Patent Application
20250009586
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The disclosure relates to casket devices and more particularly pertains to a new casket device for burying a deceased individual. The device includes a casket and a lid each comprised of pressed cannabis such that the casket and the lid will decompose. The device includes a rigid insert that can be positioned in the casket. The device includes a plurality of ornaments for decorating a gravesite and an urn, comprised of pressed cannabis, for containing ashes of a deceased individual.
The prior art relates to casket devices including a casket which is comprised of any perishable material. The prior art discloses a casket comprised of a crushed agricultural material, a filling material and an adhesive to bind the filling material and the crushed agricultural material together. The prior art discloses a method of manufacturing a casket which is constructed of a vegetable material. The prior art discloses an ornament design for a cremation urn which has a height that is substantially less than a diameter of the urn.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a casket which is comprised of pressed cannabis thereby facilitating the casket to decompose when the casket is buried with human remains. An insert is insertable into the casket and the insert is comprised of a rigid material such that the insert impart structural rigidity to the casket. A lid is comprised of pressed cannabis thereby facilitating the lid to decompose when the lid and the casket are buried with human remains. A plurality of rods is each of the rods is coupled to and extends away from the casket such that each of the rods can be gripped for carrying the casket.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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Additionally, each of the first lateral side 22 and the second lateral side 24 has a second portion 28 angling inwardly between the first portion 26 and the front side 20. The first portion 26 has a length that is greater than the second portion 28, and the perimeter wall 16 has a distal edge 30 with respect to the bottom wall 14 to define an opening 31 into the casket 12.
An insert 32 is provided that is insertable into the casket 12 and the insert 32 is comprised of a rigid material such that the insert 32 imparts structural rigidity to the casket 12. The rigid material may comprise steel or other metallic alloy. The insert 32 has a basal wall 34 and an exterior wall 36 extending upwardly from the basal wall 34, and the exterior wall 36 conforms to the perimeter wall 16 of the casket 12 such that the insert 32 is inhibited from moving when the insert 32 is positioned in the casket 12.
A lid 38 is provided which is comprised of pressed cannabis thereby facilitating the lid 38 to decompose when the lid 38 and the casket 12 are buried with human remains. The lid 38 has a top surface 40, a bottom surface 42 and a perimeter edge 44 extending between the top surface 40 and the bottom surface 42, and the perimeter edge 44 has a back side 46, a front side 48, a first sidelong side 50 and a second sidelong side 52. Each of the first sidelong side 50 and the second sidelong side 52 has angled portions 54 which conform to the first portion 26 and the second portion 28 of a respective one of the first lateral side 22 and the second lateral side 24 of the casket 12. The perimeter edge 44 angles inwardly between the bottom surface 42 and the top surface 40, and the bottom surface 42 rests on the distal edge of the perimeter wall 16 of the casket 12 when the lid 38 is positioned on the casket 12.
A plurality of rods 56 each of the rods 56 is coupled to and extends away from the casket 12 to be gripped for carrying the casket 12. Each of the rods 56 has a coupled end 58 and a free end 60, and the coupled end 58 of each of the rods 56 is coupled to an outside surface 62 of the perimeter wall 16 of the casket 12. The plurality of rods 56 includes a set of first rods 64, a set of second rods 66 and a set of third rods 68. Each of the first rods 64 is positioned on the first portion 26 of a respective one of the first lateral side 22 and the second lateral side 24 of the perimeter wall 16, and each of the first rods 64 is positioned proximate the rear side 18 of the perimeter wall 16.
Each of the second rods 66 is positioned on the first portion 26 of a respective one of the first lateral side 22 and the second lateral side 24 of the perimeter wall 16. Additionally, each of the second rods 66 is positioned closer to the second portion 28 of the respective first lateral side 22 and the second lateral side 24 than the rear side 18 of perimeter wall 16. Each of the third rods 68 is positioned on the second portion 28 of a respective one of the first lateral side 22 and the second lateral side 24, and each of the third rods 68 is centrally positioned proximate the front side 20 of the perimeter wall 16. Each of the first rods 64, the second rods 66 and the third rods 68 has a unique length with respect to each other such that the free end 60 of each of the rods 56 that are positioned on the first lateral side 22 of the perimeter wall 16 are aligned with each other. Additionally, the free end 60 of each of the rods 56 that are positioned on the second lateral side 24 of the perimeter wall 16 are aligned with each other.
A plurality of ornaments 70 is each comprised of pressed cannabis thereby facilitating the ornaments 70 to decompose after a sufficient duration of time. The plurality of ornaments 70 includes a plurality of sets of ornaments 70 and each of the sets of ornaments 70 has a unique structure with respect to each other. Furthermore, respective ones of the ornaments 70 that are chosen by a user are positionable at a gravesite at which the casket 12 and the insert 32 and the lid 38 are buried to enhance the ornamental appearance of the gravesite. As is most clearly shown in
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In use, the insert 32 is placed into the casket 12 to contain the human remains and the lid 38 is positioned on the casket 12. Each of the rods 56 is gripped by pall bearers to position the casket 12 in a grave. Each of the casket 12 and the lid 38 decompose after a sufficient duration of time to reduce the environment impact of traditional casket 12 materials and burial ceremonies. Ornaments 70 chosen by the user can be positioned at the grave site to memorialize the deceased and to reflect the user's thoughts and feelings toward the deceased. Furthermore, the urn 80 can be employed to contain the deceased's ashes when the deceased is cremated.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
