Modular casket

US6145175A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Batesville Services, Inc. · US

Inventors

• John R. Enneking · Batesville, US
• Daniel McAtee · Hamilton, US
• David Wellman · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 22, 1999
• Grant date: Nov 14, 2000
• Expiry date: Feb 22, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D5/22
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A cardboard material casket including a cardboard material inner box having a bottom, two opposed sides and two opposed ends. A cardboard material outer wrap has an outer directed side with a finish different from a finish of the cardboard material inner box. The outer wrap has a bottom located below the bottom of the inner box. Side and end walls of the outer wrap extend from the bottom of the outer wrap up and over outer surfaces of the side and end walls of the inner box and then down and over inner surfaces of the side and end walls of the inner box. The outer directed surfaces of the bottom and side and end walls of the casket box and inner surfaces of the side and end walls of the casket box present the finish of the outer directed side of the outer wrap.