E05B 65/0057
Locks or fastenings for special use: for caskets, coffins or burial vaults
Official title: {for caskets, coffins or burial vaults (coffins in general A61G17/02)}
E05B65/0057 (Locks or fastenings for special use: for caskets, coffins or burial vaults) appears on 29 US grants and 11 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E05B- Granted patents
- 29
- Published applications
- 11
- Assignees
- 16
- Inventors
- 39
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Patron-accessible memorialization structures16 Jun 2026US 12,655,650 B2Matthews International Corporation
- Storage box latch system and security features8 Oct 2024US 12,110,715 B2Werner Co.
- Patron-accessible memorialization structures24 Sep 2024US 12,098,564 B2
- Patron-accessible memorialization structures28 Feb 2023US 11,591,818 B2Matthews International Corporation
- Fastener-less single door multi-niche dual locking modular columbarium assembly23 Apr 2019US 10,267,055 B2
- Patron-accessible memorialization structures19 Dec 2024US 2024/0417997 A1Matthews International Corporation
- Patron-accessible memorialization structures18 Jan 2024US 2024/0018799 A1
- Storage box latch system and security features22 Dec 2022US 2022/0403682 A1Werner Co.
- Patron-accessible memorialization structures21 Apr 2022US 2022/0120109 A1Matthews International Corporation
- Method to make fastener-less single door multi-niche dual locking modular columbarium assembly10 Oct 2019US 2019/0309535 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Wedge bar locking mechanism for burial casket41US 5,503,439 ABatesville Casket Company, Inc. · 1996
- Access panel latching system33US 6,935,661 B1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2005
- Casket lock structure23US 3,944,267 A1976
- Locking mechanism for burial casket19US 5,060,993 ABatesville Casket Company, Inc. · 1991
- Casket locking crank collapsible into compact configuration19US 5,421,180 ABatesville Casket Company, Inc. · 1995