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US 6,145,672 AGranted
Memorial display unit and method for displaying memorials
AssigneeThe York Group, Inc.
InventorsDouglas E. Bachman, Lynn A. Taggart, Alton F. Doody
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AssigneeThe York Group, Inc.
InventorsDouglas E. Bachman, Lynn A. Taggart, Alton F. Doody
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A memorial merchandise display unit and method of displaying the unit that maximizes the types and styles of memorial merchandise comprising two vertical, parallel, spaced wing walls and a vertical back wall attached to a rear end of each wing wall. Attached to the back wall and/or the wing walls is at least one angled display board to engage the line of sight of a prospective purchaser and provide a location for the multi-planar display of a variety of memorial merchandise, death care merchandise, decedent confinement chambers, vases, and visual materials. Additionally, the unit may further contain a cornice and/or at least one illumination source to improve the visibility and notoriety of the memorial merchandise. Alternatively, at least two display units are combined to create a modular memorial merchandise display unit capable of depicting a plurality of death care merchandise, decedent confinement chambers, and visual materials design lines. This configuration allows the consumer an opportunity to compare a plurality of death care merchandise design lines in one setting.
A merchandise display unit comprising a display area formed in front of a vertical back wall having a front surface and between two vertical, parallel, spaced wing walls attached to said back wall at a rear end of each wing wall, said display unit further comprising a cornice and a plurality of display surfaces extending into the space formed between said vertical back wall and said spaced wing walls and below said cornice, said surfaces including at least one horizontal surface for displaying merchandise and at least one display board, said display board being angled with regard to said vertical back wall and having a slope that is neither parallel nor perpendicular to the plane of the vertical back wall.
A method of displaying death care merchandise which comprises forming a backdrop for said death care merchandise between at least a vertical back wall and two side walls providing display units within a space formed between said back wall and said side walls, said display units comprising at least one horizontal surface and at least one sloped surface, which slope is neither parallel nor perpendicular to a plane of said vertical back wall and displaying said death care merchandise on said horizontal surface and displaying on said sloped surface at least one material selected from cemetery memorials, grave markers and visual materials.
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