Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — A USEFUL INVENTION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A USEFUL INVENTION.

Labor Saved by the New Method of Fastening Boxes. Julius J. Wolf, of Kansas City, has devised a box strap which Ims some features of Interest to shippers whoso goods are packed in boxes requiring, a strap strengthening. The inventor

claims that It combines strength and convenience with a saving of labor. The new box strap is built on the barbed-wire plan and it dispenses with the use of nails. Two wires are twisted together, and at the proper Intervals a wire nail is twisted in the wires. The nail it cut In arrow-headed form, so that the barbs catch in the board like a fish hook and refuse to come out without tearing away a large fragment of the surrounding wood. The best point about the new strap, however, lies In the saving of labor

while putting It on the box. There is no worry with nails- The workman simply drives in the first barb-nail, then, as he wraps the wire around the box, strikes a single blow on the head of the barb-nail and the operation Is complete.

A BOX WITHOUT NAILS.

THE PATENT STRAP.