Abstract: The invention generally relates to the merchandising of death care products and death care related products, such as caskets, coffins, vaults, bronzes and other metallic adornments, personalized exteriors and interiors of caskets and coffins, urns, keepsakes and various printed materials, including, but not limited to, cards, such as sympathy cards, stationery, and other printed literature, including pamphlets, books, whether recorded on paper or in other formats, e.g., videotape or film, CD, DVD or other electronic media, etc. The invention also provides a method, apparatus and display fixtures to inform and educate patrons who are making arrangements in advance of actual need, as well as families and relatives of those who may be making arrangements for a recently deceased family member.

Abstract: The invention is directed towards installation free death care merchandise display units. The display unit comprises a main display made of a plurality of side wing wall panels movably connected to a wall panel. Thus, the side wing wall panels and the back wall panel maintain each other in an upright position when the display unit is in a set up, displaying state.

Abstract: The present invention includes a method for fabricating, and installing, a death care merchandising system and a method for displaying death care merchandise and a death care merchandising display system having low cost of fabrication in addition to ease of installation at the site of use. The death care merchandising system includes a slat wall, attached to a structural wall and vertically aligned or plumbed. From the slat wall, all further components may be hung. A provision of dividers can be used to delineate merchandise or categories of merchandise displayed within such merchandise display system and accessories, such as cornices, lighting, placards, shelving, retractable and extensible drawers, doors, and other sub units, such as cabinets, may be used in conjunction with the invention.

Abstract: The invention is directed towards installation free death care merchandise display units. The display unit comprises a main display made of a plurality of side wing wall panels movably connected to a wall panel. Thus, the side wing wall panels and the back wall panel maintain each other in an upright position when the display unit is in a set up, displaying state.

Abstract: A death care merchandise display unit comprises two vertical, parallel, spaced wing wall panels, a vertical back wall means having lateral edges secured to the rear edges of the wing wall panels and optionally at least one decedent confinement chamber positioned between the two vertical spaced wing wall panels with a drawer slide means for rolling the chamber outward or a cornice display structure projecting from the vertical back wall of the merchandise display area or securement means for affixing death care merchandise selected from coffins, caskets, vaults, urns, sectionals or miniatures thereof and materials for decorating the same onto the merchandise display area. The securement means may consist of drawers adjacent to the decedent confinement chamber for exhibiting casket adornment materials.

Abstract: A method for fabricating, and installing, a death care merchandising system and a method and death care merchandising display system are disclosed which are lower in cost to fabricate and to install at the site of use. The death care merchandising system comprises a slat wall, which is attached to a structural wall and vertically aligned or plumbed. From the slat wall, all further components may be hung. A provision of dividers can be used to delineate merchandise or categories of merchandise displayed within such merchandise display system and accessories, such as cornices, lighting, placards, shelving, retractable and extensible drawers, doors, and other subunits, such as cabinets, may be used in conjunction with the invention.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display system for caskets, both for display prior to casket selection, e.g., in a showroom prior to purchase, and for display in actual use, e.g., in a viewing room and/or during a funeral or memorial service. The casket display system is easy to assemble in a short period of time, is lightweight enough for a single human to be able to lift and move any of its component parts, yet is strong and sturdy, giving the appearance of stability and mass, and is easily transportable. The casket display system of the present invention comprises a back wall panel, a bier formed by a plurality of casket-supporting cylinders, and at least one supporting member, wherein each supporting member is supported by at least one of the cylinders and provides support for the back wall panel. The back wall is completely supported by the supporting members, requiring no additional means of support. Each supporting means is attached to one or more of the cylinders.

Abstract: A death care merchandise display unit comprises two vertical, parallel, spaced wing wall panels, a vertical back wall means having lateral edges secured to the rear edges of the wing wall panels and optionally at least one decedent confinement chamber positioned between the two vertical spaced wing wall panels with a drawer slide means for rolling the chamber outward or a cornice display structure projecting from the vertical back wall of the merchandise display area or securement means for affixing death care merchandise selected from coffins, caskets, vaults, urns, sectionals or miniatures thereof and materials for decorating the same onto the merchandise display area. The securement means may consist of drawers adjacent to the decedent confinement chamber for exhibiting casket adornment materials.

Abstract: A death care merchandise display unit comprises two vertical, parallel, spaced wing wall panels, a vertical back wall means having lateral edges secured to the rear edges of the wing wall panels and optionally at least one decedent confinement chamber positioned between the two vertical spaced wing wall panels with a drawer slide means for rolling the chamber outward or a cornice display structure projecting from the vertical back wall of the merchandise display area or securement means for affixing death care merchandise selected from coffins, caskets, vaults, urns, sectionals or miniatures thereof and materials for decorating the same onto the merchandise display area. The securement means may consist of drawers adjacent to the decedent confinement chamber for exhibiting casket adornment materials.

Abstract: A death care merchandise display unit maximizes the display of miniature death care merchandise products. The display unit has two vertical, parallel, spaced wing wall panels and a vertical back wall having lateral edges secured to the rear edges of the wing wall panels. Fixtures for holding miniature replicas of various death care merchandise articles are adfixed to the wall panels and the vertical back walls. One or more display surfaces are preferably further contained within the display unit.

Abstract: A death care merchandise display unit comprises two vertical, parallel, spaced wing wall panels, a vertical back wall means having lateral edges secured to the rear edges of the wing wall panels and at least one sectional decedent confinement chamber positioned between the two vertical spaced wing wall panels with at least one fabric board and a drawer and/or optional placard for displaying photographs, illustrations, or information. In addition, the cornice display structure may contain an illumination means affixed onto its inner perimeter. The securement means may further comprise a means for vertically stacking at least one additional sectional decedent confinement chamber from a vertical wing wall panel or the back wall or securing another modular display beside the first horizontal display unit.

Abstract: A dual containment hydraulic system includes an inner hose for transmitting and containing pressurized fluids and an outer hose completely encasing the inner hose. The inner and outer hoses are capped and sealed together at each end and secured in place by a locking device, thereby creating a bladder between the outer surface of the inner hose and the inner surface of the outer hose, to contain any fluids leaking from the inner hose should a break occur. The locking device may be sandwiched between two floating bolts and the outermost set of floating bolts may be reverse threaded. The density of the wall of the outer hose and the volume of the bladder of the dual containment hydraulic system may be varied so as to (i) maintain equalized pressure of any contained fluid leaking from the inner hose after a break in the inner hose or (ii) allow for controlled reduction in both volume and pressure of the contained fluid.