US684769A - Casket. - Google Patents

Description

No. 684,769. Patented Bot. 85, 590i. 6. M. BRENNAN.

CASKET.

(Application filed Apr. 10, 1900.

(Ho Model.)

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CHARLES M. DRENNAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN METALLIC CASKET COMPANY, OF KITTERY, MAINE, AND BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GASKET.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,769, dated October 15, 19

Application filed April 19, 1900.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHARLns M. DRENNAN, a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Caskets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to improve metallic caskets.

A practical metallic casket must be strong and rigid, and these qualities must be gained with as little weight as possible.

To gain rigidity for the bottom of the easket, I have provided said bottom with a series of corrugations, which in the most approved form now known to me show a series of continuous endless grooves and depressions surrounding a central straight groove. The extreme edge of the corrugated body has an upturned lip, and at a short distance from its edge said bottom has a wider and deeper groove, which enables the fingers of a bearer to get a firm safe hold of the casket when lifting the same.

In order that a lining may be applied to the casket, the body is provided with tackings'trips, held in position by entering-grooves in the body, the strips, coated with glue or Waterproof cement, readily adhering to the body of the casket.

The top of the casket is bent to present a central depressed panel, and this panel has an exposure-opening presenting a surrounding lip located below the bottom of the panel, the lip sustaining a glass, the edges of which are surrounded by the edges of the exposuredepression.

Figure 1 represents in top view, partially broken out, a casket embodying my improvements; and Fig. 2, a section thereof in the dotted line cc. 7

The side walls A of the body of the casket have a longitudinal corrugation a. The upper edge of the body has an outturned flange a, and the lower edge an outflaring portion (1 terminated by an inturned lip a The bottom B of the casket has a straight corrugation or groove 1), inclosed by a series of endless grooves or corrugations 1), b b and b and each endless groove, as shown, being Serial No. 13,409. (No model.)

longer than the one inside of it. The groove 19 is surrounded by a finger-depression 79 shown both wider and deeper than the other grooves. The edge of the bottom outside the finger-groove or handhold. rests on the flange a and the edge has an upturned lip b", which serves as a support for the outfianging portion a That a lining of silk or other material may be applied to the interior of the casket, I insert in the spaces within the corrugation CL and the outfianged portion 6L2 tacking-strips c 0, preferably of wood or other material capable of receiving and holding a tack. In applying these strips I preferably coat the same with glue or other cement where they are to contact with the casket.

The top D of the casket presents a double concavo-convex outline at d d and a depressed central panel d said panel being provided with an exposure-opening d surrounded by a lip d, upturned to leave a trough (Z for the reception of suitable luting, the substantially vertical wall (1 of the exposure-opening meeting the sides of the glass which will be put in the said opening.

To provide for lining the top or cover of the coffin, l have provided a tacking-strip c, it surrounding the exposure-opening and being kept in position, as herein represented, by means of narrow metallic straps or ribbons e, suitably soldered at one end, as at 6 to the interior of the top, the straps being bent from their dotted-line position into their full-line position about the strip e at suitable intervals, enough such straps being used to keep the tacking-strip in its operative position. The top or cover is also provided with. a second tacking-strip f, preferably of wood, grooved at its under side to engage the bead f of the luting-st-ripf sealing-bead has the exterior downturned flange f the lower edge of which is bent around the lower edge of the cover, as at f", and on its inner side the said lutingstrip has the depending portion K, which enters a space between the upper edge of the tacking strip c and the upper edge of the side of the body, as best seen in Fig. 2.

To seal the casket after having applied the lid, the cover is represented as provided with a series of sealing-flaps g. The upper ends The lut.ing-strip or of these flaps are bent inwardly, as represented in Fig. 2, and are soldered in the angle 9 of the sealing-bead. By bending the upper edge of these sealing-flaps, which are narrow beams of sheet metal, so that they fit accurately in the angle g, it is possible to obtain a more secure uniting by solder or otherwise ot the sealing-flaps with the sealingbead, and to seal and fasten the top or cover upon the body the sealing-flaps are bent inwardly and turned upwardly by a suitable tool against the outturned flange a of the body. The lower edge of the top or cover may extend below the flange a for any desired distance. The flaps g are sufficiently strong so that when bent to contact with the under side of the flange a they will lock the cover firmly on the body. The groove in the portion f of the sealing-strip will be filled with suitableluting; but thisinvention is not limited to making the groove in the lutingstrip, as it might be made in the flange of the body.

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

1. A casket having a corrugated metallic bottom, such corrugations being disposed as a central straight groove and a series of side grooves extending parallel with the central straight groove, the said side grooves being joined beyond the ends of the straight groove to completely surround the said straight groove and the grooves around the outer edge of the bottom being of greater depth than the remaining grooves constitute holding means for the fingers.

2. A casket having a metallic bottom provided with corrugations and a depression extending around the bottom adjacent the edge thereof, said depression being deeper than the corrugations and constituting a holding means for the fingers whereby the casket may be lifted by its bottom edge without liability of slipping.

3. A casket having a corrugated, metallic bottom having a central straight groove, a series of continuous grooves surrounding the central groove, and a fin ger-depression parallel with the continuous grooves and adjacent the edge of the bottom.

4. A casket comprising a metallic body, the side walls of which flare outwardly at their lower edge to provide a receiving portion for a tacking-strip, the" lower edge of said side walls terminating in an inturned flange, and a metallic bottom sustained on said flange.

5. A casket comprising a metallic body, the side walls of which flare outwardly at their lower end and terminatein aninturned flange, a corrugated metallic bottom sustained on said flange, and a tacking-strip in said outflaring portion of the side walls, and held be tween said outflaring portion of the side walls and the outer ridge of the corrugations in the bottom.

6. A metallic casket having the upper por- '7. A metallic casket having its top or cover provided with a plurality of non metallic tack-strips, one of said strips being arranged around the edge of the top or cover to receive the tacks for securing a lining in position.

8. A metallic casket having a metallic top provided with a central sunken panel, a nonmetallic tacking-strip on the inner side of said top surrounding said panel and means for securing said tacking-strip to said top.

9. A metallic casket having a metallic top provided with a central sunken panel, a nonmetallic tacking-strip on the inner side of said top and surrounding said panel, a second tacking-strip around the outer edge of said top and means for securing said tacking-strip to the top.

10. A metallic casket having its top provided with non-metallic material having a groove therein, a conveXed portion connected with the top and engaging said groove to thereby aid in positioning said non-metallic material that tacks may be driven into it.

11. A metallic casket havingatop provided with a sunken panel, and a non-metallic strip applied to the inner side of the top and held in position by means of metallic tapes, one end of which is secured to the top.

12. A metallic casket consisting of a body having a flanged upper edge and top and a sealing-bead connected with the interior of the top and adapted to rest on the flanged upper edge of the body, one edge of said sealing-bead embracing the edge of the top.

13. A metallic casket consisting of a body and top and a sealing-bead connected with the interior of the top and adapted to rest on the flanged edge of the body, one edge of said sealing-bead embracing the edge of the top, and sealing-flaps secured on the inner side of said head.

14. In a casket, a metallic cover provided at its edge with a sealing-bead adapted to rest on the body, said sealing-bead havingaflange bent around the edge of the cover.

15. A metallic casket having applied within its upper end a strip leaving a space between said strip and the upper edge of the casket, combined with a cover provided at its inner side with a sealing-bead, presenting a depending edge entering the space between said strip and the upper edge of the body of the casket.

16. A casket having a metallic lid provided with a central panel cut out at one end to form an exposure-opening, the edge of said opening having the substantially vertical depending flange terminating in an inturned lip adapted to sustain a glass, the vertical wall of the flange providing an abutting surface for the edge of the glass.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of 10 two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES M. BRENNAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, MARGARET A. DUNN.

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