Patent Model - Improvement in Coffins
Maker and role
Thomas Taylor, Patentee
Production date
Mar 22 1870
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood
Measurements
6 1/2 x 19 x 7" (16.5 x 48.3 x 17.8cm)
Description
"My invention is an improvement upon the coffin patented to Mahlon R. Margerum, dated September 26, 1865, and numbered 50,144 and which is owned by myself and my partners in business, as appears by the Patent Office records."
Taylor's patent formed "a coffin whose sides, each made of a single bent piece, shall at those points where desired be strictly vertical, and at other portions be inclined outward from the coffin-bottom..." (Patent Number 101,181)
Taylor's patent formed "a coffin whose sides, each made of a single bent piece, shall at those points where desired be strictly vertical, and at other portions be inclined outward from the coffin-bottom..." (Patent Number 101,181)
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Object number
2015.14.1158a,b
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