Patent ID: 9060912
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: A61G,B21D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of displaying a plurality of caskets comprising the steps of: providing the plurality of caskets each having a reduced height casket shell adapted to receive remains of a deceased and having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls, and a bottom wall that extends below the lower edges of the side walls and end walls and a casket lid closable on the reduced height casket shell, providing a casket display base having a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls, and sequentially positioning each of the plurality of caskets, one at a time, on the casket display base, wherein each of the plurality of caskets and the casket display base are configured such that a combined height of the reduced height casket shell of each of the plurality of caskets positioned on the casket display base and the display base is about equal to a height of a conventional height casket shell, wherein a height dimension of said side walls and end walls of said reduced height casket shell is about one third of the combined height of said reduced height casket shell and display base, and wherein the height dimension of said side walls and end walls of said reduced height casket shell is about two thirds of an overall depth of said reduced height casket shell, said overall depth extending from the upper edges of said side walls and end walls of said reduced height casket shell to the lowermost point on said bottom wall.