US299665A - John mcgbath - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 7 J. MOG'RATH.

OORPSE HEAD REST.

No. 299,665. Patented June 3, 1884.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MQGRATH, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

CORPSE HEAD-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,665, dated June 3, 1884.

Application filed October 18, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN MCGRATH, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corpse Head-Rests, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a-perspective view of my improvement opened for use. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same folded. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same folded.

The object of this invention is to provide a convenient support for the heads of corpses in corpse-preservers, upon cooling and layingout boards, and upon embalming and dissectconstructed with an elastic bar curved at its adjusted will be held from slipping, as will be hereinafter fully described.

The head-rest is made of two bars or strips,

A B, of spring-brass or other suitable elastic V metal.

The longer bar, A, is concaved in its middle part to receive the head of a corpse, and its end parts are curved downward and The shorter bar, B, is

outward to form feet.

concaved near one end to fit the head of the corpse, and is pivoted at the middle part of the said curvature by a rivet, O, to the bar A at the middle part of its central curvature. The long arm of the bar B is curved downward and outward to form a foot, the curvature being such that the said bar will fit the back of the neck of a corpse.

To the feet of the bars A B are soldered or otherwise secured, or upon them are formed, points D,to prevent the said feet from slipping upon the bottom of the corpse-preserver, or upon the board or table upon which the corpse is laid. With this construction the rest A B can be readily adjusted beneath the head of the corpse, and will yield to pressure so as to support the head in a natural position.

In case it should be desired to turn the head to one side, a pressure of the hand upon the highest point at that side will give the desired position, the points D keeping the rest from slipping out of place. Another advan tage of this construction is that the head-rest can be compactly folded for transportation and storage.

Having'thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A corpse'head-rest formed of the middle concaved bar,A, and end concaved bar, B, pivoted at 0, both bars being provided with feet D, as shown and described.

JOHN MOGRATH.

Witnesses:

J AMES T. GRAHAM, O. SEDGwIoK-

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