US1132088A - Mausoleum. - Google Patents

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W. S. HALLADAY 62; J. SGHAEFER.

MAUSOLEUM.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.21, 1913.

1,1 32,088. Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

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WILLIAM S. HALLADAY AND JACOB SGHAEFER, 0F IVHLVTAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

MAUSOLEUM.

Application filed March 21, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, \FVILLIAM S. HALLA- DAY and JACOB SCHAEFER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Mausoleums, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a system for conducting away the gases and slushes from the crypts of a mausoleum and decomposing the slushes and discharging the gases therefrom and the gases direct from the crypts into a purifier to be freed from all contamination and then liberating them into the atmosphere.

It has become a more or less general practice, instead of burying dead bodies underground, to provide a mausoleum in which any number of separate crypts are formed for containing dead bodies, these crypts being adapted to be hermetically sealed. Crypts thus sealed must be constructed in a manner to permit the gases and slushes to be cared for without allowing their escape from one crypt to another or to other parts of the building and the present invention has the object in view of accomplishing this purpose by a system which will be largely automatic in its operation.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the mausoleum as herein claimed and all equivalents.

Referring to the accompanying drawings in which like characters of reference indicate the same parts in difierent views Figure 1 is an elevation of a piping system for mausoleums in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the crypt drain outlet; Fig. 3 is a similar View showing a crypt vent outlet; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the slush decomposer and its pit.

in these drawings 10 indicates a series of crypts, preferably built with walls of cement and these crypts are arranged in series of adjoining tiers along corridors, there being narrow aisles back of the crypts in which is contained the piping system of this invention. At the upper wall of each crypt there is a vent pipe 11 leading out Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

Serial No. 755,936.

through the wall into the aisle, as shown in Fig. 3, where it is connected to a vertical pipe 12 by means of suitable pipe connections including a ball check valve 13 and a union 1%. All of the vent pipes of the crypts in each tier are connected to the same vertical pipe 12 in this manner and the several vertical pipes 12 for the different tiers of crypts connect with a common main gas pipe 15 Wl'llOl'l leads to a gas purifier of any desirable construction, not shown, and is provided with a gate valve 16 and a pressure gage 17.

At the bottom wall of each crypt there is a drain pipe 18 leading out therethrough to the aisle, as shown in Fig. 2, and the drain pipes 18 for all of the crypts of each tier have suitable pipe connections with a vertical pipe 19 including a reducing T 20, a gate valve 21 and a union 22. All of the drain pipes of the crypts of each tier are connected to the same vertical pipe 19 in this manner and these vertical pipes 19 connect with an inclined main slush pipe 23 discharging through a pipe connection 2 1 into a slush decomposer 25 contained in a sealed pit 26, preferably beneath the foundation of the building. The pipe connection 24 from the main slush pipe 23 to the slush decomposer 25 contains a hand valve 27 and the slush decomposer may be of any desirable construction for treating the slush with acids to decompose it. The gases resulting from this decomposition return through the pipe connection 24 through the main slush pipe 23 to a vertical pipe 28 which connects the main slush pipe 23 with the main gas pipe 15 and contains a ball check valve 29 to prevent a return flow of gas in the event of a back pressure. The reduced ends of the reducing Ts 20 in the pipe connections for the drain pipes are provided with removable plugs 30 for cleaning such pipe connections and the vertical pipes 19 at the T connections at their upper ends have similar screw plugs 31 to permit of their being cleaned if necessary.

In operation the vent connection with each crypt is always available for use upon the creation of a slight pressure within the crypt, the ball check valves 13 responding to a very slight pressure and the valve 16 being normally open and only closed at times when it is necessary to disconnect the gas purifier. Thus the usual increase in gas pressure within a crypt after it has been sealed permits the gas from the crypt to dis charge through the gas purifier without creating a pressure within the crypt liable to force a way through the sealed closure thereof into the building. The gate valves 21 of the unoccupied crypts are kept closed, but after a body has been placed within the crypt this valve is opened and slushes from the crypt are then free to drain out through the pipe connections into the slush decomposer where it is acted upon by the acids and converted into gas which returns through the piping system and by way of the pipe 28 through the check valve 29 to the main gas pipe 15 where it is carried along with the gases direct from the crypts to the gas purifier.

Inasmuch as the piping system is entirely exposed within the aisle all parts thereof are readily accessible for cleaning and repairs when necessary.

lVhat we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A mausoleum, comprising a tier of crypts with an aisle in the rear thereof, vent pipes and drain pipes passing through the walls of the crypts into the aisle, an exposed gas pipe within the aisle with which the vent pipes connect, check valves in the exposed connections between the vent pipes and the gas pipe, an exposed slush pipe within the aisle connected with the drain pipes, hand valves in the exposed connections between the drain pipes and the slush pipe, a slush decomposer into which the slush pipe discharges, and an exposed valved pipe connecting the slush pipe with the gas pipe.

In testimony whereof, we aiiix our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM S. HALLADAY. JACOB SCHAEFER.

Witnesses:

R. S. C. CALDWELL, KATHERINE HOLT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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