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Patented April 25, 1905.
UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN C. JENKINS, OF TERRELL, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO
W. H. FLOWERS, OF TERRELL, TEXAS
- BALE-TIE BUCKLE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,471, dated April 25, 1905.
Application filed July 6, 1904. Serial No, 215,479.To ril who), tt 7,flb/ cormcern: :
Be it known that I, JOHN C. JENKINS, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Terrell,
in the county of Kaufman and State of Texas,
have invented new and useful Improvements
in Bale-Tie Buckles, of which the following
is a specification.
My invention relates to bale-ties, more par-
ticularly bale-tie buckles; and it consists in
the peculiar and advantageous buckle herein-
after described, and particularly pointed out
in the claim appended. .
In the accompanying drawings, forming
part of this specification, Figure 1 is a section
taken through a bale equipped with my novel
buckle and the band used in connection there-
with and illustrating the buckle in longitudi-
nal section. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of
the buckle per se; and Fig. 3 is a section of
the buckle,taken in the plane indicated by the
line 3 3 of Fig. 1.
Similar letters designate corresponding
parts in all of the views of the drawings, re-
ferring to which
A is a bale of cotton or other material.
B is a sheet-metal band passed around the
bale in the ordinary well-known manner and
having the usual bights a b at its ends, and C
is my novel buckle. The said buckle is formed
of one piece of rolled iron or other material
suitable to the purpose; and it comprises a
rectangular frame having end bars c, which
are inclined downwardly at one end, as indi-
cated by c', and side bars d e and arms .f g,
extending inwardly from the end bars c of
the frame, as best shown in Fig. 2. The
frame-bar e is disposed obliquely-i. e., is in-
clined downwardly and outwardly with refer-
ence to the remainder of the frame, which is
flat, for a purpose presently set forth. The
arm.f of the frame is disposed in the same
horizontal plane as the bar d and the major
portion of the bars C; but the arm g is in-
clined upwardly from the adjacent bar c, as
best shown in Fig. 3.
In the practical use of my novel buckle the
bight a of the band B is placed in engage-
ment with the frame-bar d after the manner
shown in Fig. 1, and the bight b is loopedover the arms f g and arranged so that its 50
free portion bb bears on the inner upper cor-
ner of the depressed frame-bar e. The up-
ward inclination of the arm g of the buckle
obviously facilitates placing of the bight b in
engagement with the arms f g, as does also 55
the arrangement of the bar e in a depressed
position relative to the remainder of the
buckle.
In virtue of all of the buckle-frame except
the depressed ends c' and bar e being straight 6o
and the said ends c' and bar e being disposed
at an obtuse angle to the straight portion it
will be observed that while the said ends c'
and bar e are adapted to sink into a bale of
cotton and prevent slipping of the buckle the 65
straight part is adapted to rest flat against
the bale; and thereby assure the free portions
of the band-bights ca and b being held under
pressure between the buckle and the bale, and
hence against slipping. 70
In addition to the practical advantages
which I have ascribed to my novel buckle it
will be observed that the same by reason of
its rectangular frame is very strong, and may
therefore be made lighter than many of the 75
buckles extant, also that the buckle may be
produced quite as cheaply and easily as the
ordinary buckles.
I am well aware that it is old in bale-ties to
form a buckle of a rectangular plate of iron So
through which a slot is made for receiving
the fixed end of an iron strip and to provide
in a rectangular opening in the said plate a
transverse bar which is divided near one end
and bent slightly outward, permitting suffi- 85
cient space in the opening to allow the other
end of the strip to be bent and passed in over
the bar, on the end of which bar a curved in-
cline is formed, so that when the pressure is
brought on the strip the said curved incline 90
places the strip in its proper position and
bearing in the transverse divided bar. I
therefore make no claim to this construction.
. Having described my invention, what I
claim is- 95
The herein-described bale-tie buckle com-
prising a frame made up of end bars c having
ends c', a side bar d, and a side bar e carried25
3045
No. 788,471.
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Jenkins, John C. & Flowers, W. H. Bale Tie Buckle, patent, April 25, 1905; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512803/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.