Improvements in and relating to the Construction of Coffins or like Receptacles for the Dead.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 16th Aor., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Construction of Coffins or like
Receptacles for the Dead.
I, GEORGE MOSSMAN of Stanley Street, Burnley, in the County of Lancaster,
Joiner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of coffins or like receptacles for
the dead, and is designed for hermetically sealing such receptacles after the
deposit of the dead, and before the final closing of the lid, so as to arrest
decomposition, and at the same time present a full view of the corpse and protect
it from mutilation or molestation. For this purpose, I fix a covering of glass or
other transparent material, over the corpse, in a suitable frame and cement or
otherwise secure it perfectly air tight, the frame interposing between the coffin and
the lid when the latter is secured in place.
Dated this 15th day of June 1891
THOS. RICHMOND,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Construction of Coffins or like
Receptacles for the Dead.
1, GEORGE MOSSMAN of Stanley Street, Burnley, in the County of Lancaster,
Joiner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention relates to the construction of coffins or like receptacles for the
dead, and is designed for hermetically sealing such receptacles after the deposition
of the dead and before the final closing of the lid, so as to arrest decomposition,
and at the same time to present a full view of the corpse and protect it from
mutilation or molestation. For this purpose, I fix a covering of glass or other
transparent material over the corpse, and preferably cement or otherwise secure it
perfectly airtight to the body of the coffin, the glass interposing between the body
of the coffin and the lid when the latter is secured in place.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a plan of the body of a coffin with my invention applied.
A is the sheet of glass or other transparent material, which is placed in the body
of the coffin after the deposition of the corpse, and then cemented or otherwise
secured to the rabbitting or ledging B, shewn in dotted lines.
Fig. 2 is a sectional end view of the coffin, taken through the line E, F, Fig. 1.
In this view, A is the sheet of glass or other transparent material cemented or
otherwise secured in the rabbitting or ledging B, after the deposition of the corpse.
The coffin lid C is here shewn in position in dotted lines, and it will be seen that
the glass cover A interposes between the lid and the body of the coffin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
Cover A of glass or other transparent material cemented or otherwise secured

page_text: to the body of the coffin, such cover interposing between the body of the coffin and
the lid, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 15th day of March 1892.
THOS. RICHMOND,
Agent.