US 12,383,451 B2
Method and apparatus for Islamic burial
Talib Abdul-Samad, New Carrollton, MD (US)
Filed by Talib Abdul-Samad, New Carrollton, MD (US)
Filed on Jul. 11, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/770,475.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/512,948, filed on Jul. 11, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0017803 A1, Jan. 16, 2025
Int. Cl. A61G 19/00 (2006.01); A61G 17/00 (2006.01); A61G 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 19/00 (2013.01) [A61G 17/00 (2013.01); A61G 17/044 (2016.11)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An Islamic burial apparatus, comprising:
a head end wall located opposite a foot end wall;
opposing side walls configured such that a first side wall is located opposite a second side wall;
a bottom wall;
the head end wall, the foot end wall, the opposing side walls, and the bottom wall forming a chamber configured to receive a body of a deceased individual;
the chamber having an inner wall surface;
one or more retaining structures, the one or more retaining structures connected to the inner wall surface of the chamber;
a removable plate, the removable plate having an outer perimeter edge received by at least one of the one or more retaining structures;
wherein at least one of the one or more retaining structures comprises a track connected to the inner wall surface of the chamber;
wherein the removable plate is configured to slidably traverse the track of the at least one of the one or more retaining structures;
wherein the one or more retaining structures are attached to one of the opposing side walls and the head end wall and foot end wall;
wherein the removable plate is configured to be substantially the width of half the head end wall and the foot end wall and substantially the length of at least one of the opposing walls;
wherein the removable plate is configured to retain the body of the deceased individual within the chamber when the Islamic burial apparatus is rotated to position the body from a supine position to a right lateral recumbent position.