Mors 200 Arts Final - Funeral Service Merchandising Chapters 1-3 Part 5

The topmost portion of the casket shell, including the ogee, crown, pie, and header. Will incorporate some or all of the following:

1. Ogee (rim)

2. Crown

3. Pie (Fishtail)

4. Header (Bridge, cap filler)

5. Ogee flange (Rim flange)

6. Gasket channel (transverse gasket channel)

7. Header flange (bridge flange, cap filler flange)

• In a non cut-top casket: all of the above except for the gasket channel and header flange.

• Full couch: only the ogee flange, ogee, crown and pie.

An "S" shaped molding that is a component of the casket cap.

• Exact style can vary widely within a multitude of designs.

• Generally, when viewed in profile, it will appear to resemble a double-curved line, or the joining of convex and concave lines.

The uppermost part of the cap, extending from rim to rim; it can also be considered everything above the rim of the cap.

The wedge-shaped portion of the cap at each end of the crown, and is actually part of the crown.

• Particularly critical area in wood caskets; during construction, great care must be taken to achieve a tight fit and attractive finish with a minimum of filler.

• Wood expanding and contracting can make gaps in this area joins the rest of the crown if poorly engineered.

That portion of the cap/lid that is constructed into caskets that display a cut top; it provides strength/rigidity at the point of the transverse cut.

• Also provides a measure of aesthetic value

• Seen in pairs- one at the foot end of the foot cap and the other at the head end of the foot cap.

Exclusively found on cut-top gasketed caskets; it is an integral part of the foot panel header on gasketed caskets; the function of this is to hold the transverse gasket to seal th space betwen the head and the foot caps.

The turned-under edge or horizontal portion of the header.

• In a gasketed casket, would come into contact with the gasket held in the gasket channel.

That portion of the casket shell containing the top body molding, body panels, base molding, and casket bottom. Will incorporate all or some of the following:

1. Body ledge (top body molding)

2. End body panels and side body panels

3. Base molding

4. Body ledge flange (top body molding flange)

5. Casket bottom

• Actually receives and holds the body of the deceased. Will

A molding along the uppermost edge of the body panels.

The horizontal portion of the top body molding (body ledge) where the gasket is placed on gasketed caskets.

• Present on both gasketed and non-gasketed caskets, it is the body's counterpart to the cap's ogee flange.

For additional support, this is very often reinforced with transverse supports or, in the case of metal caskets, strengthened with stiffeners, elongated indentations stamped into the metal during the manufacturing process.

Refers to the handles, ornamental fixtures, and their fittings that are attached to the casket shell.

• Can be either practical or aesthetic elements

• Rather than using this term with the general public (tends to be cold and a utilitarian implication) use words like "handles," "fittings," "enhancements," or "decorative elements."

Moveable casket handles with hinged arms.

• Seen in both full-length and single (individual) styles

A non-moveable casket handle.

• Seen in both full-length or single varieties

A variety of the stationary bar, appears to completely encircle the casket body, using full-length cars on the casket's sides and single bars on the casket's ends; the gaps betwen handles at the casket's corners are concealed by corner hardware.

What one actually grips when lifting the casket: that part of the casket handle, attached to the lug or arm, which is grasped by the casketbearer.

The decorative or ornamental part of the casket handle that covers the exposed ends of the bar.

• Caps off the bar's ends

A unique handle that is a single handle which the lug, arm, and bar are combined in one unit.

• Attached directly to the casket body panel.

• Seen in some cremation containers or Orthodox Jewish caskets (actually do not have handles)

• Several caskets have handles concealed under the base molding (actually enlarged grooves) or incorporated into the casket's body panels.

• Often has a sleek and unique appearance

• Difficult for pallbearers to carry

An optional part ofthe hardware that is attached to the four corners of the body panels.

• Can add strength and rigidity to the casket or act as lugs for continuous stationary bar handles.

• Aesthetically, can enhance eye appeal and used to cover otherwise visible unfinished weld seams in less expensive caskets.

These items can be placed on compatible cakets to allow families the opportunity to "personalize" the casket.

• Religious, military service, avocational themes

The most expensive hardware production method in which molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to cool, and then removed from the mold.

• Found on better quality caskets

The result of a hardware production method of lesser expense whereby the casket hardward sections are pressed out on a hydraulic press.

• Commonly found on less expensive caskets

A method of molding plastic by injecting molten plastic into a die.

• Plastic hardware (corners, lugs, tip most commonly)

• Plastic may be colored prior to molding or later painted or plated with a metallic finish in order to better coordinate with the casket's color scheme.