US1244157A - Package-tie. - Google Patents

Description

E. WRIGHT.

PACKAGE TIE-r APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10. 1916-- 1,s2%%,157. Paten ted Oct. 23,1917.

ERNEST WRIGHT, OF ARCH CREEK, FLORIDA.

PACKAGE-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Oct. 23, 1917.

Application filed March 10, 1916. Serial No. 83,386.

This invention relates to tying devices and s more particularly to that type employed in the tying of packages, bundles, sacks and the like, and is so constructed to make the same adaptable to hold the twine around the packages and obviate the necessity of the tying of such twine; and a further object is to provide a device of this character which will be simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture and which may be readily attached to or detached from a package.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists in the nove features, details of construction and combination of parts which will hereinafter be more fully set forth, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the appended claim.

Figure 1 is a top plan illustrating the application of my improved tying device;

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective of the tying device removed from the package;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section showing the application of the tying device; and

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section showing the application of the tying device.

Referring more particularly to the accompanying drawing, in which like characters of reference refer to corresponding parts in the several views, 5 designates the tying device which is preferably constructed of a thin blank of sheet metal, embodying a body portion 6 of substantially rectangular configuration and formed with a longitudinally disposed slot 7, the portion of the metal forming the slot 7 being struck up beyond the plane of the body portion to form a resilient tongue member 8. One end of the body portion is provided with a keeper 9, said keeper being bent upon the body portion and reposing in contact and upon the surface of the tongue member 8 whereas to provide a loop for preventing the displacement of the tying element 10 from said tying device 5. In other words, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, in the application of this tying device the tying member 10 is brought under the keeper 9 and thence around and over the curved longitudinal edge 11 of the body portion and thence over the outer transverse extent of the keeper 9, and thence in the V-shaped slot 13, formed in a transverse line with the curved longitudinal edge 11 of the body portion, and the terminal of the string is thence inserted in the obliquely arranged slot lt and thereby holding one of the ends of the tying member in assembled or tying position with relation to the package or bundle to be tied. This V-shaped slot 13 is formed by curving one of the longitudinal edges of the body member at the point of intersection of the tongue member 9 therewith and the said slot is further formed by slightly flaring the said longitudinal edge of the body portion at a point into the keeper 9. The opposite end of the body portion 6 of the tying device, and designated by the character 15, is provided with a pair of notches 16 and 17 each of which is arranged in diverging relation one to the other and opening out through the opposite longitudinal edges of the body portion, and it will be apparent that the notch 16 is of a greater depth than is the notch 17 whereby the latter mentioned notch will accommodate the insertion and holding of one of the terminals of the tying member, such terminal being indicated by the character 18.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of construction and of the method of operation of the invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates, and

while I have described the principles of operation of the invention, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is mere y illustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as are within the scope of the claim appended thereto.

I claim:

A device of the character set forth comprising a single blank of sheet metal providing a body portion of substantially rectangular configuration, a resilient tongue struck up from the body portion and disposed longitudinally thereof, a keeper having an obliquely arranged slot opening out to one side of said tongue, said keeper being provided at one end of the body portion andreposing upon said tongue, the body 2 n. l l i r H l r 1,3 5?-/. or Mr w o N portion at the point of intersection of the t-herein, theoppositeend ofthe tying memkeeper therewith beingprovided with a .\lher being, permanently secured in tying poshaped slot opening out at one si'd'e'thereo'f, sitio'n by" the passing of the same around and formed by the curving of one lODgiLLKliTI; said keeper and through the V-shaped slot nal edge of the tongue and the flaring.ojLwfornied in the body portion thence disposed j lg l iQ g ;Qf ;g j b y.,;; theseid: -,W; .th 1mt e obliquely al'lflngtd QtQi Said 2% body portion at a pointrearwardly oi the v tongue substantially as and for the purpose formation of the tongue-thereWi-th being-- specified-. iix

provided ith a pair of oppositely disposed In testimony whereof I ai'hX my signature notches opening out througl'i the opposite in presence of two Witnesses. longitudinal edges'of the body-portiom-one ERNEST WVBJGI-l'l.

of said'notches beingof greater depth'than I Witnesses: 11 theotherofsaid notches to permit of the G; WVrTI IoMPso'N, 5 tying member being insertedand retained GrR'KnpCrI-n" i Copies of this 'p atentvma'y 'be ohtai'ned for-five cents each, by addressing th'e flommissioner of -iPa'terits,

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