US321280A

US321280A - Coffin

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Publication number: US321280A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-06-30
Anticipated expiration: 1902-06-30

Description

S. COOMBE.

(No Mode.)

GOFPIN.

No. 321,280. Patented June 30, 1885.

UNITED 'STATES Parana @rtree SAMUEL COOMBE, OF POULTNEY, VERMONT.

COFFIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,280, dated June 30, 1885.

Application filed March 3D, 1885. A (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that l, SAMUEL Coenen, a citizen of the United States, residing at Poult` ney, in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ocfns, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to coiins of that class which are constructed of slate, marble, or other natural or artificial stone; and it consists in certain features of construction hereinafter described,and specically set forth in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a perspective, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 atransverse section on the line X of Fig. 2, of a coffin constructed in accordance with my invention.

Like letters indicate like parts in all the iigures.

The sides A and ends B, each of a single piece, are arranged upon the bottom C, as shown, and screws, bolts, or other suitable fastening devices, C', are passed through the 'bottom up Tardly into the lower edges of the sides and ends. In this instance the sides overlap the ends, and the outer corners are rounded, as shown, and re-enforcing cornerpieces, l), having interior curved faces, by which they are adapted to tit the rounded corners of the sides and ends, are secured at each of the corners of the coliin by means of screws, bolts, or other suitable fastening devices, D', passing through the sides and ends into said cornenpieces.

lf desired, the ends B may overlap the sides A in the same manner as the sides are shown as overlapping the ends, in which case the same results are secured as by the arrangement shown.

As shown in Fig. l, the bottom C projects beyond the outer face of the sides at all points between the corner-pieces D, sothat any suitable molding or ornamentation, A', may be arranged in the recesses thus formed at the sides and ends of the coffin; or, if desired, all of the said projecting portions of the bottom may be removed, as at Y, Fig. 2, and in such case the edges of the corner-pieces may be ornamented by forming them in the shape of molding, or in any other desired manner. So, also, may the faces of the cornerpieces or of the sides and ends, as well as of the top of the coffin, be ornamented by cutting, carving, or other suitable means, if desired.

By the construction above described, the lateral pressure of the earth against the sides and ends of the coffin is, in regard to the first, resisted bythe pressure of the sides upon the ends at the cornerjoints, and by the interposition between the earth and said joints of the eorncrpieces; and in like manner in regard to the second-that is, the endsthe corner-pieces receive the pressure, and are 11e-enforced by the sides to prevent the inward crushing of the ends, so that great strength is attainable while using comparatively light or thin material for the different parts of the coffin, whereby excessive weight naturally accompanying cofns of this class is avoided.

l do not claim, broadly, separate cornerpieces; but by reason of the comparatively thin side and end slabs l do not fasten them directly to each other, but to other parts which are thicker, like the corner-pieces, or, being thin, by devices which pass directly through the same, and away from its edges, like the bottom.

Having described my invention and its operation, what I claim is- 1. A co'liin made of slate or its equivalent, and having a side overlapping an end at its corner, and secured to the bottom, said bottom extending out beyond the joint thus formed and secured to a reenforcing cornerpiece, substantially as specified.

2. A coffin made of slate or its equivalent, having two of its opposite sides or ends overlapping the remaining sides or ends, all of which are rounded at the corners and provided with reenforcing corner-pieces adapted to tit the same, substantially as spccied.

3. A coiiin made of slate or its equivalent, and having a projecting bottom, re-enforcing corner-pieces, a projecting cover, and molding arranged in the recesses at the sides and ends, substantially as speeilied.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

` SAMUEL COOMBE.

"Witnesses:

ALONZO Hnnnroit, FRED S. ILlifrr.

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