US242418A - Monument - Google Patents

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MONUMENT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 242,418, dated May 31, 1881.

Application filed August 3, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL ScHUYLER, of Bridgeport, in the count y of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements-in Monuments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture ot' monuments by the employment of ornamental metal tables, emblems, bas-reliefs, medallions, &c., in connection therewith, either for the purpose ot' placing on the monuments additional dates of deaths, dac., in a neat and reliable manner, Without cutting them into thc stone, or of restoring the inscriptions and strengthening` and embellishing old and dilapidated monuments.

The invention consists of a stone monument to which one or more metallic tablets are attached in such a manner that the connection is not Visible, it being obtained by casting the tablet around the heads of split spring-bolts having notched ends, and inserting the bolts into socket-holes which increase in width toward their rear ends and are iilled with soft cement, which, on hardening, forms a reliable and compact connection of the spring-bolts with the stone.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a perspective View of a monument with my improved metallic tablet. Fig. 2 isa detail vertical transverse section,showing the connection ot' thc tablet with the monument, and Fig. 3 is a detail side View of the springbolt detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a stone monument of any suitable size and shape. To one or more sides of the same are applied ornamental tablets B, which are preferably made of zinc or other white metal, the exterior surface of Which has been grained by the sandblast, or otherwise, so as to resemble in appearance the grain ofthe stone. The metallic tablet B is attached to the stone monumentin such a manner that the means by which it is connected are not visibleV from the outside, they being entirely covered by the tablet. This connection is obtained by the use of one or more split spring-bolts, C, which are secured to the tablet by casting it around the (No model.)

annularly-grooved or notched heads a ofthe same, as shown in Fig. 2. The outer ends ot' the spring-bolts C are provided with notches, so that the soft cement, which is placed into the socket-holes of the monument, is forced in between the prongs and around the recessed ends of the same. The socket-holes are made ot' the usual haring or tapering shape, increasing in width from the mouth to the rear end, as is usual in setting keys or Wedges into stones, .the bolts being inserted into the socketholes by rst compressing the spring-prongs so as to introduce them into the mouths ot' the socket-holes, and, nally, by pressing them back into the soft cement in the holes. When the cement in the socket-holes has properly hardened a very reliable and entirely invisible connection ofthe tablet with the monument is obtained.

The tablet may also be used formural decorations of all kinds, and also for applying small zinc and other metallic ornaments to stone monuments of anykind.

By using two tablets at opposite sides ot' the stones an old and broken monument may be repaired in a very neat and durable manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. As an improvement in stone monuments, the combination, with a stone monument, of a metallic tablet, and of bolts whereby the tablet is connected to the stone, said bolts being so secured to the tablet as to be covered thereby when it is applied to thel stone, substantially as set forth.

2. In a stone monument, the combination of a stone monument, A, with a metallic tablet, B, and split spring-bolts C, the latter being secured to the tablet and retained by a cement tillin g in the tapering socket-holes of the monument, substantially as described.

3. For fastening metallic tablets to monuments, a spring-bolt having an. annular head IOO to stone monuments, consisting in securing the heads of the connecting spring-bolts to the tablet, inserting the springbolts into the socket-holes of the monument and pressing them back into the soft cement filling of the holes, and allowing the cement to harden and thus retain the spring-boltsin the socket-holes, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in pres- 1o ence of two witnesses, this 29th day of July,

DANIEL SGHUYLER. Witnesses toBERT E. PARSONS, EDWARD B. KUNKELMAN.

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