US760428A - Tie-fastener for packages. - Google Patents

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No 760,428- PATENTED MAY 24,1904. W. A. GROSS.

TIE FASTENER FOR PACKAGES.

APPLICATION FILED mo. 22. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM A. CROSS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS L. VESSEY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

TlE-FASTENER FOR PACKAGES- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 760,428, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed Decemb r 22,1902. Serial No. 136,295. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. Cnoss, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tie-Fasteners for Packages, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to that class of ties or fasteners for holding the ends of a cord used in tying up packages of paper and the like, and has for its object to provide a simple, durable, and efficient tie-fastener in which convenience is afforded for drawing the cord tightly around the package and for firmly securing the free end of the cord in the tying operation in a rapid and easy manner, all as will hereinafter more fully appear and be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrative of the present invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the present invention, illustrating the relative position of the parts during the tightening of the cord around the pack age just previous to securing the free end of such cord in the cord-gripping slot of the tieplate; Fig. 2, a similar view illustrating the parts in a completely-fastened condition; Fig. 3, an enlarged detail elevation of the present tie or fastener plate.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts in the different views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the cord or string by which the package or bundle is tied up.

2 is the tie or fastener plate of a flat and substantially rectangular form, the corners of which are preferably rounded, as shown in the drawings.

3 is an attaching-orifice formed in the plate 2, near one end of the same, for the passage and attachment of one end of the cord 1, by which the package is tied up.

1 represents counterpart recesses at opposite sides of the plate 2 and adjacent to the aforesaid orifice 3. Such recesses form aflat head at one end of the plate, around the undercut neck of which a loop at one end of the mid-length of the tie-plate 2, the entrancepassage to which is preferably formed by an oblique slot 6, extending from the orifice 5 to one side of the tie-plate.

7 is a tapering gripping-slot formed longitudinally in the end of the tie plate opposite to the attaching-orifice 3 and in which the free end of the attaching-cord 1 is forcibly drawn by hand, so as to be firmly held in the final fastening of the cord around a package or bundle.

In a practical use of the present invention the cord 1, carrying at one end the tie-plate 2, is looped around the package in the manner shown or in any other usual and suitable manner, after which the looseend of the cord is placed in the open-sided orifice 5, the tie-plate being turned on its edge, as shown in Fig. 1, to facilitate such insertion. By pulling upon the free end of the cord, with the margin of the orifice 5 forming a bearing, the operator is enabled to tighten the cord around the package to any required extent, after which the free end of the cord is forcibly drawn into the tapering gripping-slot 7 and the tie-plate turned flatwise upon the package to complete the fastening operation.

With the present improved construction the open-sided orifice 5 affords a ready means whereby a series of the tie-fasteners, with their attached cords, can be hung upon a supporting-wire for ready and convenient access and use.

Having thus fully described my said invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A tie-fastener, comprising an oblong plate member, having a cord-attaching orifice at one end, a longitudinal wedge-shaped engaging recess at the other end, and an oblique bearing recess arranged intermediate the length of the plate and opening through one side of the same, for the purpose set forth.

2. A tiefastener, comprising an oblong plate member, having a flat head at one end Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 22d day of T and a cord-attaching orifice in said head, a lon- November, 1902. gitndinal Wedge-shaped recess at the other WILLIAM A CROSS end, and an oblique bearing-recess alranged 5 intermediate the length of the plate and open- Witnesses:

ing through one side of the same, for the pur- ROBERT BURNS,

pose set forth. HENRY A. Now.

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