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Description

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,W- R. HASSARD.

MOLD FOR MAKING GOFPIN GASES.

PatentedApr. 27, 1886.

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\VILLIAM R. HASSARD, OF U NION, NEXV JERSEY.

MOLD FOR MAKING CUFFlN-CASES.

QPE'CIFEICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,877, dated April 27, 1886.

Application filed December 10, 1885. Serial No. 153,214.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it' known that LVVILLIAM 1t. Hrlsslinn, a citizen of the United States, residing at the town of Union, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Molds for Making Coffin-Gases, of which the following is a speeification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to molds for the construction of burialcases; and the object I have in View is to make a matrix and core which may be readily taken apart and removed from the molded material while it is in a plastic form, thecore being more particularly peculiar in its construction.

In the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of the mold and core in position for use. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the core, and Fig. 3 a plan view of the mold.

In the fi gnres, A A represent the side pieces of the mold, B B the end pieces, and G the bot-- tom. The bottom piece is channeled out longitudinally near its edges as well as crosswise. The lower edges of the side pieces rest in the longitudinal channels, and the lower edges of the end pieces restin the cross grooves or channels. The side pieces are slotted at their ends and the end pieces are grooved on their outer faces. Rods H, having thumbserews on their ends, lie in the slots of the side pieces and in the grooves of the end pieces, and serve to secure and bind them together when necessary.

F F and G G are slides, which taper inwardly longitudinally, to conform the shape of the mold to the usual shape of the casket which the case is to contain. The end slides, E E, taper from top to bottom inwardly for a similar purpose. The side ends of the slides E rest in channels in the inner faces of the slides F and G.

D represents an elevated portion of the bot tom piece, 0.

The parts of this mold are so constructed that they may be easily taken apart and remot ed after the case has been molded.

The core is represented in Figs. 1 and 2, and is so constructed of metal plates and rods and hooks and eyes that it eappcasily be knocked down and removed when i'iecessary. I and I (No model.)

represent the side pieces of this core, and R thebottom piece. J J represent the end'pieces. Upon the inner surfaces of the several plates are eyes a a, For the purpose hereinafter indicated. l? P represent rods, which extend ontward or toward the mouth of the core from its bottom. These rods are provided with screwthreads.

m m are disks, which pass over the rods, and which have hinged to them a series of hooks, N N. \Vhen the core is set up for use, the hooks N N catch into the eyes a a of the side and end pieces.

0 0 represent thumb screws, which pass over the rods 1 P, and which are made to work against the disks or m, for raising or low ering them, to tighten up or free the side pieces.

K represents a rod connecting two of the disks.

M represents a brace, the ends of which rest in grooves in the corner slides, 00 so. These slides have a tongue, which rests between the inner ends of the two side pieces, I and I, connecting the two at the extreme width of the core.

The end plates, J J, rest in channels in the outer ends of the plates I and I, and the bottom plate is clamped between the side and end plates.

It will readily be seen that by'loosening up the thumb'screws O O the hooks may be removed from the eyes in the plates, and thus the entire core taken down and removed.

In using this mold the core is placed in it after all the parts of each have been properly secured together. The core is placed bottom upward, as seen in Fig. 1, its mouth surrounding the elevated portion D of the bottom. The plastic material of which the caseis to be made is inserted in the matrix around the core and tamped down until the sides and ends are formed. The material is then spread over the core to a suitable thickness to form the bottom of the ease. lVhen all has been completed, the mold is turned over and knocked down and its parts removed. This enables the operator to reach the thumb-screws on the inside of the core, which being loosened, the several parts of the core are removed and the case left to harden.

The slat or cover to the case is molded in any of the well-known and usual ways, and is tit ICO ted to and secured upon the case at the proper time.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

. 1. A mold for making cases for the receptacle of burialcaskets, constructed with side pieces, A A, end gates, 13 B, with bolts H passing through the said side and end pieces, for binding same together, the bottom 0, having elevated portion D, and the tapering slides E i F G, all substantially as and for the purpose able mold, a core-box having removable bottom ,side,and end pieces, removable transverse brace M, fitting in grooves in corner pieces, :0, screw-threaded rods P, projecting from the bottom of the core-box, on the inside thereof, and provided with thumb-screws O, and plates m, placed on the rods P, and provided with hooks N, to detachably engage with the side and end pieces of the box, and the transverse brace M, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. In combination with a detachable knockdown mold having a raised portion, D, on its bottom of the general shape of the article to be molded, a core-box constructed of detachable bottom, side, and end pieces, and adapted to fit over the raised portion of the bottom of the mold, substantially as set forth.

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

VM. R. HASSARD.

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