ES1066422U - Modular burial system - Google Patents

Abstract

Cemetery with modular burial that is characterized by using large concrete blocks or other resistant materials (Figures 1 and 2), which have cavities (1) where the remains of the deceased are kept together with the data, documents and desired objects, counting on the closing covers (2) with the identification data of each niche. The blocks are joined together by tongue and groove protrusions (4) and slits (3) that they have on their faces and with the addition of a small amount of leveling and filling mortar, forming cyclopean walls (figure 3) with accessible faces and with those who build large funerary monuments of enormous capacity that constitute themselves a cemetery, for example a pyramid (figure 4), which due to their grandeur, little space required and a large amount of stored data can be expected to last in the time of indefinitely. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Cemetery with modular burial.

The present invention proposes a cemetery with one or more large pantheons in which They perform all burials. The construction of the pantheons it will be cyclopean type by means of large stackable concrete blocks that have inside cavities that are used as niches The pantheons thus made will have a minimum cost per grave and will have sufficient dimensions to contain hundreds of thousands or millions of niches, so that they will last over time by its grandeur

Background of the invention

There are two fundamental aspects that condition the models of current cemeteries: The costs, both of soil as of construction and conservation, and permanence over time.

To reduce as much as possible the costs have been devised several modular systems, such as those corresponding to The following patents:

30423/92 Burial System (Australia)

3878656 Modular mausoleum crypt system (United States)

5381591 Multi-tier burial system (United States)

2225993 Caveau funéraire (France)

The permanence over time is not left resolved by any of them and continuing in the cemeteries current model of niches for rent, after a few decades the graves are evicted and the remains are finished in an ossuary or grave common.

Description of the invention

The cemetery with modular burial that is proposed in the present invention comes to solve the two issues simultaneously:

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Cost minimum construction and maintenance of niches

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Construction permanence in the time, for its grandeur and information that in it can be to stock.

The proposal represents a total innovation compared to existing cemetery models, since:

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Be change the individual or family tomb for pantheons with infinity of niches

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The possibility of stacking blocks in height allows to pass the horizontal burials to a vertical one with high density of niches per m2 of land.

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He cemetery is one or more funerary monuments with capacity for millions of niches that last over time for their grandiosity.

This modular cemetery is characterized by:

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Use large sturdy blocks that They are stackable at high altitude, which have inside the niches in which the remains of the deceased are deposited together with other objects or information as desired.

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Formation of cyclopean walls with sayings blocks, which are part of the construction of monuments Funeral homes of large dimensions.

The initially planned blocks are of lightly reinforced concrete, approximate dimensions of one meter of wide by one meter high and two meters long, with two niches inside to house the remains of the deceased. With these blocks are made walls that preferably have their two accessible faces.

Initially only blocks are planned for contain ashes, skeletal remains or mummified bodies, along with personal items such as newspapers, videos, photos, and in general any information (in analog or digital system) that is want to give to the "future".

The blocks have a system of recesses in their upper face and projections in the lower one, so that they fit between them when they overlap to form the walls. The union between blocks is carried out by means of a small amount of mortar for leveling and filling of gaps, so that the joints are sealed to transmit vertical forces well and the filled gaps prevent horizontal slips in case of movements
seismic

The funerary monuments to be made have as basic objective its permanence over time. To do this it is it is necessary that the conservation costs are minimal and that arouse some kind of social interest so that they are not abandoned, forgotten and finally destroyed.

Some monuments that would fulfill this objective They are:

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Multi-level maze Built with the proposed wall system. The design must be such that it allows its growth over time and that is a challenge leave it without using the evacuation routes you should have to be used by those who leave or those who are going to visit a specific niche.

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Network of walls and corridors at different levels, in the form of catacombs, which are they would later cover with lands to create gardens or a small forest

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Pyramid with hallway system that It allows the visit of all niches.

The advantages of a cemetery with this type of constructions are:

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Cost minimum of burials, which makes it accessible to the great most.

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Great concentration of niches in small spaces.

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Permanence over time undefined, covering the need for respect and not destruction of their remains that people generally have

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Source of data for the future, keeping a file with the data of all the elements deposited in the niches, which in case Necessary could be opened.

Brief description of the drawings

Figure 1 is a section 1/4 of one of the type blocks, showing the cavity (1) intended to contain the remains of the deceased, the closing covers (2) with the data of identification of each niche, and the slits (3) for the coupling between blocks.

Figure 2 shows the lower and upper face of two blocks to show the projections (4) and indentations (3) of coupling between them, which serve to fix their position and avoid horizontal displacements.

In the upper part of figure 3 the three types of blocks used (A, B and C) for the realization of walls and at the bottom there is a wall made with said  blocks and in which you can see how they fit and hold each other blocks in all directions.

An example of funeral monument made with modular burial proposed: a pyramid. In the upper part you have a section vertical and in the bottom the plants of two consecutive levels. The set shows the arrangement of the walls made with the described blocks and the arrangement of aisles crossing between adjacent plants or on the same floor, and leaving in all a hole central used for the forklift or elevator of the visitors

Detailed presentation of an embodiment

The pyramid of the previous example would constitute (alone or with others) a model of the cemetery with burial modular that is proposed. The mode of its realization.

The construction will be done with the blocks described, which will be made of lightly reinforced concrete and manufactured in molds. It will start from a central core made in one phase initial. Its shape will be pyramid and will have a height of about 20 m, counting on the central elevator for visitors or Used as forklift. On the four faces of this core successive layers of blocks are added, so that in their Growth remains the shape of a complete pyramid. The final construction would have a base of about three hundred meters of side and height around two hundred meters.

The placement of the blocks is done as already it was commented, through a small layer of leveling mortar that facilitates the good transmission of vertical efforts and fills the indentations where the projections of the upper block of way that horizontal landslides are avoided in case of seismic movements.

For this construction three rows will be used of blocks on each floor, with at least 2.80 m of free height in the halls. A volume of 1 m 3 is required for each niche and occupying the blocks twice that the halls will have a capacity of about 3.5 million niches for the pyramid of the given dimensions.

To cover the gaps that form in the corridors by crossing the walls of correlative plants, it they will use concrete plates about 20 cm thick that count on its underside of the same anchoring system of the blocks and it placed just like these.

Claims (1)

1. Cemetery with modular burial that is characterized by using large concrete blocks or other resistant materials (figures 1 and 2), which have cavities (1) where the remains of the deceased are stored along with the data, documents and desired objects, counting in the closing covers (2) with the identification data of each niche. The blocks are joined together by tongue and groove projections (4) and indentations (3) that have on their faces and with the addition of a small amount of leveling and filling mortar, forming cyclopean walls (figure 3) of accessible faces and with those that build great funerary monuments of enormous capacity that constitute in themselves a cemetery, for example a pyramid (figure 4), which for their grandeur, little space required and large amount of stored data can be expected to last in the time of indefinitely