Abstract: A banding assembly has a needle at one end, a long thin band, and a buckle at the other end. The buckle is provided with upstanding elements on either side of a channel which receives the band. The elements have openings adapted to be engaged by a towel clamp to retain the buckle as the band is drawn through the channel and locks into position. Once locked into place, the band is trimmed, leaving a tail extending from the buckle which is bent and "snap fits" between the elements which are then crimped over the tail. In order to withstand the high force applied on the buckle by the towel clamp as the band is positioned, the buckle is secured to the end of the band by spaced elements which extend through openings in the band and are crimped toward each other. Extending from the end of the band are spaced tabs which are bent around the rear edge of the buckle. The recess between the tabs preferrably forms one of the element receiving openings.

Abstract: A corn holder comprises a first tubular element which is telescopic with respect to a second tubular element. Each tubular element includes a facing end with an outwardly projecting corn piercable tine and each includes a cavity in the facing end for receiving tine of the other cavity when the two tubular elements are telescopically engaged. The tines are advantageously shaped so that they occupy a portion of a complete tube for example a semi-cylindrical shape with the dimensions of the tine being such that the interengagement of the two tine elements is sufficiently snug so that they remain frictionally interengaged. The tines may be of varying shape and configuration and may even be solid rod elements which fit into receiving cylindrical recesses of the opposite tubular member.