USD16576S - Design for a coffin-handle socket - Google Patents

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W. M. SMITH.

GOFFIN HANDLE SOCKET.

%D16,576. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM M. SMITH, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE MERIDEN BRITANNIA COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DESIGN FOR A COFFlN-HANDLE SOCKET.

GPBCIPICATION forming part of Design N0. 16,576 dated March 16, 1886.

Application llled December 28, 1885. Serial No. 186,968. Term of patent 14 years.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM M. SMITH, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Design for a Coffin-Handle Socket; and I do hereby declare the following when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to he a full, clear, and exact description of lhe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a face view of the socket; Fig. 2, a vertical section on line a: at; Fig. 3, atransverse section on line 3 y.

This invention relates to a design for the socket by which handles are attached to coffins; and it consists in the configuration of the socket-plate, as shown in the accompanying illustration. The two 'vertical edges of the socket are substantially straight and parallel.

The upper and lower ends are rounded-that is, of segment shape. The surface of the socket is convex, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3; but at the two sides the surface is chamfered-that is, inclines from the face backward to the edges, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3.

The convex surface with the chamfered sides constitutes the peculiar characteristic of this design.

I claim- The herein-described design for coffin-handle socket, presenting a convex surface, the vertical sides substantially parallel, the sides chamfered or inclined from the face backward to the edges, as shown in the accompanying illustration.

WILLIAM M. SMITH.

Vitnesses:

A. BARKER, GEo. H. WILoox.

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