US885917A - Bale-tie. - Google Patents

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No. 885,917. v PATENTED APR. 28, 1908.

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BALE TIE.

APELIUATION FILED HA3. 6 1907.

ATTORNEY State made of a-single wire and is'an imiprovement the deformation and possible pulling of the ends of theztie, the middle portion of said tie has engaged with the eye.

j Cross heads of the shape shown in the Stowhen ing the Wire around aforming pin of separated at a considerable angle or the clearly shown in the drawings of said. Stewart rntrENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. FER-BIS, or STERLING, ILLINOIS.

BALE

Specification of Letters Patent.

-TIE,

Eatented April 28', 1908;

Application filed Karena 1907. Serial No. 3 0,914.

Y '0 all whom/it may concern:

Belt known'that 1, WIL IAM D. FERRIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sterlin in the county of Wl'lltGSldG and 0% Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bale-Ties,' of whiohthe following is a specification.

The "invention relates to j wire bale ties upon the tie set forth in U. S. atent No. 191,192, granted to. L. ,Stew art, May 22, 1877.. l

The object of the invention is to preventcross head out of the eye when, under strain and to render the tie stronger and more nilicient.

. The-invention consists in the construction of the tie as hereinafter set claimed. Y

- In the accom anying drawings-Figure .1 shows the cross head and eye at the opposite forth and beijn broken away. Fig. 2 shows the cross Similar numbers of reference indicate like parts.

art atentaforesaid are ordinarily made by suitable sha' e to produce the desiredconiig oration. vl l'icn the cross beads are thus made it is practically impossible to bring the parts 1, 2, at the bi ht 3 o'l-the cross head A, closely together. lence, these parts stand curve at the bight is oi considerable rad his as patent. l have found that when this opening at the bight 3 is relatively large the hook no longer properly engages, as shown in Fig. 2, with the twisted eye it ll-fllll'U-il on the o posite end of the tie. This dillioulr-y can he whollyavoidedb bringing the parts I and .2 of the cross heat which lie beyond thr-v hook 4 closely together,- so that the part hears directly upon the part 1, and the opening orstrut, w lich when the tie is engaged as shown in Fig. 2 bears on the-twisted part of thetie 1n proximity to the eye B, and not onl prevents said cross head hook coming out of t it eye, but

furnishes, through the bearing of part 2 on part 1, and of part 1' on the tie, a rigid su port rsaidhook which prevents any ten ency.

of that hook to straig iten out when strain is a plied thereto in the direction of arrow 7. This result is furthersecured by bending both parts of the loop in the same plane and at an angle 6 to the parallel juxtaposed parts immediatelyadjacent to the tw1st,'and by forming the book 4 at the bend.

As it-is obvious that a cross head of this form cannot be produced by ben dim the wire aroundv a suitably shaped forming pm, I have devised a new mechanism for making?1 this cross head by first forming a bight and a 00k, then twisting the parts of the bighttogether and then laterally compressing the resulting eyeand hook into the shape here shown. Said mechanism is fully set forth and claimed in another application for Letters Patent, Serial N 0. 360,913 filed by me simultaneously herewith.

In a wire bale-tie crosshead, a loop formed by twisting together the doubled over end and the standing portion of the tie wire and having both'bf its parts in the same plane, a bend in said loop located between the extremity thereod' and the twist, a hook formed in one of said parts and at said bend,- the other of said parts being straight fmn'i' the bend to the extremity of the loop, and both parts being in substantially close contact from said extremity .l'ora distance toward the hook.

i In testimony whereof I have ttlllXOIl my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WlLlJlAM l). l EltltlS.

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