US1028735A - Burial apparatus. - Google Patents

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T. KEITH.

BURIAL APPARATUS. APPLICATION TILED JULY 31,1911.

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TI-IADEUS KEITH; OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUBIAL APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1912.

Application filed July 31, 1911. Serial No. 641,474.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THADEUS KEITH. a

citizen of the United States, residing at.

ratus and in details thereof constructed and,

arranged as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of a burial apparatus constructed in accordance with this invention and showing it in position for lowering a coffin into agrave. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the apparatus located over a grave. Fig. 4L is an end view in cross section of the apparatus located over a grave. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view in perspective of a portion of the apparatus in which a cofiin is suspended. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view with parts broken away and in section showing one of the supporting bars for a coffin. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail View in perspective of a portion of one of the uprights and a weight and cord employed therewith. y

In carrying out the invention an elevated frame is provided which is adapted to be located over a grave, and, as here shown, preferably consisting of the slightly inclined pairs of uprights 1 located at the ends of the elevated framework and connected by pairs of longitudinal bars 2 and 3 and intervening longitudinally inclined brace bars 4, the pairs of uprights 1 being connected together by cross bars 5. Located at each end of the framework between the longitudinal bars 2 is a plat-form 6 supported on cross bars 7 mounted in the longitudinal bars 2, one of the platforms 6 being provided with sets of rollers 8 which enables a coffin placed upon the platform 6 to be pushed forward on to the same and also ofi of the same to the middle of the frame work as hereinafter set forth. For

ornamental purposes the cross'9 is mounted in the center of the framework upon the cross bar 10 connected to the longitudinal bars 3. o

Located between the platforms 6 are transverse bars 11 on which a coflin is adapted to rest, as shown in Fig. 2, said bars being hinged at one end by means of a hinge 12 to one of the longitudinal bars 2 and secured at its other end to the other longitudinal bar 2 by a spring actuated locking pin 13. The coflin 14. is placed upon the platform 6 and rolled on to and off of the same by means of rollers 8 and is moved to the position shown in Fig. 2 on the transverse bars 11. In order to move the coflin and lower it into the grave an apparatus is provided consisting of an iron bar 15 formed with an eye 16 at each end and in conjunction with the rod 15 is a rod '17 having curved ends 18. A chain 19 is connected with each eye 16 of the rod 15 and has at its other enda ring 20 which is slid over the curved end 18 of the rod 17, the curved end 18 preventing the ring 20 from accidentally slipping off of the end of the rod 17. A pair of chains 21 are employed in connect-ion with the rods 15 and '17, one end of'said chains 17 being connected by a link 22 with the rods 15 and 17 re spectively, and the other end of said chains being connected with a cross rod 23 to which is connected one end of a hoisting rope 2 1 which" passes over a roller 25 in the center of the cross bar 10 and extends beneath the same to one end 26 thereof and downward to a Windlass 27 mounted on one of the longitudinal rods 2. The windlass 27 is operated by a toothed wheel 28 on one end thereof which meshes with a pinion 29 on a shaft projecting from the longitudinal bar 2 and provided with a crank handle 30. Connected to rings 31, which in turn are connected to rings '32, one of which is connected with an eye 16 and the other with the rod 17, are cords33 which extend up through diagonal hollow rods 34 secured at the lower end to longitudinal bars 3 and at the upper end to the upper end of the apparatusl, the cord 33 passing over a pulley 35 in the top of the uprights 1 and down through a groove 36 in the upright 1 and having connected to its lower end a weight 37 slidable in the groove 36. Secured to each of the cords 33 adjacent to the weight 37 is a flag 38. The

coflin 14, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, is in position to be lowered into a grave 39.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: The elevated framework having been placed over a grave 39, the coflin 14 is pushed on to the platform 6 provided with rollers and from thence on the transverse bars 10. The chains 19 are then passed about the QOfllIl and a ring 20 is slipped over each end of the rod 17, the rings 33 having been already slipped o-ntothe rod 17. The transverse bars 11 are then released by turning back the pins 13 and swung downward out of the way and the coffin is lowered into the grave by unwinding the Windlass 27. As the coffin islowered into the grave the cords 33 draw the weights 37 upward on the uprights 1 to the top thereof and the flags 38 being carried up therewith are displayed and indicate that the coffin-has been lowered to the bottom of the grave. The rings 20 and 33 are then pushed off of the rod 17 and the chains '19 and the rods 15 and 17 drawn up out of the grave by means of the hoist-- ing rope 24:.

It will be seen that by means of the apparatus'hereinbefore described that a cofiin may be readily and effectively handled by one'or two persons and lowered into a grave.

l/Vha-t I claim is;

'-' 1. A burial apparatus comprising an elevated frame-work, a pair of bars adapted to lie parallel to a coflin, chains connected with one of said bars and detachably connected to the other bar, and adapted to be 1 passed under a coffin, hoisting chains connected to said bars, and a hoisting mechanism on said frame work connected with said hoisting chains.

2. A burial apparatus comprising an ele- -vated frame-work, a rod having a chain connected to each end adapted to extend about a coffin, a second rod with which said chains are detachably connected said rods arranged to lie parallel to the length of a coffin, hoisting chains connected to said rods, a hoisting rope mounted on said framework, and a Windlass and operating mechanism connected therewith and mounted on said frame work.

3. A burial apparatus comprising an elevated frame-work, ropes and chains adapted to be secured to a coflin for suspending the same, and hoisting mechanism connected with said ropes and chains, cords mounted on said elevated frame-work and connected with said rods, a windlass connected with said cords and weights slidable upon. said uprights having said cords secured thereto.

i. A burial apparatus comprising an elevated framework having longitudinal rods, a pair of rods and chains connected to said rods and'adapted to be extended beneath the coflin, hoisting chainsconnected with said rods, a hoisting mechanism connected. with said hoisting chains, hollow bars extending from the lower part of the framework to the top of the framework at its ends, grooved uprights at the ends of the frame connected at their upper ends to the upper ends of said hollow bars, pulleys at the upper end of said grooved uprights, cords extending through said hollow bars,

and through said grooved uprights and THADEUS KEITH. lVitnesses W. E. WATERS, CHAS. KELLY.

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