10a. Wood Caskets Flashcards
What is the definition of casket?
A rigid container which is destined for the encasement of human remains and which is usually constructed of:
- Wood, metal, or like material
- Ornamented
- Lined with fabric
What is this:
A case or receptacle for dead human remains which is anthropoidal in shape (widest at the shoulders, narrowest at the feet)
Coffin
What’s the big difference between coffins and caskets? (that has nothing to do with shape)
Some caskets are cremated with dead human remains
What are the materials used in construction?
Wood
Metal
Fiberglass
Plastic
What are the most often used materials?
Wood
Metal
_______ is a natural material that provides a beautiful and warm appearance
Wood
Prices on caskets depends on what?
- Species of wood
- Amount of worksmanship
What is this:
- From deciduous trees
- Close grained resistant wood
- Usually more expensive
Hardwood
What are deciduous trees?
Trees that loose their leaves annually
What is this:
- From coniferous trees
- Lighter
- More easily cut than hardwood
Softwood
What are coniferous trees?
Cone - bearing trees
Which type of lumbar treatment is this:
- To avoid warping and splitting of final product
- 28 days in a controlled environment
- Reduces moisture content to about 20%
Pre-Dried
Which type of lumbar treatment is this:
- Average of 1-6 months
- Reduces moisture content to about 35%
Air Dried
Which type of lumbar treatment is this:
- 4-7 days
- Reduces moisture content to 5-6%
- Vacuum, steam, and even microwave methods
- Dried lumbar is then stored until it’s ready
- Best way to dry wood
Kiln Drying
Which species of wood is this:
- Smooth, thin layered bark
- Closed grain
- Heavy, white wood
- Often used in kitchen cabinetry
- Accepts a variety of stains
Birch
Which species of wood is this:
- White, closed grained wood
- Often stained in a red hue
- High gloss (not matte, fingerprints can be visible)
Cherry
Which species of wood is this:
- Considered the premier hardwood
- One of most expensive (requires numerous steps in the finishing process)
- Hardest to make
- Imported from Central America and Africa
- Fine grained hardwood
- Reddish brown
Mahogany
Which species of wood is this:
- Light, closed grain wood
- May be finished in any stain
- Commonly used in bowling alley lanes
Maple
Which species of wood is this:
- Known for its strength and durability
- Popular, light colored hardwood
- Most popular
- Typically stained in a medium brown color
- Red and white ___ caskets: approximately 1/3 of all hardwood caskets sold in US
- Commonly used in home interior trim and wood flooring
Oak
Which species of wood is this:
-Like mahogany, this is expensive
- Brown wood
- Decreasing in popularity: due to high cost of raw lumbar
represents 2% of hardwood casket sales
- Rarely used in manufacture of furniture
Walnut
Which species of wood is this:
- Soft wood, varies in grain pattern
- Known by its knots
- Low cost (attractive choice)
Pine
What are knots?
Where the branch was on the wood
What species of wood is this:
- Found in eastern and central US
- Soft white wood
- Adapt to any type of stain
Poplar
What selected hardwood is this:
The component parts of a single casket will not necessarily be constructed of the same species of wood
Salix (Willow)
What selected hardwood is this:
- Gluing together sheets of different materials
- A thin covering or layer over a thick base material
- It’s of finer quality than the inexpensive base
- Mad made product
Laminate
What selected hardwood is this:
- Provides a rich appearance without the high cost of using the solid raw material
Wood Veneer
What wood by-product is this:
- Used to construct lightweight, inexpensive caskets
- Similar to cardboard
- Used in the construction of: alternative containers and caskets for direct disposition
Corrugated fiberboard
What wood by-product is this:
- Particles of wood bonded together with waterproof glue
- No lid, no interior, specifically for cremation)
- Man made product
- Types are distinguished by the size of the particles of wood used (pressed board, particle board, flake board)
- Used s a base for veneer
Composition Board
What wood by-product is this:
- Thin sheets of wood glued together
Grains are at right angles to one another
Odd number of sheets is used so the grain on the front and back will run the same direction
Plywood
Is wood a natural material?
Yes
Will wood eventually decompose of placed directly in soil?
Yes
What does it mean that wood is a porous material?
Water can soak into it
Wood caskets don’t offer the same protection for the dead human body than what?
Protective or gasketed metal caskets
Wood will allow the entrance of what over time?
Water and the earth’s elements
