US792510A - Burial-vault. - Google Patents

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No, 792,510. PATENTED JUNE 1sy 1905l R. P, FOLK.

BURIAL VAULT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3, 1905.

mc, A MM' IINTTnn STATES Patented June 13, 1905.

PATENT Ottica.

RICHARD F. FOLK, OF MONTPELIER, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN G. FRIEND, OF MONTIELIER, OHIO.

BURIAL-VAULT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,510, dated June 13, 1905.

Application tiled February 3,1905. Serial No. 243,961.

State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Burial -Vault-s, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in burialvaults; and it consists in certain novel con- IO structions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of a vault embodying my invention. Fig. Q is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 is a I5 partial vertical longitudinal section of the vault, and Fig. eI is a detail top plan view of one corner of the vault.

In form the vault partakes generally of the shape of a burial-casket, being designed in 2O practice to receive the casket A, as shown in I. I The improved vault comprises the main section or body B and the cover O.

The body B has the box-like portion B', open at the top BL to receive the casket A and extending' practically to the top of the casket, as shown in Fig. 2. The body B is also provided at its bottom with the laterally-projecting flange B3, which extends continuously around the base of the body, and is provided in its upper side with the continuous groove B, preferably rounded and adapted to snugly receive the returned portion at the lower edge of the cover O, as presently described. It will be noticed that the groove B4 is not formed directly adjacent to the upright plates of the box B', but is spaced outslightly therefrom in order to provide between the cover O and the said upright plates an upright air-space D, form- 40 ing a cushion for the air in the use of the vault, as presently described.

rIhe cover O is preferably formed with the top C and the depending sides O2 and is provided at the lower edges of the sides O2 with the outwardly-extending returned portion O3 conformed to and fitting in practice in the groove B" and presenting at the lower edge of the depending plates O2 an upwardly-facing hook-like portion, which extends continuously around the base of the cover and affords additional resistance to removing the cover C after the vault has been placed in the ground and earth supplied over the upwardly-facing hook C", as will be understood from the drawings.

The grooved construction at BL and the fittingl of the returned edges O3 of the cover in said groove is an important feature of the invention, together with the upwardly-projecting box-like portion within the cover and the O air-cushioning space at D, between the cover and the box, as thereby when the vault is placed in the ground the air within the vault acting in the space D will exert a pressure to resist the entrance of water, and the accumulation of water in and. over the grooveB" will tend to seal the lower edge of the cover, so that the entrance of water into the vault will be prevented, as well as the passage of air from within, so that in practice I avoid the V entrance of water into the box containing the casket and also by cutting ed the supply of air securing better preservation of the contents of the vault than if the air were freely admitted.

It will be understood that the main section and cover of the vault may be of sheet-steel or other suitable material, and in forming the same the parts may be riveted, welded, or otherwise secured together, and I may in practice finish the sections by enanieling or coating with aluminium or other metals or otherwise, as may be desired.

It will be noticed that the cover has no lateral projections at its sides which may serve as handles, so that it is practically irnpossible to remove the cover when once applied without very great trouble, so that I thus render the vault in a large measure burglar-proof. It may be desirable in some instances, however, to supply positive locks for preventing' the removal of the cover, and to this end I may in some instances employ the locks shown and comprising spring-pawls E,

A adapted at such end to extend approximately to the top of a casket and provided at the bottoni of the box-lil e portion with a continuous laterallyprojecting flange and having in the upper face of said flange a continuous groove rounded in cross-section and spaced away Yfrom the upright plates of the box and the cover having a top, and depending side plates, and litted over the box-like portion ol the main section with its side plates spaced away therefrom to form an upright air-Space and having the lower edges of thc side plates oll the cover returned outwardly and con- 'Formed to and littingin the groove in the bottom flange of the inain section and Vforming an upwardly-facing hook-like portion at the base of the eover, all substantially as and Jfor the purposes set forth.

2. A burial-vault comprising a main section having a box-like portion and a flange at the bottoni thereofl and provided in the upper face of said flange with a groove and the cover fitting over the box-like portion and having its side plates fitted at their lower edges in the groove ol the bottoni `flange and provided with outwardly -projecting upwardly-facing hook-like portions extending around the eover substantially as set forth.

8. A burial-vault comprising a main section having` a box-like portion adapted to receive the casket and to extend aiiproxiinately to the top of said casket and provided at its bottoni with an oiitwardly -projecting continuous llange, and the cover fitting over the box-like portion of the main section and spaeed away from the latter forming an air-spaceand seating at its lower edge upon the laterally-projecting flange, all substantially as and `for the purposes set forth.

RICHARD F. FULK. lVitncsses:

SoLoN (l. limioN, PERRY B. '.lUiirIN.

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