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The difference between a casket & a coffin?
- Coffin-is for a funeral service that is wedge shapped-8 sides in a anthropodial shapped like a man and is broader at the shoulder then the head or foot.
- Casket-for protection, practical utility & a suitable memory picture (rectangle shapped)
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The materials used in casket construction
- Wood
- Ferrous Metals
- Non-Ferrous
- Other Materials: Polymer & Fiberglass
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Examples of hardwoods and softwoods
- (Hardest) Walnut, Oak, Maple, Cherry, Mahogany, Poplar, Birch and Pecan Tree
- (Soft) Redwood, Cedar, Cypress, Fir, Spruce and Pine
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Wood
- thickness varies 3 1/4 to 7/18 in stock is used in construction.
- Solid Hardwood-any tuff heavy timber w/ a compact texture and any disiduous tree
- Softwood- any lack, easily cut wood combburing and not very resistant to decay
- Plywood: thin sheets of wood glued together so that their grains are at right angles to one another
- Wood by-Products:
- Corrugated fiberwood (cardboard)
- Composition board- (pressed board, particle board, fiberboard, hardboard) particles of wood bonded together with a waterproof glue; distinguished by the size of the particles of wood used. *mobile homes
- Laminates- made by uniting superimposed layers of different materials
- Wood veneers- created by gluing a thin layer of wood of superior value or excellent grain to an inferior wood
- Artifical laminates- man-made layers, usually plastics, resembling the appearance of wood
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What Ferrous metals are and how the thickness is expressed
- any metal formed from iron and more susuptable to rust.
- Thickness is expressed in U.S. standard gauges
- the higher the gauge the thiner the metal
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Steel
a metal alloy consisting mainly of iron and carbon; used in caskets; the carbon keeps it soft and malleable; commercial steel contains carbon in an amount up to 1.7%
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stainless steel
- a metal alloy containg, 8% nickle, 74% iron, 18% chromium noted for their resistance to rust.
- 400 series-used in automobile mufflers
- 300 series- used in caskets, it has 8% nickle
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iron
a heavy mallable ductile silver/white metalic element that readily oxidizes in moist air.
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Malleable
capable of being fashioned into being formed or shaped
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Ductile
capable of being hammered out in a thin manner
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What Non-Ferrous metals are and how the thickness is expressed
- any metal that does not contain iron
- most common is copper & bronze
- thickness is expressed in oz. in sq. foot. 32 oz. & 48 oz. the higher the # per sq. foot the thicker the metal
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Types of Non-Ferrous metals Copper & Bronze:
- Copper: mallable ductile metalic element having a redish brown color
- Wrought Copper- copper metal rolled into sheets
- Copper Deposit- a casket made from a core of copper metal to which copper ions are combined by the elctrolytic process.
- Bronze: a metal alloy contaning 90% copper w/ tin & sometimes zinc comprosing the other 10%
- Wrought Bronze- metal rolled into sheets
- Cast Bronze- molten bronze is poured into two molds and allowed to cool (sarcophagus)
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The Component part of the casket which includes the shell, the body and the hardware
- Shell:
- Cap or Lid
- (Rim or Ogee
- Crown
- Pie or Fishtail
- Header
- Rim flange (ogee flange)
- Gasket channel
- Header flange
- Body:
- Top body molding and body ledge
- Body panel
- Base molding
- Bottom
- Top body molding flange or body ledge flange
- Hardware:
- Full length swing bar
- Individual swing bar
- Full length staionary bar
- Individual stationary bar
- Bail handle (bail bar)
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The component parts of the handle
- Lug or Ear
- Arm or Bracket
- Bar
- Tip
- Corner or Excutcheon
- Production methods
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Lug or Ear
casket handle that is attached to the casket body handle (exceion) protective or ornate shield
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Arm or Bracket
(casket) that attaches the bar to the lug
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Bar
Part of casket handle that is attached to the arm or the lug
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Tip
the decorative or ornamental part of the casket that covers the end of the bar
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Corner or Escutcheon
its an optional part of hardware that is attached to all four corners of the body panels
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The interior of caskets-component parts
- Cap panel: focal part of interior which fills the inside of the crown sometimes its boarder by the roll, sometimes refered to as a panel
- a. Full Couch: one piece top, showes deceased from head to toe
- b. Half Couch: two piece top, use to be reg. half couch
- head panel and foot panel
- Inner panels: functional or ornamental covering usually covers (used in military)
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Inner panels and parts
- a. Roll (cove, puffing)
- b. Gimp (fold)
- c. Thow (overlay, overthrow)
- d. Apron or skirt
- e. Extendover (valance)
- f. Bed
- g. Mattress cover
- h. body lining
- i. hinge cover (hinge skirt)
- j. pillow
- k. Blanket
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