IMPROVED METHOD OF PROTECTING THE INTERIOR OF GRAVES AND IN COVERS FOR THE SAME
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Walters of Kingston Kingswear in the County of
Devon for an invention of IMPROVED METHOD OF PROTECTING THE INTERIOR
OF GRAVES AND IN COVERS FOR THE SAME
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Walters at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th March 1882.
JAMES WALTERS of Kingston Kingswear in the county of Devon
IMPROVED
METHOD OF PROTECTING THE INTERIOR OF GRAVES AND IN COVERS FOR THE
SAME
The object of this Invention is lining the interior of graves such as the side and
end walls and bottom with metal galvanized or otherwise protected, said metal
being in sections and of such shape (but preferably of coffin shape) and modes of
attachment to one another that only a portion or the whole may be prepared and
kept ready for the insertion of fresh coffins metal covers, corresponding in shape
and capable of easy attachment being used in connection with the side and end
walls. The top or outer edges of the covers are so made that supposing one coffin
has been lowered into my metal walled lower part the cover can be permanently
affixed in position and other sections of my metal walls can be built upon it and
so on, to keep the several coffins apart and hermetically enclosed each in their own
compartment.
For the connections of one section to another I rivet clips and sockets on the
corresponding edges and ends so that one may engage into the other with facility
or I form side recesses in one section and fit lugs or bolts on the other for the
same purpose
By my invention the expense of brickwork and stone setting are dispensed
with and also that usually incurred for reopening a grave. All effluvia is
retained within the covered sections instead of permeating the porous sides as at
present and escaping at any disturbance of the surrounding soil.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Walters in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th September 1882.
JAMES WALTERS of Kingston, Kingswear, in the County of Devon. IMPROVED
METHOD OF PROTECTING THE INTERIOR OF GRAVES AND IN COVERS FOR THE
SAME.
The object of this Invention is lining the interior of graves such as the side and
end walls and bottom with metal, galvanized or otherwise protected said metal
being in sections and of such shape, (but preferably of coffin shape) and mode of
attachment to one another that only a portion or the whole may be prepared and
kept ready for the insertion of fresh coffins, metal covers corresponding in shape
and capable of easy attachment being used in connection with the sides and end
walls. The tops or outer edges of the covers are so made that supposing one
coffin has been lowered into my metal walled lower part the cover can be
permanently affixed in position and other sections of my metal walls can be built
upon it and so on; to keep the several coffins apart and hermetically enclosed each
in their own compartment. For the connections of one section to another I rivet
clips and sockets on the corresponding edges and ends so that one may engage into
the other with facility or I form side recesses in one section and fit lugs or bolts
on the other for the same purpose.
By my invention the expense of brickwork and stone setting are dispensed with
and also that usually incurred for reopening a grave. All effluvia is retained
within the covered sections instead of permeating the porous sides as at present
and escaping at any disturbance of the surrounding soil.
The manner of carrying my invention into practice is represented in the annexed
sheet of drawings.
Figure 1 is a part elevation of a sectional grave protector and coffin receptacle
with one section on another to show how they can be built up to any desired
height. A A are two sides of flat metal, say cast or wrought iron, plain or
galvanized or otherwise coated. B B are shoulder pieces, C is the head piece and D
the foot piece these being slid into recesses in vertically arranged sockets E E at
the edges said sockets having apertures for the reception of plugs or pins F F
projecting from the lower edges of each socket piece to engage in apertures in their
upper parts as shown. The lid by which each sectional casing is divided or
partitioned off has apertures as at Figure 2, said apertures corresponding to those
in sockets so that the plugs or pins F F which also pass through them lock the
lid firmly in position. Figure 3 represents a casing having the two sides, shoulders,
and bead and foot as one article, say, of wrought iron with sockets E E shaped on
the upper portion and with clip studs F F on the lower portion to engage in the
apertures of the next casing which may be below, the lid for this arrangement may
be similar to that above described or the section may have a top rim for the
réception of the lid as shown at Figures 4 and 5. The above are only given as
examples of what I consider novel and of my invention therefore I do not limit
myself to those methods there being many other arrangements of building up or
fixing metallic walls in graves in sections for the reception of coffins and for
separating the coffins from each other in a permanent and perfect sanitary condition
as heretofore referred to.
Having now described the nature of my said invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim;
The construction and arrangement of sectional receptacles for coffins and as
protectors for graves as described and substantially as shown in the annexed

page_text: drawings. Secondly. I claim, The interlocking of the several sectional pieces in
the manner set forth and the method by which each section can be isolated from
another section by the affixture of a lid which also forms the bottom of the next
upper section as and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof I the said James Walters have hereunto set my hand and
seal this seventh day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty-two.
JAMES WALTERS (LS.