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PARK AND CEM ET ERY. 
DEVICES for DISINFECTING COMMUNITY MAUSOLEUMS 
The rapid promotion of the community 
mausoleum business, and the criticisms 
that have been directed against the doubt- 
ful character of mausoleum interment as 
regards permanence and sanitation have 
led to a number of attempts to provide 
disinfecting arrangements or disinfecting 
fluids for the crypts, and two recent pa- 
tents for devices of this character are 
illustrated here. 
William R. Clayton, of Chicago has 
been grnated , patent No. 1,003,223 for 
a “mausoleum” which pertains more par- 
ticularly to a system of removing all 
moisture from the body and the interior 
of the casket so as to arrest decaj" by 
drying or desiccation. 
Referring to the drawings — Figure 1 is 
a vertical sectional view, the desiccating 
device being shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is 
a horizontal sectional view on the line 
2 — 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary 
end elevation showing the desiccating 
apparatus in operating position. Fig. 4 is 
a sectional elevation through the center of the desiccating 
apparatus. P'ig. 5 is a section on the line 5 — 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 
6 is an elevation of a cover attached to the front end of a 
crypt through which the desiccating apparatus may be con- 
nected with the casket disposed within the crypt ; and Fig. 7 
is a sectional elevation on the line 7 — 7 of Fig. 6. 
The caskets or coffins which are used in the present instance 
are equipped, when the undertaker trims them with an inlet 
pipe 12 ami an outlet 13. The inlet pipe, 
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McKAY PATENT DISINFECTING SYSTEM FOR COMMUNITY 
MAUSOLEUM. 
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CLAYTON PATENT FOR COMMUNITY 
DISINFECTING SYSTEM. 
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MAUSOLEUM AND 
which extends but a short distance into the casket hasj 
its open end slightly upturned, as shown in Fig. 1, while the] 
outlet pipe extends along one side and end of the casket com-1 
inunicating with the interior thereof near the diagonally op-j 
posite corner. The pipe 13 is made of flexible material soj 
that it may accommodate itself to caskets of various sizes. 
The portable desiccating device proper, comprises a base 
18 mounted on suitable rollers 19, and carries a heating orJ 
drying chamber 20, a combustion chamber 21, a fan 22, and] 
a motor 23 operatively connected with the fan. As best 
shown in Fig. 4 the heating chamber 20 is provided with a, 
perforated bottom 24 above which is located a screen 25. 
The other device illustrated here was patented by John B. 
McKay, of Waterloo, la., as No. 1,008,431, and is designed j 
for deodorizing gases generated and disinfecting fluids seeping] 
from the entombed remains. 
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section ; Fig. 3 is a ver- 
tical transverse section. Fig. 3 is a horizontal of the 
left-hand half of the building, taken on the line a — h of Fig. 
1. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of the same half. Fig. 5- 
is an enlarged detail view in vertical longitudinal section, of] 
a portion of one of the crypt floors. Fig. 6 is an enlarged! 
detail of a portion of the wall of a crypt, showing the brack- 
eted receptacle for holding a charge of germicidal material.] 
The crypts are built of reinforced concrete, having re-1 
movable concrete front walls 21 provided with facing-plates] 
23 of marble or other suitable materials. The floor of each] 
crypt is formed to present a concavity or hollow 10 at whose 
lowest part is hollowed a well containing a receptacle 11 con- 
taining an active disinfecting substance adapted to act de-J 
structively upon fluids seeping from a decomposing body inj 
the crypt. The open upper end of the receptacle 11 may bej 
covered by a grating or perforated plate when desired. Itii 
each crypt one or more receptacles 9 are bracketed to the] 
walls, and filled with formaldehyde or other disinfectant. Each] 
crypt is supplied with a receptacle 12 having an inlet] 
adapted to receive gases from a decomposing body and pass 
them out through pipes 13 and 14. The two upper tiers ofj 
crypes 1 and 3 register or align vertically, with their front] 
walls forming the general walls of the sides of the medial] 
apartment 18. 
