Patent · US Expired

Anti-surge flotation mattress

US4296510A · kind A · utility

15Cited by
6References
8Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 4, 1979
Grant dateOct 27, 1981
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 4, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47C27/088
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A water bed flotation mattress comprising a bladder of flexible sheet plastic with vertically spaced horizontal top and bottom walls and vertical side and end walls and slackily filled with a fluid medium; said mattress including a thin, flat, flexible, horizontal intermediate wall normally in spaced parallel relationship between the top and bottom walls and a plurality of laterally spaced parallel thin and flexible partitions fixed to and extending between the intermediate and bottom walls and cooperating therewith to define elongate open ended fluid conducting tunnels and float structure about the plane of the intermediate wall to normally buoy up the intermediate wall and partitions within the mattress.

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