On this day in 1909 Carl L. Barnes was granted the patent for TRANSPORTATION RECEPTACLE FOR DEAD HUMAN BODIES. U.S. Patent No. 924,029.
The object of the invention is to provide an air-tight receptacle of light rubber or other similar material in which the body can be conveniently packed for transportation either with or without the use of an ordinary casket as desired.
More in detail, the invention consists in such a receptacle, preferably of rubber or other similar imperforate material provided with overlapping inner flaps adapted to be folded in and secured together at their opposing edges, an imperforate sheet or wall rising from the main walls of the receptacle above said inner folded flaps, this sheet being of flexible material so that it may be gathered together and rolled over upon itself, thereby forming an effectually air-tight seal to the receptacle, this in combination with mechanism for finally sealing this imperforate supplemental sheet.
