USD10401S - Design for lifting-handles - Google Patents

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N. HAYDEN. Lifting-Handles.

No.10,40|. Patented Jan. 15,1878.

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NEHEMIAIT HAYDEN, OF ESSEX, CONNECTICUT.

DESIGN FOR LlFTlNG-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Design N 0. 10,401, dated January 15,1878; application filed January 3,1878. [Term of Patent 14 years.]

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEHEMIAH HAYDEN, of Essex, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Design for Lifting-Handles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, front View Fig. 2, vertical section.

This invention relates to a design for lifting-handles, such as are used on coffins, and commonly called coffin-handles, and consists in the configuration of the handle, as shown, and hereinafter described.

The plate A is in form a parallelogram. The handle is a frame of corresponding form, composed of an upper bar, B, and lower bar C, joined at the ends, and representing the border or frame of a panel. The lower bar is raised for the purpose of lifting, as shown in broken lines, Fig. 2. The mechanical construction is, however, the subject of another application.

The bars B C and the ends appear as moldings on the face of the base and as an ornamentation of such base. A recess, D, is made in the center, and may be entirely through the plate, or filled in any desirable manner.

While it is preferred that the ends of the plate and the connections between the two bars B C should be straight and forming right angles, the shape of the ends is not essential. They may be curved or otherwise shaped, it only being essential that the handle or lower bar C shall appear to form a continuation or part of the band or border of the panel.

I claim The herein-described design for coffin-handle, consisting of a base on which the handle is placed, the handle representing a part of the band or border of a panel on the face of the plate, substantially as described, and shown in the accompanying illustration.

N EHEMIAH HAYDEN.

Witnesses JOHN E. EARLE, H. A. KITsoN.

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