US66087A - Improvement in bale-band tighteneb - Google Patents

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PLATT C. LINGERSOLL, '0F GREENPOINT, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 -HIMSELF i i AND H. F. DOUGHERTY, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters .Patent No. 66,087,l dated June 25, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALB-BAND TIGHTENER.

Be it known that LPLATT C. INGERSYOLL, of Greenpoint, i-n the county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Bale-Band Tightener and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaecompanying drawings, making a portion of this specification,- in which- I Figure 1 is a plan or top view of a band-tightener constructed according to my invention.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same. i

Similar. letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

This invention is designed as a substitute lfor the hand-spike commonly employed 'in tightening the rope bands of cotton and other bales; and it .consists in a'lever furnished at one end with two clamping links or grippers, which operate to clasp the end of the band and enable the same to be drawn up to-any desired degree of' tightness, wherebytthe inconvenience and lossl of time necessitated by winding the end of the band upon the handspike, as in the common method of tightening, is completely ob viated.

To enable othersto understand the constrnctioniand operation of m'yinvention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings. 4

A represents a lever which may be of wood, and of any desired o1' suitable length, and which has one of 4its ends made Atapering as shown at a. `Upon one side of this tapered end 'ofthe lever A is secured a at metal plate, ,the outer extremity of which projects beyondthe extremity of the lever, and is made toothed or serrated, as shown more plainly in fig. 1, in order that'it may be made to catch when desiredl in the side ofthe bale during Athe operation .of tightening the bands' thereon, as willbe hereinafter further set forth. B represents a clamping-link or gripper, the inner end of which is pivoted to the lever A, near the end a thereof, by means i of a transverse pin, c. Another clamping-link or gripper is shown at C, and in like manner pivoted to the lever A by a similar transverse pin, d, but nearer the middle portion thereof than the gripper B, and at a suitable distance from the said gripper, the outermost end or portion ofthe gripper 'C being made narrower than the corresponding end of the other gripper in order that when the two grippers are broughtinto a position transverse to each other, as shown. in `tho drawings, the said outer portion of the gripper VC will pass. through the corresponding portion of the other gripper B. The band being passed around the bale in the'usual o1' in any "suitable manner, the free end thereof is rst passed through both of the grippers B C, and then back over the outer end of the gripper C, and under that of the gripper B, or, in other words, between the outer ends of the.

said grippers, in such inanner that when a strain is exerted upon the band, a portion of which is shown in red outline in g. 1, the said en ds of' the grippers will be drawn toward each other and clamp the band between them with a degree of pressure proportioned to the strain exerted upon the band; the said strain being secured by first placing the end a of the lever either under the lower edge of the bale or catching. the tooth or serrated extremity thereof into the side of the said bale as hereinbefore mentioned, and then forcing downward the opposite or long arm of the lever, so that by these means the band may be tightly secured upon the lever during the operation of tightening the band, thus enabling the said operation to be performed without the trouble and loss of time involved in securing the end of the band to the hand-spike in the ordinary manner of tightening the band.

What IY claim asv new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is--A The clamping-links or grippers B C, in combination with each otherand with the lever A, substantially :is herein set forth for the purpose specified. A Y

PLATT C. INGERSOLL.

Witnesses J. W. Goonies, Gro; W. REED.

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