Batesville Services, Inc.

Batesville Casket Company

Charles F Winburn

William F Neth

John P Biondo

Donald R Maier

Dennis C Laphan

Troy D Acton

Wilbur A Schebler

Walter A Hullemeyer

Roger L Reuss

Richard A Colangelo

Garry W Vosahlik

Brian K Groemminger

William K Craft

Anthony S Casablanca

Rosalie J Calhoun

Eugene A Ritter

Juanita Baker

Dale E Oliver

Troy Acton

Wilfred Scheele

Gary M McBreen

Gregory T Keferl

Lola J Fisher

Wallace P Blankenship

A casket is provided with an integral memorabilia compartment for the placement, display and storage therein of personal effects and mementos of memorialization of the deceased. In one form the casket comprises a shell, a cap pivoted to the shell, and an openable and closable memorabilia compartment forming a part of the cap. In another form the casket comprises a shell, a cap pivoted to the shell, and an openable and closable memorabilia compartment forming a part of the shell. In both forms the memorabilia compartment is so positioned and configured as to provide convenient access to mourners paying respects to the deceased for placing personal effects and mementos therein and to provide display of the personal effects and mementos placed therein for viewing by the mourners.

Casket having memorabilia compartment

A sealable casket having a memorabilia compartment comprises a shell and at least one cap pivoted to the shell. The shell and cap have respective confronting flanges. A gasket is disposed between the flanges of the shell and the cap forming a seal therebetween. A memorabilia compartment is formed within the cap and includes an access opening and an interior. A removable cover is positioned over the access opening, and a gasket is disposed between the cover and the cap forming a seal therebetween.

Sealable casket having memorabilia compartment

A cap panel insert which is usable in dish assemblies of both cut top and full top caskets. A dish assembly adapted to be positioned in a lid of a full top casket comprises a cap panel sized and configured to fit within the full top casket lid and puffing members attached to the panel around its periphery, a first cap panel insert overlying the cap panel, and second and third cap panel inserts positioned at opposite longitudinal ends of the first cap panel insert and overlying the cap panel. The first cap panel insert is sized and configured to fit within a dish assembly of a cut top casket.

Cap panel insert usable in dish assemblies of both cut top and full top caskets

A memorialization casket of the type which allows it to be personalized to the deceased comprises a shell, a lid closable upon the shell and an alcove structure mounted to an under side of the lid, the alcove structure including a recessed area adapted to receive an ornament for display. The casket lid may include a dish mounted to the under side of the casket lid, with the alcove structure being mounted to the dish. The dish may have a panel which may include an opening therethrough, with the alcove structure mounted in the opening of the dish panel. An alcove structure mounting adaptor may be mounted in the dish panel opening, with the alcove structure being mounted to the adaptor. The mounting adaptor may include a fastener fastening the alcove structure to the mounting adaptor. The alcove structure may include a fastener adapted to removably retain the ornament in the alcove structure.

Memorialization casket

A lid for a casket includes a cover including longitudinally spaced-apart first and second end edges, transversely spaced-apart first and second side edges, and a dome extending between the first and second side edges and between the first and second end edges, and an end cap including an end panel and a rim appended to the end panel. The end cap is coupled to the cover adjacent to the first end edge. The rim extends from the end panel to cover a portion of the cover adjacent to the first end edge.

Lightweight burial casket

An apparatus used during construction of a casket shell from casket shell elements, the apparatus comprising: a surface, a frame support for movement relative to the surface between a first position adjacent the surface and a second position away from the surface, a flexible membrane coupled to the frame and formed to include at least one aperture, a pump unit coupled to the at least one aperture and operable to evacuate air from between the membrane and the surface when the frame is in the first position, and a template supported by the surface and positioned to lie between the surface and the membrane, the template adapted to establish a proper position of the casket shell elements on the surface.

Casket lid end cap

A pillow for a burial casket. The pillow is formed of a trapezoidal cross section, head block, four trapezoidal shoulder blocks that are detachable from the head block and a covering pad having a concave undersurface into which the head and shoulder blocks nest. A fabric pillow case has a transverse zipper at its upper end which is normally covered by a fabric. The zipper provides access into the interior of the pillow so as to remove and/or adjust the several blocks in order to present the deceased as attractively as possible.

Pillow for a burial casket

A decorative lining for a casket lid comprises a panel bordered along at least two edges by framing, and a fastening arrangement for securing the panel to the lid. The fastening arrangement includes a first tab secured to the panel and projecting beyond one edge thereof. The first tab is insertable behind a first portion of the framing located adjacent such one edge. A second tab is secured to the panel by a first attaching device and projects beyond an opposite edge of the panel. The second tab is insertable behind a second portion of the framing located adjacent such opposite edge. A second attaching device is disposed intermediate the first attaching device and such opposite edge for securing the panel to the second tab in response to inward pressing of the panel towards the second tab.

Removable panel for a casket lid

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Batesville, IN, United States of America

Charles F Winburn