US1020169A - Casket-canopy. - Google Patents

Description

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GASKET cANo'PY.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2, 1910.

Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

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BENJAMIN C. WALLACE, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

GASKET-CANOPY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

Application filed March 2, 1910. Serial No. 546,782.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN C. VAL- LAon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casket Canopies; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in funeral paraphernalia and particularly to canopies for the caskets, the object of the invention being to produce a canopy to cover caskets which will be artistic and pretty and at the same time collapsible and capable of being unfolded and put up or taken down and folded in a few seconds, this being the advantage gained over the commonly used present day canopies which are complicated and of many parts and require from fifteen minutes upward of time to set up or take down.

A further object of the present invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposes for which it is designed.

These objects, I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Figure 1 is an outline view of the upper portion of the canopy as it appears in open position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the folding skeleton or frame of the can opy as it appears in open position. Fig. is a rear elevation of the same in folded position. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on a line wof Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a frag-- mentary view of a frame 3 showing a wrapping tape thereon. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view of a hanging ring showing the method of securing supporting tapes thereon.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings 1 and 2 designate the main bars or beams of the frames which are hinged together in parallel relation and each has a projecting wire frame 3 having their ends bent as at Il: and fitting into grooves 5 in the members 1 and 2 and secured there by staples or other fastening means G. Each of the frames 3 are wound or bound with a soft tape 7 to prevent frictional wear and to permit the drapery silk 8 to be sewed or secured thereto.

Secured on each corner of each frame 3 as at 9 and projecting thro-ugh a ring 10 to the opposite corner of the other frame 3 is a supporting tape 11 while 12 is a supporting tape secured to both frames 1 and 2 at each end and passing also through the ring 10, such tape 12 crossing each other and forming an intervening free space at 13 to permit the members 1 and 2 to fold; and the lengths also of the tapes 1l, and l2 are such as to permit the members 3 to fold to a completed folded position as shown in Fig. 3.

All the members 1'1 and 12 are bound firmly together just beneath the ring 10 by a cord 14; thus holding the ring 10 in a rigid fixed position, hence to unfold the canopy the operator grasps said ring and the skele ton is pulled and opens into open position whereas to fold it again the ring 10 is left loose and the frame folded to closed posi'- tion.

The drapery 8 is draped over the skeleton or frame in any desired artistic manner.

From the foregoing description it. will be readily seen that I have produced silch a device as substantially fulfils the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

wWhile this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such devia tions from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from t-he spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A casket canopy comprising two members hinged together in parallel relation, a projecting rectangular frame on each of said members, a tape extending from each end of each said parallel members to the oppo site endI of its adjacent member, a tape extending from each outer corner of each of In testimony whereof I affix my signature sald rectangular Jframes to the opposlte cor- 1n presence of two Wltnesses. ner of lts adjacent frame, all of sald tapes passing through a common ring, means BENJAMIN C WALLACE' binding all of said tapes together just below Witnesses:

said ring, and a canopy draped over said PERCY S. WEBSTER,

tapes and frames. J osHUA B. WEBSTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for -ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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