US1115284A - Mausoleum. - Google Patents

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J. P. CGLLETT.

MAUSOLEUM.

APPLIGATION FILED JAN. 26, 1914.

Patented. Got. 27, 1914.

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MAUSOLEUM.

APPLICATION FILED 11111.26, 1914.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JONATHAN P. COL- Li'i'rr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenville, in the county of'Darke andl State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Mausoleums, of which the following is a` specification. j

rlhe object of this invention generally is to provide certain improvements 'in mausoleums for community use which render them more simple in construction and use and more sanitary than those heretofore proposed or in use.

Especial objects of the invention are to provide improved means for carrying o and disposing of obnoxious gases and seepage Jfrom sealed crypts and for preventing the escape of gases from sealed crypts to unsealed ones or into the main structure of the mausoleum.

The invention is embodied in the construction herein illustrated and described,y

the features of novelty being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part hereof-Figure 1 is a view in vertical section taken longitudinally of the crypts or ACatacombs and also showing in elevation the well into which seepage and gases flow.

Fig. 2 is a view in vertical section taken transversely of the crypts or Catacombs andv also showing in vertical section the well into which the seepage and gases flow. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail on a larger scale to illustrate the frangible temporary closure-of the seepage and gas outlet for the crypt. Fig. 4 is a detail in side view, partly in section on a larger scale, of the glass closure.

In the views 5 designates a suitable foundation upon which the main building is erected.

6 designates the outer wall and 7 the roof of the building. Y

The crypts or Catacombs 8 are formed of cement in laterally connected tiers. tween the floor and the lowermost crypt is an air passage 9 and between the outer wall 6 and crypt structure is a vertical air passage 10 that opens near the roof. The passages 9 and 10 lead one into the other, if degood ventilation of the building. The crypt structure can be erected on an insulator 12 of asphaltum orother suitable material to Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed. January 26, 1&1/1. Serial No. 814,276.

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18 designates 'the outer lwell wall which is built of loosely laid brick, while 14 designates an inner well wall also of loosely laid brick, said inner well being of considerably smaller diameter than theouter well to form an annular space between them. In the inner well is placed an ample quantity of quick lime while in the outer well is placed a suiicient quantity of charcoal to cooperate with the linie in purifying or destroying as far1 as practicable the liquids flowing into the we l. l

Embedded in the vertical wall at the inner or permanently closed end of each tier is a carrying-off pipe 15 from which extends a. short branch 16 embedded in the floor of each of the crypts. The branch pipes 16 each open in a depression or pocket 17 at the inner end of the floor of one of the crypts material having a thinned wall as at 18, said tube or bulb projecting above the Hoor of the crypt from above the line of the thinned wall of the closure and in position to be certainly broken or removed when the casket is shoved in the crypt thus providing an opening to the branch pipe for the exit of gasesand fluids generated by the decomposition of the body contained in the casket and crypt. Any suitable material, cement, for example, can be used, as at 19, to seal the frangible tube or bulb in position. rThe pipes 15 lead into a larger pipe 20 arranged in the floor.l said larger pipe being directed to drain liquids intothe inner well and also to discharge gases into the upper portion of the main well.

Leading from the main well is a pipe 21 that is extended through the Hoor and upward to near the root where its upper open end is incased in a vessel 22 containing a grmicide-formaldehyde for example. rlhis pipe 21 affords a vent for any excess of gases carried to, generated in and not disposed of in the main' well, and the germicicle in the vessel renders such gases innocuous it any nal escape.

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24 containing appropriate or desired inscriptions respecting the deceased.

From the construction shown anddescribed it Will be observed no noxious gases, vapors or liquids can' escape from the crypt containing a corpse into an open crypt or into the building-g.n Where movable valves are used for the purpose of closing the vents of the orypts my experience has been that The gases and liquids flowing into the 4 Well are first subjected to the lime and charcoal treatment and then slowly absorbed by the surrounding earth.

What I claim is- 1. In a mausoleum containing a plurality of distinct crypts or Catacombs, the combination of a carrying-ofi' pipe, a branch from said pipe leading into each of several of the crypts, and a closure for the ends of said branch pipes consisting of a frangible material projecting into the crypt in position to be broken by contact therewith of the inserted casketv whereby`- communication is established between the crypt and carrying-ofi' pipe.

3. In a mausoleum containing a plurality of distinct crypts or Catacombs, the combination of a carrying-off pipe, a disinfecting well into which said pipe discharges, a branch from said pipe leading into each of the several crypts, a closure for the ends of said branch pipes consisting of a hermetically sealed :trangible material projecting into the crypt, a pipe leading from said well to carry off surplus ases from said Well andi a disinfecting cham er into which said lasty named pipe discharges.

4. In al mausoleum containing a plurality of distinct crypts or Catacombs, the combination of a carrying-0H' pipe, a branch from said pipe leading into each of several of the crypts at the Hoor and a frangible closure Jfor the end o'each of said branch pipes to project above the Hoor, said closure having its wall of annularly reduced thickness at a line below the plane of the main oor of the crypt.

JONATHAN P. COLLETT.

Witnesses:

O. P. WoLvER'roN, E. T. EVANS.

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