.

The buckle loop 11 receives a buckle 13 constructed from a single piece of wire the ends 14 of which are bent back so that they converge toward one another. At the longitudinal center of the buckle these ends are bent in the plane of such longitudinal center and toward the bight portion 15 of the buckle. as indicated at 16, the inner end of one arm being disposed more nearly adjacent the bight portion of the buckle than the inner end of the other arm and having the bend connecting the same with its attached end portion more acute than the bend of the other end portion. The end portion 16 of such other arm 14: is of greater length than the end portion 16 of the first mentioned arm 1% and having the same inclination thereas.

These end portions 16 and 16*, while they lie in a common plane, represented by the plane of the longitudinal center of the buckle, incline rearwardly and have their end portions downturned, as indicated at 17. It is preferred that the space between corresponding faces of the bends connecting the end portions 16 and 16 of the buckle to their respective arms be spaced apart a distance equal to the distance between corresponding ends of the openings 12 although, as illustrated in Figure 4;, the spacing between corresponding faces may, if so desired, be made only equal to the thickness of the wire from which the buckle is formed so that the inner face of the outer end portion will abut the outer face of the inner end portion.

The openings 12 in conjunction with a buckle of the above character and of the first form described will be made of a length equal to approximately twice the diameter of the wire employed in forming the buckle and of a width equal to the diameter of such wire. In conjunction with a buckle of the second construction the openings 12 will be made of the same width but of slightly greater length. In the use of the buckle the down-bent end portions 17 serve as guides to assist in directing the ends of the wire through the openings 12. When the buckle is in position the angular por tion 16*, being of greater length than the angular portion 16, serves as a brace and to prevent disengagement of the buckle from the openings while the second end portion 16 has a tendency to grip against the mate rial of the buckle to prevent separation of the tie ends due to any slight looseness of the ends of the band. The points or downbent terminal portions 17 tend to engage in the cotton to prevent any shifting of the bale tie upon the bale in addition to assisting in entering the end portions 16 and 16 in the openings. Such a buckle can only be disengaged by relative movement of the bale tie end portions toward one another and such a movement is impossible in ordinary handling of the bale. It will be noted that all end portions of the buckle lie entirely beneath the tie as also does the excess length of thetie where they are completely hidden so that projections of such end portions to form spiders is entirely eliminated. Attention is directed to the fact that due to the fact the buckle is held straight with one end portion of the tie by the engagement of its bight portion in the buckle loop thereof and of the fact that the hooks of the buckle are in alignment, the buckle cannot be engaged with the free end of the tie until the ends of such free end can move from beneath the buckle end of the tie to form a spider. It will be obviousthat the construction hereinbefore set forth is capable of a certain range of change and modification without in any manner departing from the spirit of my invention and I accordingly do not limit myself to such specific structure as hereinbefore set forth except as hereinafter claimed.

I claim 1. In combination with a fiat metallic bale tie provided at one end With a transversely extending buckle receiving loop and at the opposite end thereof with longitudinally spaced elongated openings, a straight back buckle comprising a bight portion adapted to be engaged in said loop andhaving the end portions thereof converging forwardly from such bight-portion, such end portions being each reverted and having such reverted portions disposed in the same plane.

2. In combination with a strap metal bale tie provided at one end with a buckle receiving loop and at the opposite end thereof with longitudinally spaced elongated openings, a straight back buckle comprising a bight portion adapted to be engaged in said loop and having the end portions thereof converging forwardly from such bight portion, such end portions being each reverted and having such reverted portions disposed in the same plane, said reverted portions being each provided at its free end with a downturned guide portion, the connection of the reverted portions with such end portions being spaced apart a distance equal to the distance between corresponding ends of the openings of said bale tie.

3. In combination with a strap metal bale tie provided atone end with a buckle receiving loop and at the opposite end thereof with longitudinally spaced openings, a straight back buckle comprising a bight portion adapted to be engaged in said loop and by its engagement held against movement with relation to the buckle end of the tie, the end portions of said bight portions converging forwardly from such bight portion at different angles to the bight portion, such end portions being each reverted in a plane bisecting the buckle end of the tie.

4. In combination with a strap metal bale tie provided at one end with a buckle receiving loop and at the opposite end thereof with longitudinally spaced openings, a straight back buckle comprising a bight portion adapted to be engaged in said loop and by its engagement held against movement with relation to the buckle end of the tions With the end portions being spaced tie, the end portions of said bight portions apart a distance equal to the distance beconverging forwardly from such bight portween corresponding ends of the openings 1 tion at different angles to the bight porof said bale tie.

5 tion, such end portions being each revert- In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my ed in a plane bisecting the buckle end of signature. the tie, the connections of the reverted por- WILLIAM P. AGEE, JR.

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