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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8161694 | Burial crypt for cremains and method of fabrication An improved burial crypt for cremains designed to be placed below grade within a standard cemetery burial plot, suitable for containing a plurality of burial urns; the crypt comprised of a container, an access means, and a support means, with the container being sea... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7908800 | Modular columbarium A modular columbarium has side panels joined to front uprights by bolts on bent front tabs on the front panels and, respectively, the panels are joined to the rear uprights by L-shaped tabs that can be housed in slot in the rear uprights. The bottoms of the front up... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7234211 | Mortise and tenon casket with pins A casket assembly includes a container and a two-piece lid. The two-piece lid includes a superior lid that covers the anterior end of the casket and an inferior lid that covers the opposite end. The container includes a bottom panel, an inferior end panel, a superio... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7213311 | Mortise and tenon casket A casket assembly includes a container and a two-piece lid. The two-piece lid includes a superior lid that covers the anterior end of the casket and an inferior lid that covers the opposite end. The container includes a bottom panel, an inferior end panel, a superio... | 05/08/2007 |
| 6553727 | Columbarium A columbarium for cremation remains constructed of at least one unit which includes a generally planar bottom surface and at least five vertical outer sides with each side having a corner. A cover supported by a plurality of walls which, along with said o... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6474026 | Mausoleum A mausoleum, formed of stone pieces having a plurality of crypts. The mausoleum is formed of a plurality of vertical walls each formed of a stone piece engaged at selected ends to form vertically extending seams. A roof, comprising a plurality of elongate... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6250025 | Assembleable columbarium tower An assembleable repository tower for holding individual quantities of burial remains including a platform base and a first plurality of four upwardly extending and elongate members. Each of the first members further includes a webbed configuration definin... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6117051 | Exercise bench An exercise bench assembly having at least one leg block and a platform. The leg block has a pair of opposing laterally directed projections and the platform has a pair of projection receiving slots for respectively receiving the projections so that the p... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6105315 | Modular mausoleum and crypt structure and methods of constructing same A mausoleum and method of constructing a mausoleum. The mausoleum may include plurality of vertically extending walls supportable on a surface, wherein at least one vertically extending wall has a plurality of cells integrally formed therein. At least one... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6106439 | Combination foot stepper and bench press device A dual-purpose exercise machine, adapted to alternately condition two different sets of muscles, one device mode being for the legs and buttocks muscle sets (the foot stepper mode), and the other device position being for the pectoral/chest muscles and th... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6076292 | Hybrid grave marker and cremains container A hybrid grave marker and cremains container includes a plurality of side walls, a transparent top cover, and a base, bonded to each other by ultraviolet glue so as to form a hermetic receiving envelope for containing ashes or memorabilia of a deceased pe... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5960524 | Burial container assembly and method for constructing the same A burial container assembly with a lid constructed of a top and a plurality of sides extending from the top and which defines a first shell having a hollowed interior and a downwardly facing perimeter edge. A base is likewise provided with a bottom and bo... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5881505 | Free-standing, prefabricated cremation memorial for cremation remains A free-standing cremation memorial for holding cremated remains has a plurality of chambers in a vertical portion of the structure as well as a number of chambers in the base unit. A base member prefabricated of aluminum framework with at least about 10 u... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5740637 | Cremation niche A cremation niche for holding the cremated remains of a deceased living being. The cremation niche includes a precast concrete block preferably having a size and consistency of a conventional cast building block. A cavity within the concrete block with ac... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5526616 | Burial vault A burial vault (1) designed to hold a standard casket (10), having a dome-like cover unit (2) and a generally rectangular base unit (3), each unit being of the same size so as to mate together around the edges (19,20) at a joint section. The cover unit ha... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5511345 | Unitary molded plastic structural member, lid form and lawn crypt constructed from same A lawn crypt is fabricated from molded unitary plastic structural members. The structural members are attached to one another so as to inhibit lateral movement therebetween by pins inserted through interengaging protuberances extending outward from the si... | 04/30/1996 |
| 4942702 | Pre-fabricated panel for building, particularly for burial vaults This panel is outstanding in that each panel is made up of a plate (1) of insulating material inserted during moulding between two layers of cement (2) and (3) of different density and thickness, the transversal faces of the end of each panel being fitted... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4021979 | Aligning bracket for underground sectional precast concrete structures and method of assembly An alignment bracket used in combination with an extendible pole having a hooked end provides lateral and rotational alignment for the interengagement of precast concrete sections of underground concrete structures during their construction, eliminating t... | 05/10/1977 |