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Bedding system

US5231717A · kind A · utility

129Cited by
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19Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJun 24, 1992
Grant dateAug 3, 1993
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 24, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47C31/123
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A modular bedding system which comprises a rigid non-resilient platform having depressions formed in the top surface thereof for the reception of resilient cushions, and a relatively thin mattress supported atop that platform and the cushions. In one preferred embodiment, there is a depression and one cushion located beneath the shoulders of a person reclining atop the mattress of the bedding system and a second cushion located beneath the hips of a person reclining atop the system. In another preferred embodiment, there is a single cushion located in a single depression of the bed but the cushion extends beneath the shoulders to beneath the hips of a person reclining atop the mattress and has a zone of increased firmness located beneath the waist of that person.

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