US595462A - Edward l - Google Patents

Description

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E.L.SNADER.

GO'FFIN.

No. 595,462. Patented Dec. 14,1897.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES Y PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. SNADER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COFFlN SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 595,462, dated December 14, 1897.

Application filed March 2 3, 189 7.

panying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the open end of the exterior coffin crease and the detachable head. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 3 is a horizontalsection on line w of Fig. 2 with gasketcut away at hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In said drawings the top and bottom of the casing or exterior coffin are shown at A A, projecting beyond the side pieces shown at B The side pieces B B are rabbeted on the inner edges of the ends, as seen at b b, and the inner faces of the ends of the top. and bottom pieces are cut away to a depth equal to the rabbet on the side pieces, except where the projecting surface abuts against the unrabbeted portion of the ends of the side pieces -B, this portion being flush, as seen at a a.

This construction of the ends leaves a continuous rabbet or recess around the open end into which is bent back the edge of the metallic lining of the case, as seen at d d, and said edge secured by screws 1 t" or other fastenings, The depthof this rabbet or recess is such as to also accommodate a rubber or other elastic gasket G,-upon which the re- Serial No. 628,813. (No model.)

movable head H bears when screwed up tightly. The gasket or packing may be on the head and fit into the rabbet without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I I discover that by abstaining from the use of the cross-bar, central screw, and other fastenin g effects, as described in my former patent, Ican get a cheap and efficacious fastening for the head by using headed bolts to pass through the removable head covering and which, passing through longitudinal holes h h v in the side pieces, engage with inserted nuts n n, which are set into the wood of the side pieces and by which the head-covering is drawn down with the enormous pressure of the screw in a metal bearing against the gasket to make the joint air and gas tight.

The conformation of the removable head H is to fit closely against the side pieces and inside the extended top and bottom pieces of the case. Thus the mechanical construction leaves a symmetrical construction of the inclosing coffin and all the exterior angles right angles, while the end is closed hermetically.

I am aware it is not broadly new to rabbet the edge of a coffin and secure the edge of the metallic lining in said rabbet, and I am also aware that coflin-covers have heretofore been secured by means of screws engaging with nuts embedded in the body of the coffin, and hence I distinctly disclaim either of these broadly as my invention.

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

In an exterior coffin the side pieces provided with the rabbeted interior edges, and the top and bottom pieces provided with the extended recessed ends, so cut as to form a recess around the entire opening, in combination with the interior metallic lining arranged as described, the gasket, removable head, bolts and inserted nuts, all constructed, arranged and operated as described.

EDWARD L. SNADER.

Witnesses:

GEORGE PAUNOEFORT, F. W. CALDWELL.

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