Multi-function casket system
OwnerGerald F. Williamsoninventor
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Abstract
A casket and burial system for human remains includes a casket fabricated from plastics and polymer composites, such as glass-fiber reinforced plastic. The casket includes a base member, a cover member fitting atop the base, and top and bottom closure panels having one or more ports for use in replacing the ambient atmosphere within the sealed casket with a selected gas or fluid such as nitrogen, or to inject a plastic foam into the free space remaining in the casket. The casket is preferably interred in a vertical attitude as that arrangement allows up to four caskets to fit within a standard grave plot.
Claims2
A casket adapted for the secure transport of human remains and for the burial of those remains without need for a vault, comprising:
- a casket top and a casket base arranged to be joined together to form a hermitically sealed container, the casket base dimensioned to fit a rental casket;
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- a base skirt arranged to cradle the casket base.
A casket adapted for the secure transport of human remains comprising:
- a casket top and a casket base arranged to be joined together to form a hermetically sealed container for holding said remains;
- a bladder attached to the underside of said casket top, the bladder interior being in fluid communication with the atmosphere;
- valve means controlling the flow of gas from the bladder interior to the atmosphere.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.