US1369985A

US1369985A - Concrete burial-vault

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Publication number: US1369985A
Application number: US353249A
Authority: US
Inventors: John M Schenk; Ella M Schenk
Original assignee: ELLA M SCHENK; JOHN M SCHENK
Current assignee: ELLA M SCHENK; JOHN M SCHENK
Priority date: 1920-01-22
Filing date: 1920-01-22
Publication date: 1921-03-01
Anticipated expiration: 1938-03-01

Description

J. M,/scHENK, nEc'n.

E. M. SCHENK, ADMINISTRATRIX.

CONCRETE BURIAL VAULTl APPLICATION FILED JAN.22, |920.

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JOHN M. SCHENK, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.; ELLA M. SCHENK, ADMINISTRA'IRIX 0F SAID .FHN T. SCHENK, DECEASED, ASSIGNOR T0 ELLA M. SCHENK, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

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Patented Mar. i, i921.

Application flied January 22, 3920. Serial No. 353,249.

improvement is to provide, in a reinforcedconcrete vault or casket, having an imperforatebody and cover, a joint connection therefor which will permit and insure of hermetically sealing them together.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l1 is a perspectlve view of a casket ofthe class described, one end. being shown in cross-section, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view showing my improved joint-connection between the upper part of the casket and the de ending part of the cover.

gimilar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the' several VIEWS.

The hollow imperforate body l of the casket or vault, is open at the top, and isv formed of concrete molded'about a reticulated reinforcement 2 of the same shape. Surrounding said body and below its upper edge, an integral rib extends from its outside wall at 3', with its outer part extended rib 3. The imperforate cover 6 is also made of concrete molded upon a shaped' reticulated reinforcement 7, the cover being somewhat arched in form and having depending edge-parts 8 also outwardly sloped at a slight angle from the vertical so as to inclose in parallel, the raised outer part 5` while depending into-the'trough 4in said rib 3, when the cover .is in place.`

5.0 The trough 4 is of considerably greater horizontal Width than the depending part 8 of the cover, permitting the reception of thek requisite amount of cement or hermetically sealing material 9. l

When the joint connection of the casket is thus hermetically sealed, as shown in said Fig. 2, and the casket buried in the ground in a substantially horizontal position, ground water cannot percolate into .the casket by seepage through the cementing material 9 or any fortultous cracks 0r gaps therein.

This-is due to the provision of the ledge 5. elevated above the rib 3.

' If the upper edge of the ledge 5 were at` 'the same level as the upper edge of the raised part of the rib 3, accidental cracks in the cement 9 would permit moisture to percolate into the casket about said ledge 5. The narrow interspace 10 between the opposed parallel surfaces of the ledge 5 and the cover part 8 above the cement 9 is nevertheless wide enough to prevent movement of moisture upwardly therethrough by capillary attraction, while said ledge 5 prevents a transfer of moisture-from said interspace thereover, due to the pressure of air under superincumbent cover.

Because of the considerable elevation of the ledge 5 above the trough-bottom '4, the depending part 8 of said cover 6 cannot easily become displaced, even when the ,casket may not be perfectly level, or in case of itsendwise subsidence. This'will keep the relation of the parts the same as above described so that the joint therebetween will nevertheless fail to transmit moisture into the casket. l

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

In combination, an open top imper-forate hollowconcrete container, a hollowl open bottom imperforate cover for said container, with outwardly sloping depending rim, said container having a clrcumferential ing` upwardly troughed with its outer rim positioned below the level of the rim ofthe container, the outer wall ofthe rim of the container being outwardly sloped, the rim ledge positioned below its rim, the ledge beof the cover being seated in the trough of the ledge, spaced therefrom, and impervious sealingLmeans in said trough embedding the rim of the cover therein only to the level of 5 the upper edge of the rim of the ledge, with the interspace of the cover rim and the container rim unfilled above said sealingmeans and being both relatively long and Wide enough to prevent seepage of Huid therethrough by capillary attraction. 10

Signed at laterloo, Iowa, this 26th day of December, 1919.

JOHN M. SCHENK.