US42641A - Improvement in coffins - Google Patents

Description

E. H. COVEL.

Corpse Cooler.

Inventon Patentedr May 1o, 1864.

Witnesses:

AM. PHOTO-LITRO. CDM-Y. (OSBORNE'S PRO CSSS.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OEECE.

E. HALL COVEL, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

MPROVEMENT IN COFFINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 12,611 I dated May 10, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, E. HALL CovEL, of the city of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Gaskets for Preserving the Bodies of the Dead 5 and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, refe-ence being had to the accompanying drani ugs, and to the letters and marks thereon.

Of the drawings tbrming part of this speci* cation, Figure l is a view of the finished casket; Fig. 2. a view by longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a View ofthe body ofthe casket, the lid being removed; and Fig. 4 is a view by transverse section on the red line of Fig. 2.

In each of thesegures, where like parts are shown, like letters and marks are used to indicate the parts.

The casket of thisinvention is intended for preserving the body of the dead by the use of ice and other refrigerating materials. The exterior is a coat of felt, cloth, or some other non-conducting substance, and is indicated by the dark external line of Figs. 2 and 4, such coat investing the entire casket, and having immediately next to it wood of about fiveeighths of an inch thickness. rlhe bufteolored portions of Figs. 2 and 4 represent the wood part of the body of the casket, itbeing omitted in the lid in order the better to show other parts. Vithin vthe weod is a waterjacket made of metal, and indicated by the blue lines of Figs. 2 and 4. It will be noticed that this water jacket will surround all but the top surface of the bt dy, and when in use will be lled with cold water formed by the melting of the ice used, the water finding its way therein from the ite-chamber a through the tubes b, and there being an outlet for the excess of water, as indicated at c, such outlet bein g properly controlled by a faucet or valve.

The ice-chamber a is made so as readily to bc lifted out and returned, and has tubes d through which the air passes also, it becoming dry by passing through this duct. The bottom plate of this duct is ci rfed, t', in order to conform to the shape ofthe body and strengthen the duct. It will be perceived that all the air passing over the body is cold dry air, and that necessarily there will comparatively be no moisture ou the body, and that its surface will be free from all that slimy and clammy condition which exists when a body is c on- `fined without any circulation of air.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The waterljacket, as arranged, for the purpose ot' preserving the body of the dead, in combination with the coating offelt, wood, or other non-conducting substances.

2. Passing a current of external air which has passed the cold tubes or ducts over the body, and in direct contact with it, for the purpose hereinbefore named.

3. The air-duct f, or its equivalent, when used for the purpose herein described.

4. The detachable ice-chamber a, in combination with the lid of the casket.

5. The ventilating-pipe d, 1' its equivalent, in combination with the outlet e, or its equivalent, as arranged.

This specification signed this 14th day of April, 1864.

E.I HALL covEL.

Witnesses:-

THos. T. EVERETT, GILBERT B. TowLEs.

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