USD22535S - Design for a coffin-handle - Google Patents

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COFFIN HANDLE.

No. 22,535. Patented June 13, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER MLC.AR11IY, OI" Ml lllllll li', tTONNEC'lItl 'l, AShltlNtlll 'ltl 'llllC MERIDEN BRITANNIA COMIAN Y, 0i" SAME II.A(l.

DESIGN FOR A COFFlN-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 22,535, dated June 13, 1893.

Application filed May 15, 1893v Serial No. 474,356. Trl'lll of patent 7 years.

To all whom it may concern:

llc it known that I, OLIVER MLIUAH'XUY, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Dcsign for a Coffin-Handle; and I do hereby dedare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents a face view.

This invention relates toadesign fol-collinhandles, and the design consists in the configuration and ornamentation as hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying illustration.

Each of the socket-plates of my newly designed colfin-handlc, has a raised, ribbed rectangular panel A, having the appearance of being composed of convex moldings initcrcd together. This panel is surrounded at a lower plane than its face, by an elaborate hand in the rococo style of decoration, and co1np0scd of shell-forms B, and long scrolls C,thc upper and lower portions of the band, and the sides of the band, corresponding to each other. A projection D, having a smooth surface, is located in the center of each of the panels A. Drops E E depending from the said projections, are provided upon their outer faces with ornamentation of a similarcharacter, and consisting of shell-like forms l scrolls G, and beads If. The central portion I, of the handie-bar is made plain, the bar terminatingat each end in ornate tips, the surface of which is broken by bands J, .l, J andJ. 'lhe narrow space between the hands J and J contains an ornamentatiml of heads K. The concaved space between the bands .I' and J is filled in with alternate sheaf-like forms L, and rope-like forms M. The convcxed space be tween the bands .I and J is occupied with panels N, inclcsing double shell-like ornaments 0, the extreme end of the tip lying out side of the band .I" being occupied by an ornate band of scrolls P, placed side by side.

I clain1- The design for a collin-hamllc as hex-cindescribcd and shown in the accompanying illustration.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OLIVER McCARTll Y.

\Vitnesses:

.l. M. lliuinox, FINRAY MALE.

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