US1481414A - of brooklyn - Google Patents

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Patented Jan. 22, 1924.

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SPENCER C. CARY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CARY. MAIQI'UFACTUBING CO., OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BINDER CONNECTION.

Application filed December 9, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SPENCER C. CARY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Binder Connection, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a device for connecting or joining the end portions of a binder for shipping packages.

In this art it is required that the binder be applied under tension to a package with a View to drawing the components of the package into firm relation one to the other.

Difliculty has been experienced in uniting the end portions of the binder while it is under tension for the major part of its length around the package, and it is the object of my invention to supply a connection by which the binder ends can be locked, or locked and sealed, in a simple, efficient and expeditious manner.

To these ends, the invention consists of a sleeve into which the end portions of the binder are inserted, said end portions being twisted into locking engagement with said sleeve.

Other features and advantages of the invention will appear from the annexed description taken in connection with the drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a plan view illustrating a binder with my lock, or look and seal, applied in a closed condition.

Fig. 2 is a view illustrating the method of adjusting the lock or seal prior to twisting the end portions of the binder.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the lock or seal detached from the binder.

Fig. 4 is a cross section through the'lock or seal.

A designates a binder and B is a lock or seal for the end portions of said binder. As herein shown, the binder is a wire, usually of circular cross section and of relatively small diameter. Said binder is applied under tension to the shipping package, for which purpose I have designed and useda stretcher of one form or another as disclosed in prior applicationsfor patents. By the operation of an appropriate implement, the binder is stretched for the major part of its length around a shipping package, the end portions of said binder being free or 111' Serial No. 343,554.

confined. As a matter of practical operation, the binder is of such length that when stretched the end portions will overlap to and in a preferred form, it is a double sleeve.

The seal, in one form is bent or struck up from a single piece of flat sheet metal, the same being folded r creased along the median line of the sleeve so as to produce a channel or groove 6, and the metal on the respective sides of the grooveis then doubled or folded to produce the parallel tubular members 0 (Z, the edges of the metal meeting along the line e,-and producing a double sleeve as a single unitaryf article. Said,

sleeve, or double sleeve, is provided atone end with a notch f in the metal of the tubular member 0, whereas the sleeve is provided at the other end with a notch g in the metal of the other tubular member cl. The function of said notches is to receive the bent or twisted end portions of the binder, and to retain the same in the required relation to the sleeve, i. e. to preclude the binder ends from becoming bent or deflected outwardly relatively to the shipping packages and to keep said end portions into close and substantially parallel relation to the seal.

The binder is positioned around the pack age in any desired manner or by any preferred means, and before or after placing said binder under tension, the double sleeve is slipped over and up'onthe adjacent end portions of the binder. in the practical operation of applying the binder, it is placed around the package, and certain grippers of a stretching'tool are engaged with the end portions of said binder. Prior to operating the stretching tool, the double sleeve is adjusted by inserting one end of the binder into the tubular member 0 whereas the other end portion of the binder-is inserted. into the other tubular member d, said two end portions passing in oppositedirections through the respective members of the doublesleeve. The stretching tool is now operated for placw ing the required tension upon the binder, drawing it into contact tightly with the shipping package, in fact, the binder is drawn so tightly as to embed it into the material'of said package, particularly at the cornersthereof. The effect of stretching the binder is to compress the shipping package and to draw upon the binder near the ends so as to cause said end portionsto project beyond the opposite end portions of the sleeve, see Fig. 2. The protrudingiend portions of thevbinder are free from the strain of the stretching tool, and said protruding ends are bent or twisted backwardly into locking engagement with the end portions of the sleeve. For this purpose it is preferred to use atool of acharacter disclosed in a copending application, filed even date herewith, by the operation of which. tool the two end portions of the wire are bent in opposite directions, and simultaneously, one end portion of said binder being turned in one direction, as at h, alongside the tubular member 0, whereas theother end portion of the binder is turned in an opposite direction as at z alongside -the other tubular member (Z, see Fig. 1. i In the operationof twisting the end portions 7t 2' of the binder, the loops inthe binder are forced into the notches f g, and said ends it true bent into parallel relation to the sleeve so as to lie in the plane thereof and to occupy positions close to the surfaces of the sleeve. The ends h z of the binder are thus locked with the notched end portions of the double sleeve, in a manner to minimize any displacement of the bent end portions during the operations of handling and shipping the packagerin fact, the twisted ends of said binder are out of the way and locked in. place securely so that they cannot be pulled apart, nor-is it possible to break the seal without aflording evidence of the attempt to tamper with it.

From one standpoint, it is possible to use a single sleeve of the required, length and possessing such diameter as toreceive the two ends of the binder; but the double sleeve is considered desirable for the reason that each end of the binder can be threaded or passed through said sleeve without interference with by the other end portion of said binder, the wall of the sleeve which intervenes the two tubular members acting as a separator to preclude contact and interference when applying the sleeve to the hinder, or vice versa.

It is desired to call attention to the fact that in my binder connection thereis no deformation of the sleeve or tubular element in order to lock and seal the respective end portions of the binder. On the contrary, the sleeve remains in its original form after sealing the binder, but the end portions of said binder are,by a simpleand easily performed operation, lockedto the sleeve so as to securely seal and lock the binder in order to keep the ends from pulling out of the sleeve under the tension of the binder and the strain to which said binder is subjected when the package is handled, shipped or stored.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new and desire'to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A binder seal embodying a body portion composed of a single piece of'metal i'olded upon itself and producing aplurality of non-compressible tubular members posi: tioned side by side and spaced in permanent relation one to the other by an intervening wall.

2. A- bindcr seal embodying a portion composed of a singlepiece of-metal folded upon itself and producing a plurality of. noncompressible tubularmembers and a wall intervening said tubular members andseparatingthe passages. therein, each tubular member being provided with a binder-1eceivingnotch in the wall at one end portion thereof. i

3. A, binderseal embodying a, one-piece construction comprising a plurality oinoncompressible tubular, members and a; wall intervening said tubular'members, said wall separating the passage [of one member-from the passage of the other member, one, tubular member being provided witli. a notch fin one endthereof and the, other tubular member being providedwith a notch in thatend thereof oppositev to the notch in theffirst named member.

4. A binder seal embodying a one, piece construction comprising a plurality of noncompressible tubular membersand a wall unitary with said'tubular members ,andseparating the passages therein, saidrseal being providedon the outer. faces of said tubular members with notches, one of which is at one end of one tubular member and, the other, of said notchesv being, at the opposite end, of the other tubular member.

5. In a binderseal, a, sleeve comprising a plurality of tubularmembers lying in, the same transverse plane, each tubnlar'member having a notch in one end portion thereof, and a binder the respectiveend portions of which are thrust through the tubular members and are doubled baokwardly for said doubled portions to be received within the notches whereby the binder ends are interlocked separately against rotative movement with respect to the sleeve.

6. As anew article, a, non-compressible binder seal composed of a single piece of metal bent to form a flat weband doubled to produce a plurality of tubular members the openingsinwhicli are separated by an intervening metal wall, said tulg ular memhers lying in the same transverse plane and each tubular member being provided in one end portion thereof with a binder-receiving notch.

7. As a new article, a non-compressible binder seal composed of a single piece of metal bent to form a flat web and doubled to produce a plurality of tubular members the openings in which are separated by an intervening metal wall, said tubular members being parallel to each other and said members being in a plane substantially parallel to the flat web.

8. As a new article, anon-compressible binder seal comprising a flat web and a r plurality of tubular members the openings in which are separated by an intervening wall which is independent of the fiat web, the latter constituting in part the boundary of the openings in the respective tubular members.

9. In a Binder seal, a non-compressible sleeve comprising a fiat web and a plurality of tubular members unitary with the flat web, said tubular members being each provided with a notch, the notch of one tubular member being in the end portion thereof opposite to the notch in the end portion of the other tubular member, and a binder the end portions of which are doubled into locking engagement with the notches in the tubular members of the seal, said locking engagement of the doubled binder with the tubular members operating to retain said binder against rotative movement with respect to the sleeve.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 3rd day of December, 1919.

SPENGER C. CARY.

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