US294456A - Burial-casket - Google Patents

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FRANKLIN A. FIELD, or EVERETT, AsSIefNoRA To HENRY o. MILLER, oF

CAMBRIDGE, AND ALLEN F. MILLER, OF WIN BURIAL- CHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

GASKET.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,456, dated March 4, 1884.

Application lfiled. December 13, 1883. (No modell To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known j[hat I, FRANKLIN A. FIELD, of Everett, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Gaskets, of which the following description,-

in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

the employment of tacks or nails, which Awouldl be necessary to hold the were omitted.

Figure 1, in side elevation, represents a cord if the grooves casket constructed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 is a partial section thereof.

The body A of the casket, which latter may be of any suitable or usual shape or size, is provided externally with, as herein shown,

two longitudinal grooves, b. The cloth cov! ering Gis wrapped about the body part A and fastened as usual, and then the cords D, preferably from three-eighths to one-half of an inch in diameter, and preferably of silk, are drawn about the cloth-covered casket, as shown 'in the drawings, opposite the said grooves, and the ends of the cord are fastened to the said body. The grooves b receive and retain the cords and prevent them from moving vertically on the body of the casket, and avoid the driving of nails or tacks into the wood or other material of which the casket is composed. The omission of tacks from the cord enables it to stand out more prominently and uniformly than were tacks used to retain the cords in place.

' I claim- A casket-body provided externally with one or more longitudinal grooves, b, and a cloth or flexible covering applied to the said body, combined with cords applied outside the flexible covering and drawn into the Said grooves, the said cords being retained bythe said grooves from vertical movement on the said body, all substantially as and forthe purposes described. g l In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANKLIN A. FIELD.

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