US434368A - Embalming and cooling apparatus - Google Patents

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E. D. WHIPPLE.

EMBALMING AND COOLING APPARATUS. No. 434,368. Patented Aug. 12, 1890.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE D. \VHIPPLE, OF CRESTON, IOWVA.

EMBALMING AND COOLING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,368, dated August 1 2, 1890.

Application filed September 16 1889. Serial No. 324,139. (lIo model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE D. WHIPPLE, of Creston, in the county of Union and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Undertakers Embalming and Cooling Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of aprangemen ts, and combinations of elements, to

be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an inverted plan view of my embalming and cooling apparatus, the parts being represented as they appear when folded for transportation. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the apparatus, the parts being represented as they appear when the corpse to be operated upon is small. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the apparatus, the upper rack being adjusted to an incline, while the lower rack is adjusted to a horizontal posit-ion, resting, however, in a plane above that occupied by the main frame. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the apparatus, the upper and lower boards being turned up on edge, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view representing the upper and lower racks as they appear when both are adjusted at an angle to the main frame.

In the drawings, 10 represents the main frame of the apparatus, to which there are pivotally connected legs 11 and 1.1, that are held by pivotally mounted and slotted side braces 12. In the sides of the frame 10 there are formed grooves, in which I fit slats 13. The ends of the slats 13 are connected by a cross-piece 14, to which there is hinged a leg 15, which may be moved to the position in which it is shown in Figs. 2 to 5, inclusive, or folded down, as represented in Fig. 1. At the corners of the frame formed by the strips 13 and the cross-strips 14, I arrange straps 16, which are shaped to form sockets for canopystandards 17, other straps 16 being in like manner secured to the corners of the frame 10 and arranged to form sockets for other canopy-standards 17.

Upon the main and extension frame arranged as above described I mount an upper slatted tray 20, to which there are connected two. angular slotted head-block supports 21,

such supports being carried by a rod or shaft 22, which passes through apertures formed at the apices of the supports 2l,and through brackets carried by the upper cross-piece of the slatted tray 20, one end of the shaft or rod being engaged by a binding-nut 23,which, if turned home to bear against its head-block support, will hold said support at any desired angle. The arms of the supports 21 are slotted, and through these slots there are passed pins 24, which extend outward from theheadblock 27, the arrangement being such that the head-block may be adjusted to any position desired.

In order that the tray 20 may be raised, so as to extend at an angle from the frame 10, I provide a support 25, the lower end of which has a pivotal connection with the frame 10, its upper end being provided with clampingfingers, which engage rack-bars formed on the sides of the tray, in a manner most clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 5 of the drawings.

Between the slats of the tray 20, I arrange other slats, which enter into the make-up of a lower tray 30, the lower end of said tray being held by set-screws 31 to strips 32, that are held to slide in slots formed in the crosspiece 14, the arrangement being such that if the strips he slid up, as represented in Fig. 3, and the set-screw 31 turned home the lower end of the tray 30 will be supported, as represented inthe figure last referred to; or the strips 32 may be slid.down, as represented in Fig. 5, and then, if the set-screws be turned home, the tray will be supported in the position in which it is shown or in any interme diate position. The outer slats of the trays 20 and 30 are slotted, as shown at a and b, and through these slots there are passed two short bolts 33, and by turning home these bolts the trays may be supported, as represented in Fig. 3.

From the description above given it will be seen that the apparatus may be adjusted to any position required, and that it may be folded so as to occupy a minimum amount of space when it becomes necessary to transport the apparatus from place to place.

To prevent the slipping of the corpse from the apparatus, I provide the tray 30 with a hinged foot-piece 35, which may be folded to the position in which it is shown in Fig. 4 or to the position in which it is shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In an embalming and cooling apparatus, the combination, with a supporting-frame, of the two slatted adjustable trays, one sliding in the other, and their outer slats hating the slots a and b, and bolts 33, which lie in said slots and serve to clamp and hold the trays in any lengthwise adjustment, as shown and described.

2. In an embalming and cooling apparatus, the combination, with the main legged frame and the extensible frame having a leg and sliding on the main frame, of the upper slatted tray and its adjustable support 25, the lower slatted tray 30, sliding on the former, means for securing said trays together when adjusted lengthwise or at different angles to each other, as specified, and a vertically-adjust-able support for the outer end of said lower tray, substantially as shown and described.

3. In an embalming and cooling apparatus, the combination, with a supporting-frame and the connected trays and 30, of the ad just-able head-block having lateral pins 24, the angular and slotted supports 21, the rod 22, passing through the apices of the latter and serving to hinge them to the tray, and a binding-nut 23 for holding the supports 21 at any desired angle, as shown and described.

4. In an embalming and cooling apparatus, the combination, with a main frame, of an extensible frame, a slatted tray 20, a headblock adjustably held thereto, a swinging support 25, also connected thereto, a lower slatted tray 30, clamping-bolts 33, which pass through slots formed in the tray-slats, strips 32, that are connected to the cross-piece of the strips 13, and clamping-screws 31, carried by the tray and arranged to engage the strips, substantially as described.

EUGENE D. \VIIIPPLE.

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