US151070A

US151070A - Improvement in grave-mounds

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Publication number: US151070A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-05-19
Anticipated expiration: 1891-05-19

Description

J. R. ABRAMS.

Grave-Mounds.

Patented May 19, I874.

ATTBBNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFrcn JOSEPH ABRAMS, OF GREENVILLE, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAVE-MOUNDS.

Specification forming part of LBlZlKIS Patent No. 151,070, dated May 19, 1874; application filed March 21, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH It. ABRAMS, of Greenville,in the county of Butler, in the State of Alabama, have invented .a new and Improved Grave-Mound; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the aeeompanyin g drawings forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side elevation partly broken out. Fig. 2 is a bottom view, one elliptical ring being attached to the dome.

The invention relates to means whereby the dome of a grave-mound may be adapted to graves of different length and size by fitting thereto successively-increasing elliptical pieces, as hereinafter fully described, and

pointed out in the claim.

A represents the dome of a grave-mound, and B subjacent and elliptical supportingpieces, which are made independent and of different size, but all bearing a definite shape relatively to the said dome and to each other. I cast the dome with inner lugs a a, placed preferably, but not necessarily, at the ends, and also east each size of the elliptical pieces B separately, and with corresponding lugs b b. By means of these lugs and the clampscrews 0, several sections are attached firmly together. A party has thus only to select the particular design or pattern of dome which pleases his taste, and by connecting there with more or less of the subjacent elliptical pieces, the mound is readily adapted to the size of grave required for the deceased. 0rdinarily various sizes of dome and subjacent pieces were necessarily required in order to meet the public demand.

' My invention constitutes an improvement in grave-mounds, which is not only convenient and much less expensive to the dealer in articles of the kind, but equally so to the public.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A grave-mound, having dome A and different-sized subjacent elliptical pieces B, all

independent of each other, but relatively ar-