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' L. E. EVANS.

, BALE TIE. No. 302,243. I PatentedJuly 22, 1884.

@ IVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LEMUEL E. EVANS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW'JERSEY, ASSIGNOR To CHARLES e. PATTERSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,243, dated July 22, 1884.

' Application filed April 10, 1884. (No model.)

' To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEMUEL E. E ANS, of East Orange, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bale-Ties, of which the following is a Specifi cation. I

The invention relates to a means of scouring bands of wire used for confining bales of cotton, hay, and analogous material; and it consists in providing the hook at one end of the band with two braces or supports, one of which rests upon the opposite wire, and the other enters the eye which engages with the hook, the principle being to support the hook and prevent its straightening under strain, first, by thejamming of one of the braces between the parts of the eye as the latter tends to elongate; and, second, by the bearing of the other brace upon the opposite part" of the band.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a side view of my improved bale-tie, and Fig.

2 is a view of the Same from above.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A and B represent the ends of the wire band. In the end. A, I 'form a loop or eye, 0, by twisting, as shown. In the end B, 1 form another loop or eye longer than the loop 0 in H is flattened and forms a brace.

two parts of the tie are engaged, as shown in the end' A. The parts of the loop in the end B are brought together side by side, and, the loop is then bent four times, to form the hook D and bights E and F and G. The extremity hen the the drawings, the loop 0 is received in the hook D, the bight F enters the loop 0, and the brace H rests upon the upper Side of the wire due to the binding of the end H upon the wire A. The parts H and F thus act as braces to re-enforce the hook. Theconsequenoe is, as I find by practical experiment, that the hook D will not straighten, and that the greater the strain that is applied the more firmly do the parts of the tie bind and jam together.

I claim as my invention 1. A wire bale band or strap having in each of its ends aloop or eye, one eye having its parts brought together and bent to form a hook, a downwardly-projecting bight, and an inclined brace, the said parts being adapted to engage in and with the loop on the opposite end of the band, substantially as described.

2. In ajoale-tie, a loop or eye at one end of the band, and a hook at the opposite end,

adapted to receive said eye, the said hook be-.

ing provided with a projecting arm adapted to enter and pass through said eye, and an inclined brace adapted to rest upon the opposite end of the band immediately in rear of said eye, when the parts of the tie are engaged, substantially asdescribed. 3. In a bale-tie, a loop or eye at one end of the band, and a hook at the opposite end, the said hook being provided with two braces, one resting upon the opposite wire, and the other passing through the eye, and adapted to be jammed between the parts thereof when the eye is extended under strain, when the parts ot the tie are engaged, substantially as described.

4. In a bale-tie, the combination of the wire A, having a loopfG, at its extremity, and the wire B, having at its end a loop longer than the loop 0, the parts of said, last-mentioned loop being brought together and bent to form a hook, D, bi ghts E and F and G, and. flattened extremity H, substantially as described.

E. F. ToURTELLoT, WV. A. FRENCH.

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