[TAFEFOBIA - fear of being buried alive]. Four patents by Michal Karnicki dedicated to devices that enable uw...

[TAFEFOBIA - fear of being buried alive]. Four patents by Michal Karnicki devoted to devices enabling the hastily buried to free themselves from the coffin from 1896-1897.
Four prints (Patentenschrift) from the Swiss Eidgenössisches Amt für Geistiges Eigentum (Federal Office for the Protection of Intellectual Property) in Bern confirming the granting of a patent to Michal Karnicki of Warsaw for four devices he invented enabling rescue of those buried alive. They made it possible to open a coffin from the inside or to send a rescue signal to the surface using a flag or bell. Each print includes a description of the invention and a drawing of it on the board. Format 26.5x18.5 cm. The assembly contains:
Patent No. 11706. Hermetisch verschliessbarer Metallsarg zur Errettung lebendig Begrabener. 17 II 1896. p. [3], plates ff. 1
Patent No. 12996. sarg zur Rettung lebendig bestatteter Personen. 11 VIII 1896. p. [2], ff. 1
Patent No. 12698. Einrichtung zur Errettung lebendig Begrabener. 17 VI 1896. p. [2], fol. 1
Patent No. 14045. Einrichtung zur Errettung lebendig Begrabener. 10 II 1897, p. [2], fol. tit. 1.
Prints in a common contemporary half cloth binding. All prints with punch holes at left margin. Very good condition.