US534046A

US534046A - Burial-casket

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Publication number: US534046A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-02-12
Anticipated expiration: 1912-02-12

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J. P. HILL.

BURIAI. GASKET. No. 534,046. Patented Feb. 12, 1895.

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JULIAN P. HILL, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

BU RlAL-CASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 534,046, dated February 12, 1 895.

Application filed February 6,1894- Serial No,- 499,239. (No model.) i

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JULIAN P. HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing in Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Burial-Caskets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a sanitary burial casket, constructed of glass, that can be cheaply and readily made and that will be almost indestructible. Such a casket will be perfectly air tight, from which the oxygen may be easily exhausted or neutralized or substituted by another gas so that a corpse may be placed therein and be preserved for a long time without perceptible change, and be transported from place to place without the danger of contagious or infectious diseases being transmitted from such a corpse to the living, all of which will be fully and clearly hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1, is a top or plan view of the casket complete. Fig. 2, represents a vertical longitudinal section through the casket in or about line a a, Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is afront end view of the same, showing the cover and illustrating its mode of attachment. Fig. 4, represents the foot or end view of the casket. Fig. 5, is a front or head-end view, the cover being removed so as to show the construction of the removable holding cross-brace.

Referring to the accompanying drawings the body of the casket is preferably constructed entirely of glass of a semi-circular form at the top 1, with slightly curved sides and bottom, see Figs. 3, 4, and 5 where the form of the sides are shown by the

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2, 2 and 3, the object being to give it sufficient strength to resist the pressure of the atmosphere when the air is exhausted.

At the head of the casket there is a circular. tapering opening 4, as large as it is possible to make it, consistent with the required strength, surrounding the opening 4. On the inside of the casket is a flange 5, and slightly beyond the flange are two inwardly projecting lugs 6, placed directly opposite each other or substantially so. The lugs 6, project inward from the interior surface of the casket about one half of an'inch more or less. Their object will appear farther on.

7 represents a removable holding bar frame. It is formed with a central portion, 8, and two outwardly projecting arms 9 on eachside, each of which is connected by a curved bar 10, shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5. The curved portionslO, are each provided with a small opening 11. To put this holding bar in place all that is necessary is to put it through the opening 4, or turning it so its narrow sides pass in, when it is turned so that the ends can be brought in a posit-ion directly opposite the lugs 6. It is now brought forward until the ends or curved portions 10, rest against the flange 5, and may then be dropped downward substantially as shown in Fig. 5, in which position it is securely held in place so that the cover can be put on.

The cover 12, is, preferably, also made of glass and is provided with a central knob 13, and surrounding the knob 13, is a series of smaller knobs or projections 14. The object of the knob 13 and projections 14, is to aiford the means for putting on the cover. In the inner side of the cover is a screw bolt, 15. This bolt is secured in place substantially as shown in Fig. 2, by molding it in its place While the glass cover is being made, or it may be secured in afterward by means of any Well known cement, in the usual way. bolt being secured rigidly to the cover as truly in the center as possible, it is adapted to screw into the hole 16, (which is provided with a corresponding screw thread adapted to receive the bolt.) This cover is ground taper ing and so as to truly fit the tapering opening 4, so that when put on in place it fits perfectly air tight. To put this cover on, all that is required is to enter the point of the screw bolt into the hole 16, and then turn the cover until it is drawn by the screw closely in place.

To facilitate the drawing of the cover closely in place a bar 17, covered with felt or velvet or other like material may be used, one portion resting on the knob 13, and the end against one of the projections 14, so it can be used as a lever, substantially as shown by the dotted lines, 17, in Fig. 3, where this is illustrated.

I have described this casket as being constructed of glass, but it may be made of The metal with a plate glass in the top but I prefer the glass as above described, because it is a more lasting material and is entirely transparent.

There can be no emanations arising from a corpse put into this casket and it will be found very useful in morgues as the remains may be kept in perfect preservation without the aid of ice and can be viewed for identification without exposing, the remains to the air and without any danger if death was caused by a contagious disease of any kind.

I11 using this casket the corpse is put in feet first through the opening 4, being first laid on a covered board adapted for the purpose by being made hollow or curved transversely, so as to conform as nearly as possible to the form of the opening through which it is passed.

The handles 18 may be. made in any well known way and securedto holding pieces 20, (see Fig. 1) which may be made to partly or wholly surround the casket.

I claim as my invention- A burial casket,having a circular tapering opening in the head through which to enter the corpse, a removable cross bar adapted to rest against a flange inside of the casket, a cover having a rim corresponding to the tapering opening, and having a central screw bolt adapted to screw into a central opening in the removable cross-bar, and means for turning the cover and thereby secure it rigidly in place substantially as described.

JULIAN P. HILL.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. HILL, J. M. CALDWELL.