Vertically Oriented (e.g., Tower, Etc.) Patents (Class 52/651.01)
  • Patent number: 6250025
    Abstract: An assembleable repository tower for holding individual quantities of burial remains including a platform base and a first plurality of four upwardly extending and elongate members. Each of the first members further includes a webbed configuration defining an axially extending and substantially hollowed interior. A second plurality of elongate members are second to selected faces of first and second of the first plurality of members. Each of the second members are assembled with the first members so that the tower is of a specified height and establishes four upwardly extending sides. A plurality of niche members are engageable with each of the upwardly extending sides, each of the niche members including a plurality of receptacle portions recessed inwardly from the associated side and which are suitable for holding a quantity of burial remains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Greenwood, Inc.
    Inventor: James W. Darby
  • Patent number: 6237297
    Abstract: A structural member of this class basically consists of two spaced shell panels and an intermediate core. The shell panels may be made of metal or concrete or combinations thereof, or of other rigid materials having the required physical properties. The core is a triangulated wire frame composed of a plurality of zig-zag shaped wire trusses having their sets of top and bottom apexes anchored to associated sets of longitudinal and transverse chords and the respective proximate inside faces of the shell panels. The arrangement of the wire trusses is such that, in each group of three adjacent wire trusses, the middle one has its bottom apexes also connected to the bottom apexes of the wire truss located on one side of the middle wire truss and has its top apexes also connected to the top apexes of the wire truss located on the other side of the middle wire truss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: IBI, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Paroly