casket

casket comes from the diminutive of ark. An ark is called, meanwhile, a kind of box or container.

The idea of ​​chest has different meanings. It may be a small ark that is made with materials of good quality and is intended for the storage of valuable objects.

A chest can be a type of small piece of furniture.

The chest as furniture

It can be indicated, in this framework, that the casket is a Small furniture. It usually has no legs or feet and it has a top that can present a design with inclination (with two slopes) or flat.

Many times the chests exhibit outstanding ornamentation. They can have scale, reliefs or drawings that give it an artistic condition.

In the chests can be stored jewels, family memories or relics. When their content is religious, they are constituted as lockets.

Historical styles and examples

Caskets were popular in medieval times. At that time, chests of different styles, as the gothic chest, the renaissance chest, the romanesque chest and the Byzantine chest.

The chest of San Genadio, for example, was manufactured at the beginning of the X century. With a rectangular base, it is a piece of gold work that is exhibited in the Museum which is part of the Astorga Cathedral (in the Spanish province of Lion).

Of Eleventh century dates the Leyre chest, treasured by Navarre Museum. It was made with silver and ivory and has several carved figures. The chest of Sant Cugat (XIV century) and the chest of Sant Martiria (XV century) are other objects of great historical value.

Manholes are installed in the sanitation networks.

Chest as a deposit

Another use of the chest concept that recognizes the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) in his dictionary alludes to a tank that allows the reception of water and its subsequent distribution. The chamber, therefore, makes it possible to channel the fluid.

The origins of these chests go back to the holes that were created in the past in the houses for the runoff of sewage. Today the chests integrate the sanitation networks.

The usual thing is that the boxes are underground and that they contain the cut-off keys. In its upper part they house a lid that can be removed to proceed with its use. cleaning.

Depending on its location in the netThere are different kinds of chests. Those that join two ducts are called passage boxes, to mention one case, while the sump boxes They collect water from the surface level.

Its use in electricity and telecommunications

It is interesting to mention that the manholes are not only used to channel Water. In the electrical connections, the boxes are boxes that facilitate the cable management.

Distributions and joints are protected in these manholes. For matters of security, must be manufactured with certain materials and comply with specific regulations.

The manholes also contribute to channeling other cables beyond the electrical ones. They are thus used in fiber optic networks exploited in the telecommunications.

Chest Art Shop

Finally, it should be noted that Chest Art Shop is a Colombian company dedicated to the production of easels, canvases and other supplies and implements used in the field of art.

With a history of more than two decades, Chest Art Shop It is based in Bogota. The business It also offers its products through social networks.