US185544A - Improvement in bale-ties - Google Patents

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J. R. KENNEDY.

BALE-TIE.

No. 185,544. Patented Dec.19, 1876.

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JOHN R. KENNEDY, OF TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,544, dated December 19, 1876; application filed December 12, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JNo. R. KENNEDY, of Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa county, Alabama, have invented an Improvement in Bale-Ties, of which the following is a specification:

This is an improvement on the improvement in iron ties for bales patented to me the 3d day of March, 1874; and the improvements here spoken of consist in, first, using at the band B a slotted recess, 0, Fig. 2, and at a distance about equal to the length of the link or fastening A, Fig. 4, is a round hole, D, into which is inserted the upper end of the fastening a And the inside of this hook is bent down closely to the band B by striking with a hammer, or otherwise. The object of bending down the fastening a close to the band B is that, when the fastening is once made by hooking the end a into any of the holes of the band B then the end a will drop in the next hole and operate as a lock, to prevent the hook A from slipping or flying out when the bale falls on its edge, or is compressed in loading ships, 8:0. The object of the slotted recess 0 is to keep the fastening A safely in its proper position before it is used, and to hold down the band B after the fastening is made.

In my patent of March 3, 1874, I used oblong round-ended holes, one at the end of hoop B and others at the other end B In this improvement I still use the oblong holes at equal distances at the end of the band B as before, and the slotted recess and smaller hole at the other end B, as shown in accompanyin g drawings.

To make the fastening the crook a of the link A fastened to the end of the band B as shown in Fig. 1, is hooked over into any one of the holes of band 13*, then the crook a falls back into the next hole, and the fastening is completed.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the link A fastened to the band B by inserting the end a through the hole D, bent inward, and closed against band B and the other end of the link A resting through the open slotted recess 0, the fastening of the tie then being made to B by inserting the end a imo any of the holes 13, dropping the end a in the next hole, thus forming a lock, substantially as described.

JNO. R. KENNEDY.

Witnesses:

M. GARDNER, JNo. S. KENNEDY.

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