CINERARY URN CABINET WITH FULL VIEW PICTURE
A cinerary urn cabinet is provided, which displays a complete view of a picture to provide an additional function of serving as a museum of fine art to a cinerarium and thus eliminate the poor impression of being dull and gloomy and hindering a visitor from willingly entering a traditional cinerarium. The cinerary urn cabinet includes a plurality of urn storage cells arranged in both horizontal rows and vertical columns to form a continuous wall. Each cell has a front panel on which a portion of a complete view of a picture is formed, so that the front panels of the cells collectively form a wall surface of the cabinet that shows the complete view of the picture, making visitors feel as if they were staying in a museum of fine art and enjoying the master pieces of artists.
The present invention generally relates to a cinerary urn cabinet that shows a complete view of a picture, and more particularly to a cinerary urn cabinet composed of urn storage cells having front panels on each of which a portion of a picture is formed so that all the front panels, when viewed together, form a complete view of the picture to provide an additional function of serving as a museum of fine art to a cinerarium.
(b) DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ARTBirth and death are some of the events that each individual must go through. In ancient times, when a person died, his or her children and grandchildren must find a good place for burying the deceased. However, with the progress of human society, the high development of available land in the modern society and the government's policy often results in gradual reduction of the available area of graveyards for burying the dead and the limited area of graveyard is getting of high expense, which is often not affordable by the common people. An alternative way of handling the body of a deceased family member is to incineration and the bone ash is stored in a urn that is deposited in a cinerarium for the peace of the deceased family member and for the memory of the deceased person by the family members and friends.
On the other hand, some of the sight-seeing spots of the world culture heritages are actually the graveyards of some ancient emperors and empresses, such as pyramids of Egypt, which are the graves of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, and terracotta warriors constitute a part of the graveyard of Qin Shi Huang. These graves of the ancient emperors and empresses are now a popular tour spots. This is simply because they are very old and magnificent constructions that have historical value and are mysterious and fascinating to general people.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONSome of the graveyards in Taiwan are constructed in such a manner that makes the visitors feel artistic, magnificent, and brilliant and some even own fantastic views of mountains and oceans, looking like a fairy land, and some owners of the graveyard collect art works that are so matching the excellent natural views surrounding the graveyards, making the graveyards terrific sight-seeing spots. Such an idea of converting a graveyard into a sight-seeing spot is believed to be expandable to the interior arrangement of a cinerarium to create a new appearance for a cinerarium that is traditionally considered dull and gloomy, so that even a cinerarium can be a great tour spot.
Thus, an object of the present invention is to change the traditional impression of a cinerarium that is dull and gloomy and thus psychologically hinders a visitor from entering the cinerarium by forming a full view picture on the front panels of a number of urn storage cells that are arranged in both horizontal and vertical direction to form an urn cabinet whereby when the front panels are all closed, the picture can be completely observed on the front surface of the cabinet. A visitor that enters the cinerarium in which the cabinet is set up may feel the same way as if he were in a museum of fine art. In this way, the cinerarium also plays a role of a fine art museum and connection between a cinerarium and tourism is established.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a cinerary urn cabinet that is composed of a number of urn storage cells arranged in horizontal rows and vertical columns and each storage cell has a front panel on which a particular portion of a picture is formed, whereby when all the panels are closed, a complete picture composed of those portions respectively formed on the front panels is displayed. Further, each storage cell comprises an inner panel that is mounted at an inner position inside the storage cell and the front panel with the portion of the picture is located outside the inner panel.
The foregoing objectives and summary provide only a brief introduction to the present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects of the present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which will become apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detailed description of the invention and the claims should be read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specification and drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similar parts.
Many other advantages and features of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which a preferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of the present invention is shown by way of illustrative example.
The following descriptions are exemplary embodiments only, and are not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention in any way. Rather, the following description provides a convenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of the invention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made in the function and arrangement of the elements described without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
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To summarize, the present invention provide a cinerary urn cabinet that is composed of a number of urn storage cells arranged in horizontal rows and vertical columns and comprising front panels on which portions of a picture are elaborately arranged, whereby when the front panels are closed, a complete view of the picture is shown. This provides an additional function to a cinerarium to serve also as a museum of fine art, so that the cinerarium may become a sight-seeing spot for tourism.
While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and described and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intended to be limited to the details above, since it will be understood that various omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the forms and details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the spirit of the present invention.
Claims
1. A cinerary urn cabinet comprising a plurality of urn storage cells arranged in horizontal rows and vertical lines to form a continuous wall, each urn storage cell comprising a front panel on which a portion of a picture is formed such that the picture portions formed on the front panels form a complete view of the picture.
2. The cinerary urn cabinet according to claim 1, wherein each of the urn storage cells comprises an inner panel that is set at an internal location inside the urn storage cell and wherein the front panel on which the picture portion is formed is located outside the inner panel.
3. The cinerary urn cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the picture portion formed on each of the front panels of the urn storage cells comprises a three-dimensional configuration.
4. The cinerary urn cabinet according to claim 2, wherein the picture portion formed on each of the outside front panels of the urn storage cells comprises a three-dimensional configuration.
5. The cinerary urn cabinet according to claim 1 further comprising a light projection device that is controlled by a control panel whereby the light projection device projects a light beam to the front panel of one of the urn storage cells according to an instruction received from the control panel.
6. The cinerary urn cabinet according to claim 3 further comprising a light projection device that is controlled by a control panel whereby the light projection device projects a light beam to the front panel of one of the urn storage cells according to an instruction received from the control panel.
7. The cinerary urn cabinet according to claim 2 further comprising a light projection device that is controlled by a control panel whereby the light projection device projects a light beam to the outside front panel of one of the urn storage cells according to an instruction received from the control panel.
8. The cinerary urn cabinet according to claim 4 further comprising a light projection device that is controlled by a control panel whereby the light projection device projects a light beam to the outside front panel of one of the urn storage cells according to an instruction received from the control panel.
Type: Application
Filed: Nov 30, 2009
Publication Date: Jun 2, 2011
Inventor: GUANG-TSANN TSAO (Taipei)
Application Number: 12/628,134
International Classification: E04H 13/00 (20060101);