Improvements in or relating to certain Metallic Parts of Coffin Furniture.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 25th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 20th Jan.,
1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to certain Metallic Parts of Coffin
Furniture.
I, WILLIAM HERBERT HANDS, of 17, Stanley Road, Nechells, Birmingham,'
Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
My invention for improvements in certain metallic parts of coffin furniture
relates more particularly to those parts known as the breast plate, head and
foot ornaments and the handle plates and which are employed to the coffin as
an ornament.
The aim and object of this my invention is to produce these metallic parts by
a more economical process and still retain an equal or better effect with greater
durability.
Hitherto the better class of metallic coffin furniture has been produced from
sheet metal of a strong guage and formed or configurated in various ways to
suitable designs being finally polished, but the application has been limited by
the cost.
I will describe my invention thus:-
I form the basis or foundation of these metallic parts of coffin furniture from
a common or inferior metal such as sheet iron or similar metal the exposed
surface of which is coated or covered with a thin metal of superior quality such
as brass nickel or other metal which will admit of a high polish or finish.
By one mode I take a sheet of iron or other common metal of a required guage
and raise to a desired pattern by stamping into suitably prepared dies. I remove
this from the said die and substitute a sheet of very thin brass or metal of
superior quality, it will be understood that the latter can be arranged over
the former and the edges of the brass or the like extending over the iron or the
like admits of its being turned over inwards and both metallic parts are held
together.
Or by another mode I may amalgamate the two metals as above described by
rolling or sweating or other ways, the thin sheet of superior metal in all cases
being used for the exposed surface.
Improvements in or relating to certain Metallic Parts of Coffin
Furniture.
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I, WILLIAM HERBERT HANDS, of 17, Stanley Road, Nechells, Birmingham,
Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:
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My invention for improvements in or relating to certain metallic parts of
coffin furniture relates more particularly to those parts known as the breast.
plate, head and foot ornaments, handle plates, their handles and such minor
parts as are employed to coffins and commercially known as coffin furniture.
I will describe my invention thus:-The basis or foundation of these metallic
ornamental parts of coffin furniture I form or raise from a common or inferior
metal such as sheet iron, and by the same mode I raise or form of the same
design a thin metal of superior quality such as, brass, nickel, with this superior
metal I cover over the exposed surface of the inferior metal. I thus produce
an article of greater durability, and effect and more economicaly.
I have hereto appended two sheets of drawings on which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
Sheet 1, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of the back of one part of the coffin
furniture and known as the breast plate, and constructed of the superior metal
and according to my invention.'
Figure 2 is a view in elevation of the back part of the coffin furniture con-
structed of the inferior metal and according to my invention.
Figure 3 is a view in elevation as Figure 1 but with Figure 2 arranged therein
according to my invention.
Figure 4 is a view in elevation sectional, as Figure 3 only taken on the
line A B.
Sheet 2, Figure 5, is a view front elevation, complete, and constructed according
to my invention.
Figure 6 is a view in elevation of the back of the handle plate of the coffin
furniture, and constructed as above described, and according to my invention.
Figure 7 is a view front elevation of same complete, according to my invention.
Figure 8 is a view of the handle (or gripe) constructed as above described of
the breast plate, and handle plate, and according to my invention.
Figure 9 is a view as Figure 4 but upon an enlarged scale, shewing the mode
of connecting the parts.
a is the breast plate constructed of the superior metal, having the upturned
edge b.
e is the inferior metal with upturned edge d, as illustrated by
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9.
e is the handle plate constructed of the superior metal having the upturned
edge f. g is the inferior metal with upturned edge h as illustrated by
Figures 6, 7.
is the handle or gripe for the plate e and constructed of the inferior metal
as hitherto that is by casting or stamping but covered with a superior metal c.
gi, are formed or raised from the common or inferior metal in a well known
manner, and a and e are formed or raised by the same process.
When the inferior metal forms c and g are placed in the forms a and e as
illustrated by Figures 3 and 6 the upturned edges b and f being deeper than the
upturned edges d and h allows the formed to be turned over the latter inwards,
thus securing a to c, and e to g as illustrated by Figure 9,-or the same parts
may be secured together by the employment of the eyelets j, j
Or I may combine or amalgamate the superior metal upon the outer surface
of the inferior metal by rolling or in any other way, and then raise or form
to the desired pattern as above described the various parts of coffin furniture.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
In "Improvements in or relating to certain metallic parts of coffin furniture."
The construction and combination of a base, or foundation of metal of an

page_text: inferior kind, the exposed surface being covered or coated with a metal of a
superior kind and secured together, substantially as and for the purposes herein
before described in the foregoing specification, and illustrated on the accom-
panying sheets of drawings.
Dated this 24th day of November 1899.
THOMAS
KENDRICK,
Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.