US116964A - Improvement in cotton-bale ties - Google Patents

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Ch'ls ,G JGhnS GIL Open Slot Tie .116964 E EWE JUL 11 1.871

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. JOHNSEN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. JoHNsEN, of the city of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and the State of Louisiana, have invented an Improvement in Open-Slot Ties for Cotton-Baies, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to the construction of open-slot ties; and my improvement consists in providing the slot into which the hoop is last i11- serted with a projection or point, hereinafter more fully described, for the purpose of preventing such hoop or clasp from being thrown out of the slot.

Figure l represents a plan of a tie embracing my improvement, the oblate hoop A being seated in its closed slot F, and the hook B being detached, and the open slot C havin g its form plainly shown. Fig. 2 shows a like view, except that the clasp or hook is in its proper seat in the open slot C, and also, by dotted lines, the hoop B is shown as it appears when being inserted in that slot. Figx shows a side view of the tie, and chain attached to it, as it would appear upon the bale.

Now it will appear from Fig. 1 that the slot C would be ofthe same form as slot F but for the cutting out ofthe block a piece in the form of a parallelogram, producing the opening` between d and e in the outside, and extending inwardly to the point c, and the result is the slot C of the peculiar form shown, and the production of the point c itself, which is the improvement I now claim.

The use of the point c needs but little explanation. When the oblate hoop B is upon its proper seat, as shown in-Fig. 2, and is kept upon it, the body of the block prevents its moving in one direction while the point e prevents its moving the other way, and out ofthe slot. But any powerful compression of the bale by forces eX- erted in varying directions might raise the hoop B out of its seat and throw it over the point e, and out of the slot G, but for the point c, which would then come into action. For when such compression takes place, and the hoop B is forced out of its seat upward toward the other side of the slot, it is arrested by the point c before it gets high enough to pass over the point e, and

even in that position it would be impossible for the hoop to get out oi" the slot without mali-ing so great a change in its direction, as is shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, which it could not do while the rope or band around the bale was fast to the same.

I claim as my invention- The cotton-bale tie herein described, provided with the closed slot F and open slot C, having the projections e and c, and the strengtheningbar D, when all are constructed and arranged as shown, for the purpose set forth.

GHAS. G. J OHNSEN.

lVitnesses CH. FE. KRULL, T. W. TEELEOED.

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