Cap brace for hardwood caskets

• US 4,925,223 A
• Filed: 04/13/1989
• Issued: 05/15/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Batesville Casket Company Incorporated (Hillenbrand Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Batesville Casket Company Incorporated (Hillenbrand Incorporated)
• Inventors: Craft, William K.
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, RICHARD
• Application Number:
  US07/339,207
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 292/338, 292/339, 292/262, 292/265, 292/266, 292/267, 217/60 C, 27/18
• US Class Current: 292/339
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 17/28 with braking, clamping or securing means at the connection to the guide member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/285 Notched bar
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 292/67 Portable

Abstract

A brace for wooden casket cap. A channel slot is routed in the top edge of the body of the casket. A plastic channel is inserted in the slot. The channel is secured in the slot by transverse fore and aft nails. A brace is pivoted to the cap and slidable in the channel. A hook on the end of the brace is captured by the aft nail to hold the brace and cap in the open position.

Claims

1. In a wood casket body having a top edge and a cap pivoted to a casket body and adapted to close upon said top edge, a brace between casket body and cap to hold said cap open, said brace comprising:

an elongated channel slot in the top edge of said casket body;

an elongated channel inserted in said slot,

a keeper projecting through said channel adjacent said lid,

an elongated one-piece rigid brace pivotally mounted at one end to said lid, said brace having a body end,

the body end of said brace being slidable in said channel and having a notch engageable with said keeper to hold said body end at said keeper and thus to hold said lid in a raised attitude.

2. In a wood casket body having a top edge and a cap pivoted to a casket body and adapted to close upon said top edge, a brace between casket body and cap to hold said cap open, said brace comprising:

a channel slot in the top edge of said casket body,

a channel inserted in said slot,

a keeper projecting through said channel adjacent said lid,

an elongated brace pivotally mounted at one end to said lid, said brace having a body end,

the body end of said brace being slidable in said channel and having a notch engageable with said keeper to hold said body end at said keeper and thus to hold said lid in a raised attitude,

at least one longitudinal flange in said channel dividing said channel into inner and outer sections,

said body end of said brace having a laterally-projecting follower which is captured under said flange to hold the body end of said brace in said channel.

3. A brace as in claim 2,

said follower being a disk having a central pin,

said body end of said brace having a hole that receives said pin,

said channel having a width that confines said follower to said body end of said brace when the casket end of said brace is inserted in said channel.

4. In a wood casket body having a top edge and a cap pivoted to a casket body and adapted to close upon said top edge, a brace between casket body and cap to hold said cap open, said brace comprising:

a channel slot in the top edge of said casket body,

a channel inserted in said slot,

a keeper projecting through said channel adjacent said lid,

an elongated brace pivotally mounted at one end to said lid, said brace having a body end,

the body end of said brace being slidable in said channel and having a notch engageable with said keeper to hold said body end at said keeper and thus to hold said lid in a raised attitude,

a bracket mounted on said cap,

said one end of said brace being pivoted to said bracket,

said channel having a cavity adapted to receive said bracket when said cap is closed upon said casket.