USRE919E - Improvement in coffins - Google Patents

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in the line .c a: of n tion in the line y y, and Fig, 5 a crosssection UNITED STATES JOHN G. FORBES AND ROBERT SQUIERS, OF NEY'V YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNEES,

IMPROVEMENT lN COFFINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5,920, dated November 14, 1348 March G, 1860.

; Reissue No. 919, dated To LZZ whom t 11mg concern.-

Be it known that ALMOND D. FisK, of the vent a new and useful iunnner ot' constructing air-tight coltns ot' cast or raised metal,

of which the following is a' full and exact description.

Metallic cotiins have heretofore been made of shapes corresponding to those which are usually constructed ot' wood; but from their great weight, the diiliculty ot' rendering them `airtight, .and 'other objections, they have not been gyerallyused. To obyiate these objections as far as practicable is the purpose ot' the present invention.

To dispense with all unnecessary weight of j' metal, the form ofthe cotiin is made to conform as nearly as practicable to that of the human body. This is more fully acconlplished by constructing it of two shells, an upper and a lower, which arejoined together in a hoiizontal line, in the manner hereinafter described. These two shells are best made ot' nearly the sume depth, so that the linevof their june-tion shall beat or near the middle point in the height of the cotlin; but this may be varied vto snit the taste o r other purpose of the mannfacturer, lbut nog'reat difference can be made -in the relative depth of those shells without adding materially to the weight ofthe cofn. i The two'shells are more or-less curvilinear in nearly all their parts,' and 'they maybe made I 'as thin as the running of the met-al will ad mit, which will secure to them more than suiicient strength to resist any pressure to which they may be subjected.

In the accompanying draWingmFigure l is atop view, and' Fig. 2 a side elevation, ot' this metallic cotti n.` Fi g. 3 is across section thereof Fig. l. Fig. 4 ,is a cross-sec in the line z z. These sectional views show -the'curvilinoar form of the two shells. The letters A A show'the line of their junction, each being furnished with a flange or project- -v ing arm for the reception'of screws or rivetsnA l Y i the junction being made-tight by means ot' g the well-known` iron-cement or other equiva city, county, and State of New York, did inlcnt means.

In the drawings, a cross, B, is represented on the breast ot' the colin, and handles c c are also shown of a particular form but these are unimportantto the ypresent purpose, may be varied at pleasure.

It has been the practice heretofore in some instances to place a round plate of glass, cemented airtight, over the face ot' the corpse in cast metal or composition coins. A metallic plate coveringsnch a plate of glass is shown at D.

From a coln ot' this description the air muy be exhausted so completely as to entirely prevent the decay of the body contained therein; or, it preferred, the Cottin may -be filled with gas or iiuid having the property of preventing putrefaction.

XVe do not claim the makingpf collins from cast or raised metal intwo parts when the one is so constructed as to con tain entire the body ofthe corpse, cover for the same; but

XVhat we do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters lPatent, is-

The manuiiacturing of colin's of castor raised metal, when made substantially in the form and manner above described-that'is to say, corresponding nearly with the human form, and making the coffin in two parts or shells united b above set forth.

2. The manufacture of cons of raised or cast. metal'in two shells, each' formedwith recesses of greater or less depth, whichA shall respectively constitute a portion of the recep-l -tacle ot' the corpse, thus approximating the -coi more nearly in shape to that of the hninan body than could otherwise be done.

- J. G. FORBES.

It. SQUIERS.

Witnesses:

` W.' H. Forums-,-

and they y while the other is a mere lid or.

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