摘要 |
Low cost coffins have been made of cheap wood, cardboard, hard board, or other like materials, often in kit form. it has also been proposed to make coffin kits of sheet metal components and from integral skin polyurethane. These coffins result in undertakers assembly costs and often have costly connecting components. They often have limited preservative ability. The present invention provides a cheap, lightweight and easily transportable coffin of simple construction and with preservative characteristics similar to robust wooden coffins. This is made by forming a jacket (28) of suitably reinforced hard setting material, such as a glass fibre reinforced plastics, and moulding a lining (40) of expanded material, such as polyurethane foam, onto the inner surface of the lining. The coffin lid (14) can be similarly made. <IMAGE> |