US1080778A - Bale-tie. - Google Patents

Description

(LE. PULVER.

BALE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.12, 1911.

1,980,778, Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH CO WASHINUTON. D c

CHARLES E. PULVE R, 0F COSMOPOLIS WASHINGTON.

BALE-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

Application filed December 12, 1911. Serial No. 665,337.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLns E. PULVER,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Cosmopolis, in the county of Chehalis and State of rvashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BaleTies, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bale ties.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efiicient bale tie that will not injure the hands of the user engaged in adjusting it around the bale.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in the combination, arrangement and details of construction shown in the drawings and then more particularly pointed out in the appended claims. i 7

Similar reference. characters designate similar parts throughout the respective views in the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bale tie shown in position over a bale, Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail side elevation thereof, showing the wires in position thereupon, Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the bale tie, Fig. 1 is a vertical end elevation thereof, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the bale tie.

The bale tie to be described belongs to that species of ties which has as a leading characteristic a flattened blank with which the opposite ends of the wire or similar securing means have engagement. The bale ties of this particular construction hitherto in use have not afiorded security against danger of the wire projections protruding from the tie and causing injury to the hands of the user. It has also been necessary to perform two distinct operations in order to secure the tie hitherto in use over a bale and this has resulted in but very little efficiency being obtained from the use of the tie. By my construction the top surface of the tie is devoid of any sharp projections and it is also possible at a single operation to lock and to cut the free end of the wire in order to cause the bale to be firmly held.

1 designates the flat and preferably rectangular base or blank forming the bale tie and which is made preferably of steel metal but may be made out of any suitable metal.

Formed upon the rigid base 1 intermediate its ends is a transverse cut away portion 2 whose inner end is arcuate and forms part a of the outer recess 4, the walls of which flare from small at the recess 3 to large at the edge of said base.

Formed at one side of the kerf 2 and transversely in the base 1, is the up-set portion or tongue 5 disposed preferably diagonally of the longitudinal axis of the base, and up-raised to a substantially oblique position, as clearly shown in Figs. 2, 4, and 5 so as to form an acute angle with respect to the body of the base 1. The diagonal recess formed by rip-setting the tongue 5 is designated 6. A relatively elongated recess or notch 7 is formed transversely in the base 1 at the opposite side of the kerf 2.

The bale tie will be used as follows: After the bale 9 or compact body to be secured by means of the tie is placed in position a given length of wire may be passed under the bottom and over the sides thereof until the opposed ends of the wire may be placed in position over the base 1, said opposed ends 10 and 11 being bent rigidly over the upper corners of the bale. The end 10 of the wire 8 will first be adjusted so as to be sufficient in length to be passed through the recess 3 in the base 1 and to be bent over the edge of said recess and passed diagonally over the under side 12 of said base and bent over the edge 13 thereof and over the edge of said base as at 14: and then passed through the recess 7 and still have a portion 15 to overlie the under side 12 of the base as a remainder. The opposite end 11 of the wire 8 may now be secured to said tie after said wire shall have been drawn taut, and for this purpose it is only necessary to cause the end 11 to be passed under the base 1 and bent upwardly over the base 3, over the edge of said recess and then bent as at 16 over the top of said base and passed under the tongue 5 so as to bridge the recess 6, until its uppermost end will rest upon the end 16 of the base 1. By means of any suitable instrument the tongue 5 will then be stamped down upon and against the bridging portion 17 of the end 11 of the wire 8 thereby cutting off the outermost end 19 of said wire and enabling the tongue 5 to enter its opening 6 so as to occupy an alining position with respect to the main body of the base 1. When in this position the tongue 5 will overlie the bridge portion 17 of the end 11 of the Wire 8,

clearly shown in Fig. 1 and it will be gathered from said figure that the outermost ends 15 and 17 of the ends 10 and 11 of the wire 8 will be disposed at the under side of said base 1. Should the hands of the user come in contact with the overlying portions of the wire exposed at the top of the base 1, a smooth surface will be presented devoid of projections which might cause injury.

Numerous modifications may be resorted to without departing in essence from the invention disclosed and claimed.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A bale tie consisting of a plate having an opening with a reduced neck, oppositely inclined edges leading to said opening whereby a bale wire may be directed to said opening, slots on said plate located on the opposite sides of said opening whereby the ends of said wire may be bent around said plate and caught in said slots, a struck up tongue adjacent one of said slots under which one end of said wire is adapted to pass said tongue adaptedto be driven down to a plane with said plate to bend said end into one of said slots, said tongue being adapted to coact with one edge of said last slot to form a shear to out 01f the extreme projecting end of said wire set thereunder.

2. A bale tie consisting of a plate having slots adapted to receive the ends of a bale wire and a tongue adapted to be bent down thereby bending one end of said wire into one of said slots and clipping off the extreme end thereof.

3. A bale tie consisting of a plate having a series of slots and an upstruck tongue adapted to coact with said plate to shear a wire held thereby, certain of said slots being formed in the opposite edges of said plate.

4. A bale tie consisting of a plate having a series of slots, certain of said slots adapt ed to receive the ends of a wire, and a struck up tongue adapted to be bent down thereby bending one ofsaid wires into one of said slots and clipping OK the extreme end thereof, said plate being fiat after said tongue is bent in. .1

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

CHARLES E. PULVER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing'the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, I). 0.

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