US695214A - Bale-tie. - Google Patents

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No. 695,2!4. Patented Mar. II, I902.

W. A. KILMER.

BALE TIE.

(Application filed Aug. 27, 1901.]

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

WVILLIAM A. KILMER, OF BANGOR, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO WALTER A. SCOTT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,214, dated March 1 1, 1902.

Application filed August 27, 1901. Serial'No. 73,509. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. KILMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bangor, in the county of Van Buren and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in*'bale-ties.

It consists in the construction hereinafter pointed out and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 represents a top view of the bale-tie with the two ends fastened. Fig. 2 represents a similar vie W with the two ends unfastened and ready to be placed together for fastening. Fig. 3 represents a side view of the catching-loop.

In these drawings the letterA indicates a bale-tie made of a piece of wire of one size its entire length and having the catching-loop B and loose or straight end 0. The catchingloop is made by turning the wire of the bale tie a number of times, so as to make several layers, as at b b 6 lying side by side, thus forming a catching-loop which shall be much stronger than if made out of one layer only of wire. In fact, these several layers, while each is of the size of the wire of the bale-tie,

form when thus placed side by side a catch ing-loop which is fully as strong and efficient as though made of a piece of metal larger than the wire of the bale-tie. In forming the catching-loop one of the layers, preferably the middle one, is extended with a tongue 5 which is given a twist, as shown. This catchshown in Fig. 1. When the bale is released and expands within the bale-tie A, the end 0 is jammed down and pinched in the pinching angle 6 the several layers of the wire continuing to resist the jamming action and the resistance aided and effected by the twisted tongue about which the loose end is twined.

I am aware that it is old to make a bale-tie of a single piece of wire and having a catching-loop of one thickness of wire with a twist at each end of the loop, one twist being the end of the bale-tie and about which the loose end is twined. In my device the catchingloop is made of several thicknesses, from one of which there projects a twisted end about which the loose end is entwined. As a result the pinching angle has a closed seat against which the loose end bears, thus effectually preventing the strain from drawing a the loose end into the projecting twisted end and untwisting the same.

I am also aware that a bale-tie catch made of two layers of wire is old. In my device the catching-loop is made by turning the wire upon itself several times, so that the loop is integral with the band and the projecting end is also integral therewith. By having the loop of several thicknesses the pinching angle is preserved and the loop does not spread when the loose end of the wire is jammed down into the angle and affording sufficient strength in the projected end.

What I claim is A bale-tie made of a single wire, having at one end a loop consisting of several layers of the single wire arranged side by side and having a pinching angle with a closed seat, one of said layers extending out and formed into a projecting end, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

IVILLIAM A. KILMER.

Witnesses:

E. E. KILMER,

H. O. ROSS.

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