Modular Interment Container with Stabilization and Drainage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing interment systems face issues such as collapsing side walls during excavation, water accumulation in graves, and difficulties in laying coffins without water, which can lead to improper burial conditions.
Innovation Solution
A container system comprising an interment container with upstanding walls and a base, featuring cooperating formations for stabilization and drainage, including elongate recesses for locating and stabilizing members, and a spacing arrangement to prevent damage and support coffins, along with an anchor system for securing headstones and other items.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional excavation methods are used to create graves, then burial capacity and flexibility are improved, but side walls collapse and water accumulates in the grave
Solution Approach 1:
The grave structure is divided into modular interment containers that can be stacked and arranged in various configurations. Each container is a self-contained unit with integrated locating and stabilizing members, allowing multiple containers to be assembled together to create larger burial structures without requiring continuous excavation of side walls.
Solution Approach 2:
Locating members and stabilizing members act as intermediary elements between the interment containers and the ground. These members transfer and distribute the structural loads, preventing direct contact between the container walls and unstable soil, thereby preventing wall collapse while maintaining burial capacity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional excavation methods are used to create graves, then burial capacity is improved, but water accumulates in the grave making it difficult to remove
Solution Approach 1:
The interment containers are designed with integrated drainage features and elevated positioning on locating members before interment. This preliminary arrangement prevents water accumulation by directing water away from the container base, eliminating the need for difficult water removal operations after burial.
3Device complexity
If coffins are placed directly in excavated graves, then burial process is simplified, but coffins may be damaged by water or unstable ground
Solution Approach 1:
The interment container serves as an intermediary structure between the coffin and the ground environment. It provides a protected chamber that isolates the coffin from harmful factors such as water accumulation and unstable soil, while still allowing for a relatively simple interment process where the container is placed in the grave and the coffin is positioned within it.
4Productivity
If multiple coffins are interred in the same grave, then land use efficiency is improved, but exhumation becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
Each coffin is placed in a separate modular interment container, allowing individual containers to be easily removed from multi-container graves. This segmentation enables efficient land use by allowing multiple containers to be stacked or arranged in the same grave space, while simplifying exhumation operations by allowing selective removal of individual containers without disturbing other coffins.
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AI summary
An interment system (110) comprises a container arrangement (109) configured to hold the posthumous remains of a plurality of individuals arranged one above the other. The container arrangement defines a posthumous remains receiving chamber (156) in which the remains of the plurality of individuals can be held. The container arrangement (109) may comprise an outer interment container (112) and an inner interment container (150) which can be received within the outer interment container. The inner interment container (150) defines the aforesaid chamber (156).