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Personalized casket ornament display plaque

US6557222B2 · kind B2 · utility

36Cited by
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21Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateOct 5, 2001
Grant dateMay 6, 2003
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Expiry dateOct 5, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61G17/04
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A casket ornament display plaque and associated methods for memorializing a deceased individual. The casket ornament display plaque comprises a decorative board, a casket ornament attached to the board, and indicia attached to the board identifying a deceased to be memorialized. The casket ornament is one having been removed from a casket in which the deceased was displayed. The indicia may be a nameplate bearing the name of the deceased, a photograph of the deceased, or both. A method for memorializing a deceased comprises displaying a casket containing the deceased therein, the casket having at least one selectively removable ornament, removing the ornament from the casket, affixing the ornament to a display plaque and presenting the display plaque and ornament to survivors of the deceased so that the deceased can be remembered by displaying the plaque and ornament.

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