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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
THOMAS A. ANDREWS AND ALFRED G. EDWARDS, OF GAINESVILLE,
TEXAS.
IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,67S, dated January 29, 1878; application filed
November 30, 1877.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, THos. A. ANDREWS
and ALFRED G. EDWARDS, of Gainesville, in
the county of Cooke and State of Texas, have
invented a new and Improved Bale-Tie, of
which the following is a specification:
The invention will first be described in con-
nection with the drawings, and then pointed
out in the claim.
In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 rep-
resents a plan view of our improved bale-tie.
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same,
taken on the line x x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a
cross-section on the line y y of Fig. 1.
Similar letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts.
A is an oblong plate, open in the center, and
having the appearance of the frame of an or-
dinary buckle. The side bars a of the buckle-
frame A are bent so as to raise the end bar a',
for securing thereto the end B of the bale-
band in a position sufficiently high to allow
of the two ends of the bale-band lapping each
other, as shown in Fig. 2. The other end bar,
a2, of the buckle-frame is made broad, and
sunk or recessed, as shown in Fig. 3, for the
reception of the free end B' of the bale-band,
which latter is provided with central slots or
perforations b; made at intervals, for adjust-
ment.
On the middle of the end bar a2 of the frame
A, and formed in one piece with it, is thecatch a3, projecting from the end bar a2 on the
whole breadth thereof, and reaching beyond
it so far as about half of the opening in the
frame A, where its upper straight surface ter-
minates at its forward end with an edge, the
point of the catch a3 being wedge-shaped, as
shown in Fig. 2. The under side of the catch
a" is cut away sufficiently at c to give room
between the same and the bottom of the recess
in the end a2 of the frame for the thickness of
the bale-band.
The bale-band, secured with one end to the
buckle, having been placed around the bale
the free end B' is inserted over the catch a
through the opening in theframe A, and slipped
on the catch to lodge in the recess of the end
a& of the frame, the catch a3 entering one of
the slots b in the band in the position shown in
the drawing. The bale is allowed to expand
and the tie is tightened, with its ends B B
firmly secured together.
Having thus described our invention, we
claim as new and desire to secure by Letters
Patent-
A bale-tie whose frame A is provided with an
end bar, a, having wedge-shaped catch a3, cut
away at c, as and for the purpose specified.
THOS. A. ANDREWS.
ALFRED G. EDWARDS.
Witnesses:
B. D. DAvIDsoN,
W. L. BLANTox.
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Andrews, Thomas S. Improvement in Bale-Ties, patent, January 29, 1878; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth166754/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.