Patent ID: 6317943
Filing Date: 2001-11-20
Classification: A61G

Abstract:
A funeral casket in the form of a box, comprising a body-receiving portion and a lid portion for covering the body-receiving portion, the body-receiving portion being of foldable construction such that the body-receiving portion is collapsible to adopt a relatively compact collapsed condition and may be erected to adopt a relatively upright erected condition, said body-receiving portion comprises a folded blank, the blank comprising a base of oblong-rectangular form, the base having opposite ends and opposite sides, a pair of first extensions disposed at said opposite ends of the base and connected to the base by respective first extension fold lines, the first extensions having been folded inwards on said first extension fold lines so as to form opposite ends of the body-receiving portion, and a pair of second extensions disposed at said opposite sides of said base and connected to the base by respective second extension fold lines and folded inwards about said second extension fold lines so as to form sides of the body-receiving portion, said first and second extensions are bounded by extension margins that extend transversely of said extension fold of the respective extension, and adjacent said extension margins of said first and second extensions are connected together by respective corner connection means, wherein at least one wall pair of a pair of end walls and a pair of side walls comprises articulated wall portions which fold relative to one another on bringing the body-receiving portion from the collapsed condition to the erected condition, said articulated wall portions being connected by a pair of inclined fold lines which each extend from a corner of said base at opposite ends of said walls of said one wall pair, said inclined fold lines being inclined relative to the respective said extension fold line of said articulated wall, whereby the other wall pair of said pairs of end walls and side walls maintains the same outline shape on collapsing of said body-receiving portion by folding of said walls of said other pair about the respective said extension fold lines.