Method of assembling a casket from a foldable blank
AssigneeVandor Group, Inc.
InventorJustin Davis
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Abstract
A casket structure and method use features built into a corrugated paper blank to temporarily retain the assembled casket body configuration while a fastening element is administered to secure the corrugated paper blank into the casket body configuration. A blank configured for such a casket structure includes a bottom panel, side panels, end panels, and flaps foldably connected to the side panels. When the blank is assembled into the casket body configuration, each flap overlaps a corresponding end panel. The end panels and overlapping flaps include a key-receiver arrangement in which a receiver is configured to engage a foldable key to at least temporarily hold each overlapping flap in direct engagement with a corresponding end panel to retain the foldable blank in the casket body configuration.
Claims12
A method for constructing a casket from a foldable blank having a bottom panel, two end panels, two side panels and a flap at each opposite end of each side panel, in the blank, comprising:
- folding the two end panels and two side panels upward relative to the bottom panel to define a box configuration;
- folding the flap at each end of each side panel to overlap a corresponding end panel;
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- for each overlapping flap, advancing a key, foldably connected to one of the corresponding end panel and the overlapping flap, into a through-hole defined in the other of the corresponding end panel and the overlapping flap to at least temporarily hold the overlapping flap in direct engagement with the corresponding end panel to retain the foldable blank in the box configuration;
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- wherein the step of advancing the key creates a through-hole in said one of said corresponding end panel and said overlapping flap, and the method comprises an additional step of engaging a fastener that extends through each through-hole in the end panel and the through-hole in each overlapping flap.
A method for constructing a casket from a foldable blank having a bottom panel, two end panels, two side panels and a flap at each opposite end of each side panel, in the blank, comprising:
- folding the two end panels and two side panels upward relative to the bottom panel to define a box configuration, each of the two end panels including two spaced-apart through-holes;
- folding the flap at each end of each side panel to overlap a corresponding end panel, in which the flap includes a key foldably connected thereto, and wherein the flap is folded so that the key is aligned with one of the through-holes in the corresponding end panel;
- for each flap, advancing the key into the aligned through-hole to at least temporarily hold the overlapping flap in direct engagement with the end panel to retain the foldable blank in the box configuration, wherein advancing the key creates a through-hole in the overlapping flap;
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- engaging a fastener between each through-hole in the end panel and the through-hole in each overlapping flap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.