Grave stone marker with protected viewing chamber
OwnerIzak Du Bruyninventor
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Abstract
A gravestone marker that includes a viewing chamber for receiving photographs and other small objects such as memorabilia honoring the deceased that includes a cement base frame with a hollow interior of a predetermined size and shape for placing on a concrete slab above the grave of the deceased, and a sheet of transparent bulletproof material that can be glass or plastic permanently attached by concrete epoxy adhesive to the concrete base frame forming a chamber beneath the transparent sheet. The chamber can receive photographs and other objects that can be viewed by persons standing at the gravesite. The strength of the transparent sheet of material can prevent vandalism or theft at the gravesite.
Claims3
A permanent gravestone marker having a protected viewing chamber for photographs and memorabilia comprising;
- a concrete slab for a gravesite;
- said concrete slab having a flat upper surface;
- a rectangular concrete base frame having an upper surface and having a first elongated rectangular frame member, a second elongated rectangular frame member perpendicular to said first frame member, a third elongated rectangular frame member perpendicular to said second elongated frame member, and a fourth rectangular elongated frame member perpendicular to said third elongated frame member;
- said concrete base frame, said first, second, third, and fourth elongated rectangular frame members joined together to form a concrete rectangular base frame, said concrete base first, second, third, and fourth, elongated rectangular frame members being the same width;
- said concrete rectangular base frame permanently attached to said flat upper surface of said concrete slab forming a rectangular viewing chamber;
- a granite rectangular frame having first, second, third, and fourth elongated rectangular granite frame members joined together to form a rectangular granite frame, said first, second, third, and fourth elongated rectangular granite frame members being smaller in width than said concrete base frame elongated rectangular members and of equal length to said concrete base elongated rectangular frame members;
- said rectangular concrete base frame having an exterior periphery in a rectangular shape and said granite rectangular frame having an exterior periphery rectangular in shape;
- said rectangular granite frame connected to said concrete base frame member upper surface forming an L-shaped ledge between said granite rectangular frame and the upper surface of said concrete base frame and said rectangular concrete base frame exterior periphery being co-planar with said granite rectangular frame exterior periphery;
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- a rectangular sheet of transparent visually clear bullet proof material firmly connected to said granite frame and said concrete base frame along the L-shaped ledge formed by the rectangular granite frame and the rectangular concrete base frame, covering said viewing chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.