US171405A

US171405A - Improvement in monuments

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Publication number: US171405A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1875-12-21
Anticipated expiration: 1892-12-21

Description

L. 3. MILLIMAN.

MONUMENT.

Patented Dec.,21 ,1f87`5.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

A VLEWISJ. MILLIMAN, OF WEST TROY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MoNuMENTs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,405, dated December 21, 1875; application filed i September 11, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS J MILLIMAN, of West Troy, county of Albany, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tombstones, Monuments, 85o., of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a vertical transverse section, ofmy im proved tombstone, monument, &c.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding` parts.

l The invention consists' of the combination, with a tombstone, monument, tablet, or other memorial stone, of a plate ot flashed glass, on

which the desired inscription or design is etched, cut, or otherwise engraved.

In the drawing, A represents a tombstone, or monument, of marble, granite, brownstone, or any other kind ot' stone used for monumental purposes.

without appropriate ornamentation, is c'ut, engraved, or etched, so that it appears with the stone as background in a tasteful and elegant manner. `A great variety of designs may thus be furnished `for memorial purposes at a cheaper rate, and the expensive carving or cutting` of the inscriptions on the stones in the usual way may, in many instances, be done away with. t l

'I am aware that a tablet for tombs wherein two plates of glass are cemented together and connected to the stone, with the words and To the stone is cemented or otherwise `applied a plate, B, of dashed glass, ot' any desired size, shape, or color, on which the inscription or other design, with or figures painted on the under side ofthe outer glass plate, is described in English lPn tent No. 12,075 of ,1848. I am also aware'that glass plates have been used for with the letters cut or molded thereon; and

these I do not claim. I am also fully aware Vcemented to the tombstone', tablet, or monument.

A tombstone, tablet, or monument having a plate of glass with inscription painted or colored thereon, either in its outer or inner face, would not be indestructible; but with my invention the inscription, being cut or engraved on a plate of flashed glass, is virtually indestructible,and is much cheaper and more fanciful and pleasing to the eye than a tourbstone or similar tablet having the letters pro duced thereon in the-usual manner.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim is The combination, with a tomb or other memorial stone, of the platel/ot' iiashed glass,

having a suitable inscription cut or otherwise engraved thereon, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. p LEWIS JOHN MILLIMANMl Witnesses: V GEORGE H. TAYLOR, F. E. THOMPSON.

the same purpose,