Coffin, vault and mausoleum module combination
OwnerFernando Valle Arizpeinventor
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Abstract
A coffin for properly displaying and transporting a corpse is combined with features of a burial vault or crypt so that only the single unit is needed to inter the corpse. The coffin-vault combination, although inexpensively thin walled, is constructed in such a manner, with particular reinforcing and interlocking means, that numerous units may be stacked, one above another, above or below ground. When above ground they may constitute modules for constructing a mausoleum. Each unit has valves which may be connected to conduits and fluid and gas control units for the single unit, or a column, or columns of units constituting an entire mausoleum.
Claims5
A coffin, vault, and mausoleum module combination comprising a generally coffin shaped structure having bottom, wall, and top lid structure, portions of the wall being free and uncovered by the lid structure and reinforced to be particularly resistant to compressive forces in the vertical direction, the bottom having depending tongue structure and the lid structure having groove structure for receiving the tongue structure of the module above when the modules are stacked, the lid structure comprising a cover with a window and a longitudinal groove said longitudinal groove being greater in length in the longitudinal direction of the cover than in the direction perpendicular thereto, a second cover for closing the window said second cover having a horizontal groove which extends perpendicular to the longitudinal groove, the depending tongue structure fitting in to the said horizontal groove and lying above the reinforced side portions, said bottom including further depending tongue structure in the longitudinal direction for fitting into the said longitudinal groove.
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