| UNTTED STATES PATENT OF'F'TCE.

FRANZ WESTER, OF NEWARK, NEW" JERSEY.

1MPROVED BURIAL--CASE.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. $1,43', dated August 25, 1868.
To all aphom it ?madgy c0mace}°m:
Be it known that I, FRANZ WESTER, of ladder, COffin
H, by Which the person laid in the
may, on returning life, ascend to the
NeWark, in the county of ESSex, and State of Surface of the earth; and the Said tube haS
NeW JerSey, hawe ? invented a new and useful near its top a bell, I, from which a cord, IK, is
Impr0wement in Burial-Cases , or Coffins for Suspended, the lower
' the dead; and do hereby declare that the fol placed in the hand ofend the
of Said cord being
person laid in the "
"lowing is a full, clear, and".exact description cofin, as shown in the drawings. On the in
of the Same, reference being had to the accom
` panying draWings, making part of this Speci · actuated by a spring, M, which closesdoor,ID,
Side of the cofin-lid is a sliding glaSS
fication, of which-- ? •'
the c0f*
fin, excluding
Figure 1 is a top view; IR'ig. 2, a side elewa drawn from the coffin. the air when the tube C is, with*
tioll;Fig. 8, an under Side wiew of the lid;
· and Fig. 4, a longitudinal and wertical Section. TheTheSupposed operation of my invention is aS folloWS:
: "The nature of this invention consists in A of the cofin,corpse being laid in the body
placing on the lid of the coffin, and direotly hand of the corpse, thecord and the K placed in the
cord is_text_draWn
ower the face of the body laid therein, a Square through
'.tube,Which extends from the coffin up through" I, and thethetube tube C and attached to the bell
alld Over the. Surface of the grave, said tube · lid~ of the coffin.C placed in the baseID, on the
The cofiin is now lowered
containing. a ladder and a cord, one end of
Saidl cord being placed in the hand of the per into the grave, and the grave filled up to_the
air-inlets FIF'." Now, should the person laid ?
SOn laid in the coffin, and the other eind of in the coffin,
Said COrd being attached to a bell on the top cend from theoncoffin returning life, desire_to aS
.. of the Square tube, so that, Should a person | face, he can do so byand the grave to the Sur
be interred ere life, is extinct, lhe can, on re but, if too weak to ascend byofthe means the ladder H; ·
ladder, he
COvery to consciousness, ascend from the grave can pull the cord in his hand, and_ring the
, and the coffin by the ladder; or, if not able to bell I, giving the desired alarm for help, and
ascend by said ladder, ring' the bell, thereby thus SaYe himself from premature death , by
giving an alarm, and thus save himself from being buried alive. Should life be extinct
| prelmature burial and death; and if, on in- · the tube Cused
is remowed, the door I closed, ?d | ~
| Spection, life is extinct, the tube is withdrawn, the tube for a similar purpoSe. . .
the Slidling door closed, ·and· the tube
al Similar purpose. ~
used~
for· . Having described my invention, what I
In the said drawings, Adenotes the body of ters claim as new, and desire to Secure by Let
Patent, is- ~ ~ · ·
the coffin; B, the lid. O represents a Square 1. The application of the tube_C and ladder'
tube, which is Seated in a Square ba:Sø. T), at H to a burial-case or coffin, Substantially as ·
tached to the lid of the coffim, and . ]n(•ld in and
plage by a Spring-bar,B, connected with, flue ' 2. for the purposes described and Set forth•
Sliding glaSS door fu. ''This square tube {} ex der H,Inthe combination with the tube C and lad
cord K and bell, for the purpoSeS
tends from the lid of the coffin to an?l th0we i substantially as set forth" and described.
the Surface of the grave, and has air-imlet, .. In testimony. whereof I have hereunto Set
0pomingS F H', which communicate with the | my signature this 9th day of July, 1868.
body of the cofin, and has also a glass door, gnature '''RANz'WË$?BR.
· · {, On its top, which may be easily raised or WitnésSeS: ~ · ·
Seen through, for ipspection of the person. A• NE}ILT · · ·
laid' in the c0fin. The said tube contains a ? * R. SANGwfEr8TER.