USRE10774E - Nicholas r - Google Patents

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NRAPPLBYBA s W. A. SPARKS.

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Reissued Oct. 26, 1886.

UNITED :STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NICHOLAS RAPPLEYEA AND `VILLIAM A. SPARKDF ROCHESTER, N. Y.

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' 4 SPECIFICATION forming part of Reissued Letters Patent No. 1Q,774, dated October 26, 1886.

Original No. 347,739, dated August 17, 1,886. pplicationfor reissue filed September 22,1886. Serial No. 114,292.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, NICHOLAS RArrLEYIsA und WILLIAM A. SPARKS, both of Rochester,

-Monroe county, New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Burial- Gaskets andwe do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a bottom view of the casketlid. Fig. 2 is a top view of` the casket. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the casket enlarged, showing the lid closed on the casket-body. Fig. 4 is a similar view enlarged over Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a similar view with the lid opened. Figs. 6 and 7 are plan views of -the interlocking plates. Figs. 8 and 9 are a side View and section, respectively, of same parts.

This improvement relates to burial-caskets in which the lid is made to turn up, as on a hinge. It is applicable more particularly to small Gaskets, but may also loe used on large ones.

The invention consists in the peculiar coustruction and arrangement of the interlocking platesthat form the hinge, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A yshows the casket, and B the lid. Figs. 1 and i! show the partsseparated.

Our improvement is as follows VC C are lplates which are attached on the top edge of the casket on one side only, and D D are corresponding plates attached on the under side of the lid. The plates C have slots a, which stand crosswise of. the plate and of the edge 4 of the casket, as shown in the enlarged plan view, Fig. 7. The outer end' of the slot is made wide and of the triangular form shown at u, while the inner end of the slot, next to the interior of the casket, is made narrow and of just such width as to receive the' thickness of the tongue of `tle plates D, as shown at a, the object of which will be presently described. The plates D have tongues b, which .stand downward and forward in the inclined position shown in Fig. 8, and at the outer end is an upturned hook, b2, of the shape substantially as indicated.

The operation is as follows: The tongues b are inserted in the slots a, the hook b'-7 fitting under the outer edge yof the slot,'and in that condition the lid can be turned up and down, as on a hinge, as indicated by the full and dotted lines in Fig. 3. The broad portion a of the slot allows easy entrance of the tongue, even if it is not exactly centered, so thata single person can apply and remove the lid without diliiculty. If a narrow slot were used, it would be difticult to insert all the tongues at once. At the same time, when the lid is closed down the inclined sides of the wide part of the slot guide the back of the tongue to a central position, and when the lid is fully closed the back of Ythe tongue ts into the narrow part -aZ of the slot, which centers the lid so that` the catch f on the opposite side of the casket will engage with its socket, and also that the lid is firmly seated in place and has no loose movement. The hook b2 at the outer end ofthe tongue holds under the plate at the outer end of the slot and prevents the disengage ment of the lid from the casket when the lid is turned up, as shown in Fig. 5. In some cases the hook at the end of the tongue may be dispensed with, especially in large caskets, in which case the tongue is simply made inclined and straight but the same form of the slot is used to center and hold the tongue;

This same invention may be applied to boxes and receptacles when a lid is to be attached in a similar Inaunei.

Having described our invention, we do not claim agrooved plate on the casket and a hook on the lid for guiding the lid in an endwisel direction. Neither do we claim a slotted plate andcurved tongue, such as are used to attach coversto sewing-machines.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1L In a burialcasket, the combination of plates C, provided with slots wide at their .outer ends'and narrow at their inner ends 1ocated crosswise of the casket, and plates D,pro vided with tongues having upturned hooks at their outer ends located crosswise of the lid, saidA tongues entering the wide part of the slots and centering to the narrow part to bringthe locking-catch in line with its socket when the lid is closed, and serving as hangers to hold IOS the lid from disengagement when the lid is hold the ,lid from disengagement when thelid opened, as herein shown and described is opened7 substantially as described.

2. In a. burialcasket, the combination of plates provided with slots located crosswise of 5 the casket, and other plates provided with 1 1 tongues having upturned hooks at their outer Witnesses: Y ends located crosswise of the lid, said tongues S. L. DOBBIN,

entering said slots and serving es hangers to' f GEO; l.

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