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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
NEILL C. CAMERON, OF BEN WHEELER, TEXAS.
METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CONCRETE MONUMENTS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 521,929, dated June 26, 1894.
Application filed January 6, 1894. Serial No. 495,972. (No model.)
To all whom it may concern,: is a detail elevation of a concrete monument
Be it known that I, NEILL C. CAMERON, a manufactured by my improved method and
citizen of the United States, residing at Ben molds. 55
Wheeler, in the county of Van Zandt and Referring to the accompanying drawings,
5 State of Texas, have invented a new and use- A represents a separable base mold in which
ful Method of and Apparatus for Making Con- is formed the base or bases of the monument
crete Monuments, of which the following is a or tombstone to be manufactured, and said
specification. base mold comprises the opposite connected 6o
This invention relates to an improved side and end walls B and C, the bottom or
To method of and apparatus for making concrete base board D, and the top die plate E, which
monuments and tombstones; and it has for forms the detachable cover or top board for
its object to provide novel and efficient means the mold. The opposite side walls or pieces
for molding concrete monuments and tomb- B;are'provided at their upper and lower edges 65
stones, whereby the same can be made much with the outer offstanding bolt flanges F, and
15 harder and therefore much more durable than at their opposite inner ends with the shoulder
the ordinary manufactured or artificial monu- cleats G, against which are placed the ends
ments, which usually are required to set about of the opposite end walls or pieces C, and
four or five months before being sufficiently these end walls C, are clamped tightly in po- 70
hard for use, while at the same time the pres- sition between the side walls B, by the oppo-
20 ent invention provides a method of forming site end tie rods or bolts H, which connect the
the monument or tombstone wherebythe same opposite projecting ends of the side walls B,
can be easily polished off, or otherwise, fin- outside of the end walls C. The side and end
ished, before becoming completely hard and walls thus separablyconnected together form 75
therefore in a condition not susceptible to any the body of the mold which is preferably of a
25 finishing process. To this end the invention rectangular shape, and the bottom or base
therefore contemplates the manufacture of board D, is somewhat larger than the form
an artificial monument or tombstone which completed by the side and end walls, and is
shall have every appearance of a polished removably bolted to the lower bolt flanges F, 80o
and finished natural stone and at the same on the bottom bolts I, while the removable
30 time shall be of substantially the same solid- top die plate or board is similarly clamped
ity and durability. over the top of the mold by the top bolts I'.
With these and other objects in view which The top plate E, of the base mold A, is pro-
will readily appear as the nature of the in- videdonitsbottom facewitharaisedrectangu- 85
vention is better understood, the same con- lar edge form K, having a beveled face Ic, and
35 sists in the novel construction, combination which registers in the rectangular top opening
and arrangement of parts hereinafter more of the mold formed by the side and end walls,
fully described, illustrated and claimed, and in the space inclosed by the rectangular
In the drawings:-Figure l is aperspective edge form K, the said top plate E, is further 90o
view of a mold for forming the base or bases provided with a raised center panel L, which
40 of amonument or tombstone. Fig.2 is a simi- projects into the mold and serves as a form
lar view of the spire mold. Fig. 3 is a verti- or die to make a sunken depression in the top
cal central sectional view of the base mold. of the base being molded, while the rectan-
Fig. 4 is a detail in perspective of the top die gular beveled edge form K, gives a beveled 95
plate or board of the base mold. Fig. 5 is a shape to the top edges of the base. This may
45 horizontal sectional view of the spire mold be clearly seen in Fig. 8 of the drawings, in
near its base or bottom board, the view being which the rectangular concrete base X, is
toward the contracted closed top. Fig. 6 is a formed with a sunken recess or pocket x, in
similar view at the top of the spire mold, its top face and with beveled top edges x', Too
showing the construction of the closed top surrounding the same to give it a finished
5o portion. Fig. 7 is a detail in perspective of appearance.
one of the rectangular slip clamps which hold In molding the base of the monument with
the sides of the spire mold together. Fig; 8 the separable base mold just described, the
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Cameron, Neill C. Method of and Apparatus for Making Concrete Monuments., patent, June 26, 1894; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173755/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.