Patents by Inventor Brian K. Groemminger

Brian K. Groemminger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7340810
    Abstract: An ornamental corner piece for attachment to a casket includes a back plate which is adapted to mount to the corner of a casket. An attachment clip is operatively mounted within an elongated groove in the back plate. The clip member has at least one keyhole groove comprising an opening and a slot. An ornamental corner insert with at least one attachment member selectively slidingly engages the keyhole groove in the attachment clip such that the ornamental corner insert may be selectively mounted to or removed from the back plate. The attachment clip includes an indexing member. When the attachment clip is installed, the indexing member extends into a throughhole in the elongated groove in the back plate. The indexing member properly orients the attachment clip in the elongated groove. Other embodiments of the invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Troy D. Acton, Brian K. Groemminger, Timothy Edward Hixson, James Tucker
  • Patent number: 7210204
    Abstract: A casket ornament display plaque and associated methods for memorializing a deceased individual. The casket ornament display plaque comprises a decorative board, a casket ornament attached to the board, and indicia attached to the board identifying a deceased to be memorialized. The casket ornament is one having been removed from a casket in which the deceased was displayed. The indicia may be a nameplate bearing the name of the deceased, a photograph of the deceased, or both. A method for memorializing a deceased comprises displaying a casket containing the deceased therein, the casket having at least one selectively removable ornament, removing the ornament from the casket, affixing the ornament to a display plaque and presenting the display plaque and ornament to survivors of the deceased so that the deceased can be remembered by displaying the plaque and ornament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Groemminger, Christopher M. Wessel
  • Publication number: 20050268441
    Abstract: An ornamental corner piece for attachment to a casket includes a back plate which is adapted to mount to the corner of a casket. An attachment clip is operatively mounted within an elongated groove in the back plate. The clip member has at least one keyhole groove comprising an opening and a slot. An ornamental corner insert with at least one attachment member selectively slidingly engages the keyhole groove in the attachment clip such that the ornamental corner insert may be selectively mounted to or removed from the back plate. The attachment clip includes an indexing member. When the attachment clip is installed, the indexing member extends into a throughhole in the elongated groove in the back plate. The indexing member properly orients the attachment clip in the elongated groove. Other embodiments of the invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Troy D. Acton, Brian K. Groemminger, Timothy Edward Hixson, James Tucker
  • Patent number: 6928706
    Abstract: An ornamental corner piece for attachment to a casket includes a back plate which is adapted to mount to the corner of a casket. An attachment clip is operatively mounted within an elongated groove in the back plate. The clip member has at least one keyhole groove comprising an opening and a slot. An ornamental corner insert with at least one attachment member selectively slidingly engages the keyhole groove in the attachment clip such that the ornamental corner insert may be selectively mounted to or removed from the back plate. The attachment clip includes an indexing member. When the attachment clip is installed, the indexing member extends into a throughhole in the elongated groove in the back plate. The indexing member properly orients the attachment clip in the elongated groove. Other embodiments of the invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Troy D. Acton, Brian K. Groemminger, Timothy Edward Hixson, James Tucker
  • Patent number: 6883212
    Abstract: A casket ornament display plaque and associated methods for memorializing a deceased individual. The casket ornament display plaque comprises a decorative board, a casket ornament attached to the board, and indicia attached to the board identifying a deceased to be memorialized. The casket ornament is one having been removed from a casket in which the deceased was displayed. The indicia may be a nameplate bearing the name of the deceased, a photograph of the deceased, or both. A method for memorializing a deceased comprises displaying a casket containing the deceased therein, the casket having at least one selectively removable ornament, removing the ornament from the casket, affixing the ornament to a display plaque and presenting the display plaque and ornament to survivors of the deceased so that the deceased can be remembered by displaying the plaque and ornament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Groemminger, Christopher M. Wessel
  • Patent number: 6715190
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Groemminger, Walter A. Hullemeyer, Charles F. Winburn
  • Publication number: 20030192156
    Abstract: A casket ornament display plaque and associated methods for memorializing a deceased individual. The casket ornament display plaque comprises a decorative board, a casket ornament attached to the board, and indicia attached to the board identifying a deceased to be memorialized. The casket ornament is one having been removed from a casket in which the deceased was displayed. The indicia may be a nameplate bearing the name of the deceased, a photograph of the deceased, or both. A method for memorializing a deceased comprises displaying a casket containing the deceased therein, the casket having at least one selectively removable ornament, removing the ornament from the casket, affixing the ornament to a display plaque and presenting the display plaque and ornament to survivors of the deceased so that the deceased can be remembered by displaying the plaque and ornament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Applicant: Batesville Services, Inc. of One Batesville Boulevard
    Inventors: Brian K. Groemminger, Christopher M. Wessel
  • Publication number: 20030192155
    Abstract: An ornamental corner piece for attachment to a casket includes a back plate which is adapted to mount to the corner of a casket. An attachment clip is operatively mounted within an elongated groove in the back plate. The clip member has at least one keyhole groove comprising an opening and a slot. An ornamental corner insert with at least one attachment member selectively slidingly engages the keyhole groove in the attachment clip such that the ornamental corner insert may be selectively mounted to or removed from the back plate. The attachment clip includes an indexing member. When the attachment clip is installed, the indexing member extends into a throughhole in the elongated groove in the back plate. The indexing member properly orients the attachment clip in the elongated groove. Other embodiments of the invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Applicant: Batesville Services, Inc. of One Batesville Boulevard
    Inventors: Troy D. Acton, Brian K. Groemminger, Timothy Edward Hixson, James Tucker
  • Patent number: 6591466
    Abstract: An ornamental corner piece for attachment to a casket includes a back plate which is adapted to mount to the corner of a casket. An attachment clip is operatively mounted within an elongated groove in the back plate. The clip member has at least one keyhole groove comprising an opening and a slot. An ornamental corner insert with at least one attachment member selectively slidingly engages the keyhole groove in the attachment clip such that the ornamental corner insert may be selectively mounted to or removed from the back plate. The attachment clip includes an indexing member. When the attachment clip is installed, the indexing member extends into a throughhole in the elongated groove in the back plate. The indexing member properly orients the attachment clip in the elongated groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Troy D. Acton, Brian K. Groemminger
  • Patent number: 6557222
    Abstract: A casket ornament display plaque and associated methods for memorializing a deceased individual. The casket ornament display plaque comprises a decorative board, a casket ornament attached to the board, and indicia attached to the board identifying a deceased to be memorialized. The casket ornament is one having been removed from a casket in which the deceased was displayed. The indicia may be a nameplate bearing the name of the deceased, a photograph of the deceased, or both. A method for memorializing a deceased comprises displaying a casket containing the deceased therein, the casket having at least one selectively removable ornament, removing the ornament from the casket, affixing the ornament to a display plaque and presenting the display plaque and ornament to survivors of the deceased so that the deceased can be remembered by displaying the plaque and ornament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Groemminger, Christopher M. Wessel
  • Publication number: 20030066174
    Abstract: A casket ornament display plaque and associated methods for memorializing a deceased individual. The casket ornament display plaque comprises a decorative board, a casket ornament attached to the board, and indicia attached to the board identifying a deceased to be memorialized. The casket ornament is one having been removed from a casket in which the deceased was displayed. The indicia may be a nameplate bearing the name of the deceased, a photograph of the deceased, or both. A method for memorializing a deceased comprises displaying a casket containing the deceased therein, the casket having at least one selectively removable ornament, removing the ornament from the casket, affixing the ornament to a display plaque and presenting the display plaque and ornament to survivors of the deceased so that the deceased can be remembered by displaying the plaque and ornament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Brian K. Groemminger, Christopher M. Wessel
  • Patent number: 6446315
    Abstract: In an effort at increasing the quality and styling of the casket interior, and in particular the casket cap dish assembly, and in an effort to increase the quality of the memorialization aspect of the casket and memorial service, the present assembly was devised which comprises, in one aspect, a dish assembly for installation into an underside of a casket cap, the assembly comprising a foam dish including an opening therethrough, and a cap panel installed in the opening in the foam dish. In a second aspect, the dish assembly comprises a dish including an opening therethrough and a cap panel removably installed in the opening in the dish, the cap panel being personalized to the deceased and being removable from the dish by a loved one of the deceased subsequent to a memorial service for the deceased and retained by the loved one as a memorial to the deceased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Agee, Rosalie J. Calhoun, Richard A. Colangelo, Donna F. Gould, Brian K. Groemminger, Bryan M. Hankel, Donald R. Maier, Donald D. Maple, William F. Neth, Ilija Rojdev, Scott A. Schultz
  • Publication number: 20020112329
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventors: Brian K. Groemminger, Walter A. Hullemeyer, Charles F. Winburn
  • Publication number: 20010027591
    Abstract: In an effort at increasing the quality and styling of the casket interior, and in particular the casket cap dish assembly, and in an effort to increase the quality of the memorialization aspect of the casket and memorial service, the present invention was devised which comprises, in one aspect, a dish assembly for installation into an underside of a casket cap, the assembly comprising a foam dish including an opening therethrough, and a cap panel installed in the opening in the foam dish. In a second aspect, the dish assembly comprises a dish including an opening therethrough and a cap panel removably installed in the opening in the dish, the cap panel being personalized to the deceased and being removable from the dish by a loved one of the deceased subsequent to a memorial service for the deceased and retained by the loved one as a memorial to the deceased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Applicant: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Agee, Rosalie J. Calhoun, Richard A. Colangelo, Donna F. Gould, Brian K. Groemminger, Bryan M. Hankel, Donald R. Maier, Donald D. Maple, William F. Neth, Ilija Rojdev, Scott A. Schultz
  • Patent number: 6237202
    Abstract: In an effort at increasing the quality and styling of the casket interior, and in particular the casket cap dish assembly, and in an effort to increase the quality of the memorialization aspect of the casket and memorial service, the present invention was devised which comprises, in one aspect, a dish assembly for installation into an underside of a casket cap, the assembly comprising a foam dish including an opening therethrough, and a cap panel installed in the opening in the foam dish. In a second aspect, the dish assembly comprises a dish including an opening therethrough and a cap panel removably installed in the opening in the dish, the cap panel being personalized to the deceased and being removable from the dish by a loved one of the deceased subsequent to a memorial service for the deceased and retained by the loved one as a memorial to the deceased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Batesville Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Agee, Rosalie J. Calhoun, Richard A. Colangelo, Donna S. Gould, Brian K. Groemminger, Bryan M. Hankel, Donald R. Maier, Donald D. Maple, William F. Neth, Llija Rojdev, Scott A. Schultz