Power-driven wire tying mechanism

Claim 1

In a power-driven wire tying mechanism, the combination comprising: a housing, handles or means to hold said housing, means to hold a coil or source of tie wire consisting of a spool adapter to secure a coil of tie wire in such a manner as to cause it to rotate axially as required by the mechanism, means to separate certain component parts of said wire tying mechanism to accommodate the insertion of the coil of wire, means to insure the proper orientation of these component parts upon reassembly, power means consisting of an arrangement of cams and gears to cause extensible arms to move circumferentially and meet, means to give said extensible arms the capability for gripping and pulling the tie wire thereby encircling an object or objects with said tie wire, means to securely hold the ends of said tie wire after it has encircled said object or objects, power means consisting of an arrangement of cams and gears to twist or otherwise bind together both endS of said tie wire that is encircling said object or objects, power means consisting of a system of levers and links to mechanically sever that end of said tie wire which is still attached to said coil of tie wire, power means through an arrangement of cams and levers to release both ends of said tie wire that is encircling said object or objects, means to manually start or stop the operation of said wire tying mechanism at any instant during the operating cycle, means to maintain the component parts of the wire tying mechanism in the proper orientation at all times during the cycle even when the cycle is interrupted at any instant, means to automatically stop the operation of said wire tying mechanism at the end of a completed operating cycle to prevent recycling, and means to safeguard the operator and to protect the exposed moving parts of said wire tying mechanism from damage.