Patents Assigned to National Car Rental System, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4139918
    Abstract: A lightweight, disposable transportation casket, including a shell section with a cover releasably attached thereto by securing straps. Mattress sections are supported inside the shell on a liner and the remains rest on the mattress sections. The sides of the container cover form a skirt and flare outwardly to form a handgrip by which the casket can be lifted. The remains are wrapped in a cover and rest on the mattress sections, and are held in place by straps. A headrest maintains the head in the desired position, and indicia on the cover identifies the head end of the casket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Assignee: National Car Rental System, Inc.
    Inventor: William P. Covington
  • Patent number: 4135279
    Abstract: A lightweight, disposable transportation casket, including a shell section with a cover releasably attached thereto by securing straps. Mattress sections are supported inside the shell on a liner and the remains rest on the mattress sections. The sides of the container cover form a skirt and flare outwardly to form a handgrip by which the casket can be lifted. The remains are wrapped in a cover and rest on the mattress sections, and are held in place by straps. A headrest maintains the head in the desired position, and indicia on the cover identifies the head end of the casket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: National Car Rental System, Inc.
    Inventor: William P. Covington
  • Patent number: 4123831
    Abstract: A lightweight, disposable transportation casket, including a shell section with a cover releasably attached thereto by securing straps. Mattress sections are supported inside the shell on a liner and the remains rest on the mattress sections. The sides of the container cover form a skirt and flare outwardly to form a handgrip by which the casket can be lifted. The remains are wrapped in a cover and rest on the mattress sections, and are held in place by straps. A headrest maintains the head in the desired position, and indicia on the cover identifies the head end of the casket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1978
    Assignee: National Car Rental System, Inc.
    Inventor: William P. Covington
  • Patent number: 3962803
    Abstract: A dredging apparatus having an improved dredging head in which the suction pump and drive motors for the same are mounted adjacent the clean-out and cutting augers for increased pumping efficiency. The augers include a cooperating plurality of cutting teeth mounted peripherally on the flighting of the auger and extending spirally along the same to provide for a continual shearing cutting surface in a line parallel to the rotational shaft of the augers for more efficient cutting of the fibrous materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1976
    Assignee: National Car Rental System, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles F. O'Brien