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US 4,780,940 AGranted
Viewing pouch particularly for bodies dead of a communicable disease
OwnerWilliam G. Jayinventor
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This viewing pouch is a box made of flexible material having a part of the top panel of flexible transparent material and is suitable for containing a body from pickup at hospital, through funeral service and viewing and on to crematory for cremation. While the unit is of flexible material and may be folded into a compact bundle when empty and later conforms to the dead body in bag-like fashion, elongated elements are adapted to be inserted in loops of fabric on the top panel to stiffen and support the top panel of the pouch to give it a dressy and formal appearance when it is installed in a casket during viewing. The pouch is particularly suited to contain the body of a person dead from a communicable disease, because from hospital through viewing to crematory, the body need not be removed from the pouch. This avoids risks of communicating the disease to others.
A collapsible viewing pouch comprising an assembly of readily flexible sheet material defined by a bottom panel, side panels and top panel and adapted to fit into a box-shaped burial casket having a base and walls extending upward from the base, the top panel of the assembly having a zipper fastener extending around three sides, so that when the zipper is unzipped the part of the top panel defined by the zipper can be flapped open, said part being of flexible transparent sheet material at least in the area which would be over and align with head and upper torso of a deceased person within the pouch, the top panel having secured across it spaced parallel tubes of flexible sheet material, and a pair of removable rigid elongated elements disposed in the tubes respectively and adapted to have their ends extend beyond the tubes and rest on the tops of the adjacent walls of the casket respectively, whereby the top panel may be suspended from the elements in planar condition to make the pouch appear as a rigid, box-like structure.
For use in a funeral casket, a viewing pouch adapted to enclose a dead body, the pouch being made entirely of flexible sheet material having a bottom panel, side panels and a top panel with a window of transparent flexible material, shaping means selectively activateable entirely from the outside of the pouch, for causing the entire top panel to assume a planar condition spaced above the dead body, wherein the shaping means comprising spaced parallel tubes of flexible sheet material secured across the top panel and rigid elongated elements extending through the tubes respectively, each of the elements having its opposite ends resting on the top of the side walls respectively of the casket.
Body-viewing apparatus including a funeral casket comprising a container having a bottom wall and upstanding side walls, and a viewing pouch disposed in the casket and comprising a closed container adapted to contain a dead body and made of flexible sheet material comprising a bottom panel, side panels and a top panel, the top panel having a transparent window part, and shaping means for holding the top panel in planar condition above the body and comprising spaced, parallel tubes of flexible sheet material secured across the top panel and rigid elongated elements extending through the tubes respectively, each elongated element having its opposite ends resting respectively on the opposite side walls of the casket.
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