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US 4,068,425 AGranted
Modular mausoleum
AssigneePermacrete Products Corporation
InventorEdward S. Czorniak
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AssigneePermacrete Products Corporation
InventorEdward S. Czorniak
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A multiple crypt or vault burial mausoleum features precast concrete modules each having a horizontal shelf and depending vertical walls to define plural crypts when in stacked relationship with other modules in a multiple level arrangement. Each vertical module wall contains an embedded steel leg structure near the forward and rear quarter points of the module extending from top to bottom thereof. In the multiple tier mausoleum constructed from stacked modules, steel support and bearing legs extend continuously from top to bottom in the structure. Rectangular steel shims are intervened with the embedded legs of each module to render the entire leg structure continuous. The arrangement greatly minimizes settlement normally encountered with shim and grout supports and reduces the binding of shutters dependent on the system for support. The solid block shims can also resist shear stresses caused by lateral forces which grout cannot resist.
In a modular multi-level concrete structure formed from vertically stacked cast concrete modules, each module having a vertical load bearing wall in alignment with like walls of other modules in said structure, the improvement comprising a continuous top to bottom load bearing leg structure within said aligned vertical walls of the multi-level structure, said leg structure comprising at least one vertical rod embedded in the vertical wall of each module and extending substantially from the top to the bottom thereof, and a load bearing shim interposed between the opposing ends of the rods in adjacent modules to form therewith said continuous leg structure from top to bottom of said multi-level structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.