Abstract: A mattress or a mattress pad with one or more gel sections. The gel section may provide improved support and comfort at a localized area of a mattress or a mattress pad.

Abstract: A reversible mattress includes a first outer region and a core region placed beneath the first outer region. The core region includes at least one core portion. The reversible mattress further includes a second outer region placed beneath the core region. The first outer region, the core region, and the second outer region are each made of latex foam and form the reversible mattress. The first outer region has a first outer ILD (ILDT1) and the second outer region has a second outer ILD (ILDT2) such that the first outer ILD (ILDT1) is lower than the second outer ILD (ILDT2).

Abstract: This invention is a sound-insulating enclosure that contains at least one bed, in which one or more people sleep, wherein the configuration of this enclosure automatically changes from a more-closed configuration to a more-open configuration over time, or vice versa. These changes in configuration can be in response to sounds or can occur in a pre-programmed manner.

Abstract: An improved sleeper bed for over-the-road trucks comprises a first upper frame and a second lower frame with an air spring mounted between the first and second frames for dampening the movement of the frames toward one another. A pair of scissors-like struts extend between the upper and lower frames and allow the upper frame to move up and down according to the amount of force thereon. A pair of pillow block bearings are mounted to braces on the lower frame. A pair of guide rods extend downwardly from the upper frame and are telescopically received in respective pillow block bearings. The pillow block bearings allow the guide rods to shift or pivot slightly when horizontal forces are experienced by the sleeper bed so as to reduce the shock felt by a user thereon.

Abstract: A drop-in spring unit seat assembly includes a top grid spaced from a bottom grid having conical springs positioned therebetween. The conical springs are snap-fit for attachment to the top grid and/or bottom grid and require no mechanical fasteners nor complicated tools for such attachment. A pair of opposed detents are formed in the top and/or bottom turns of the spring and/or the detents formed in grid wires extending on the top and/or bottom grid. The opposed detent in the springs snap-fit engage with the depressions in the grid wires and a plurality of springs are interposed between the top grid and bottom grid to form the spring unit assembly. In selected embodiments, the spring unit includes multiple bottom grids attached via springs to a single top grid. The assembled spring unit can be dropped into a chair, seat or other article of furniture for attachment to and support by a pair of spaced frame members of the chair or other article of furniture.

Abstract: Bed shims comprise a plurality of bed shim units including flexible front and rear plates and a rigid central plate, the plates being secured together, the rear plate having a flat surface including a peel-off adhesive backing, each bed shim unit includes two circular holes extending therethrough, two parallel longitudinal perforations extending between the circular holes of each bed shim unit, the parallel longitudinal perforations defining a generally rectangular area between the circular holes, the generally rectangular area of each bed shim unit adapted to be punched out to define a generally oval shaped hole extending therethrough.

Abstract: A spring cushion structure with a plurality of hour-glass shaped spring coils arranged in columns and rows with adjacent springs within a row connected at the top and bottom by a helical wire extending between adjacent columns and with the marginal coils attached at the top to a border wire extending around the assembly. A transparent sheet is placed between the bottoms of the assembly and support sinuous wires which are bent to provide an upwardly extending integral suspending arm and bent again to provide an outwardly extending shepherd hook shaped attachment arm which is attached to a wood frame surrounding the periphery of the entire structure.

Abstract: A mattress spring assembly is disclosed having increased firmness in a preselected center area of the mattress. This increased firmness is achieved through use of a grid structure attached to the opposite sides of the mattress. This grid structure comprises plastic straps extending diametrically across the mattress in the center third area and overlaid by a preformed wire grid. The plastic straps and wire grid are attached to the preassembled spring core by conventional connectors such as metal clips and/or hog rings.

Abstract: A seat pad support (12) disclosed includes at least one strip (22,24) of generally flexible tape which is preferably of the pressure sensitive type extending laterally between elongated supports preferably embodied by wire torsion bar springs (16) that cooperatively support a foam pad on a seat frame (14), whereby the tape connection of the springs facilitates storage, handling, and assembly. In the preferred construction, two end strips (22,24) of the tape respectively connect end torsion bars (28,30) of the springs (16). Each end tape strip (22,24) is folded and bonded to itself and preferably includes recesses (46) associated with the torsion bars (28,30) connected thereby so as to facilitate connection of the springs to the frame.

Abstract: A mattress box spring and method of assembly comprising a plurality of substantially conical coil springs rigidly fastened at the spring ends of lesser diameter to a support frame such that the spring end coils of greater diameter lie in a substantially common plane, a wire mesh coated with elastomeric material overlying the end coils in the common plane with the spring end coils being unattached or free-floating with respect to the mesh and with respect to each other, and a cloth cover or pad disposed over the mesh and having a periphery attached to the frame to hold the assembly together. Preferably, the diameter of each spring end coil lying in the common plane is greater than the corresponding spring height. The coating on the wire mesh, which preferably is of latex material, provides enhanced frictional contact between the mesh and springs, and also deadens rattling between the opposing spring and mesh surfaces.

Abstract: A bed comprising a frame, a mattress supported on the frame, and at the head of the bed a closure or chamber composed of two shell portions, to wit, a fixed lower portion fixed to the frame and a movable portion movable between an open position where it is retracted on the fixed portion and provides free access to the head of the bed and a closed position in which it leaves only a small opening towards the foot of the bed. Each shell portion of the chamber is constituted by a rigid frame covered with a sound insulating material and a sound absorbing material. The movable portion is itself constituted by two parts articulated to one another and to the fixed portion around a common horizontal transverse axis. One part of the movable portion is transparent and capable of being retracted into the other part which is opaque.

Abstract: A foundation in the nature of a bedspring for use beneath a mattress to support the same upon a bedframe or the like, having a peripheral base frame for supporting the foundation and having structure rising from the peripheral frame inwardly thereof to provide a stable, elevated platform which is substantially unyielding in its central area under the normal loads imposed upon a bedspring, and which, at least in its side edge areas, is resiliently yieldable in response to vertical load.