Abstract: A liquid carrying, thermoplastic coated paperboard container including a top end closure, a four-sided body portion, and a bottom end closure, wherein various end closure panels are folded so as to abut against one another to become sealed thereagainst. To effectuate the sealing, a pressure sensitive, food grade adhesive is applied to at least one of each two abutting surfaces and the abutting surfaces are pressed together without the application of heat or high frequency vibration. The adhesive may be applied to the blank during the converting process, or while the blank is being formed into a container on the forming, filling and sealing machine.

Abstract: A free floating wave control unit in combination with a water bed mattress and detachably disposed interiorly therein and coextensive of the top panel of the mattress and comprised of a floatable frame carrying thick fiber batting underlying the top panel and free hanging curtains to intercept and damp out wave motion, and there being marginal walls of thick fiber batting adjacent to the side and end panels of the mattress to damp reflective wave motion.

Abstract: A free floating wave motion absorber confined within a water bed mattress for firm body support with omni-directional rate control over motion, so that disturbing movements are substantially reduced and virtually eliminated, by a multiplicity of circulation cells that individually restrict both downward and upward water flow, retard depression or sudden bottoming, and that co-act jointly to transfer lateral displacement forces.

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.

Abstract: An elongate flotation mattress having horizontal top and bottom walls, vertical side and end walls, a plurality of vertical, laterally spaced, longitudinally extending partitions between the top and bottom walls and coextensive with the major central portion of the mattress and defining longitudinally extending fluid conducting tunnels; and a fluid medium slackly filling the mattress structure; the partitions are serpentine and are arranged whereby each tunnel defines a plurality of longitudinally spaced flow restricting venturi and circulating chambers between the venturi to slow and dampen surging and residual wave action of fluid when fluid within the mattress is displaced by forces directed onto the top wall; the mattress further includes apertured flow-controlling diaphragms at the ends of the tunnels.

Abstract: A water bed mattress comprised of upper and lower flexible sheets which are provided with peripherally extending downwardly and upwardly struck flaps, respectively, at their outer peripheral ends. These flaps are sealed to each other in order to form a completely enclosed mattress. A tapered, angularly struck inner peripheral wall extends effectively between the upper and lower walls of the water bed mattress in such manner that the upper end of the inner peripheral wall extends to the outer peripheral margin of the upper wall and the lower end of the inner peripheral wall terminates inwardly of the outer peripheral margin of the lower wall. In this way, the inner peripheral wall operates in conjunction with the upper wall in order to form an inner water chamber which is essentially coextensive with the entire upper surface of the upper wall. An air chamber is formed by the other side of the inner peripheral wall, the outer wall and the lower wall.

Abstract: A water bed mattress with means for heating the same and with means for controlling heat losses therefrom. In one embodiment of the invention, the water bed mattress comprises a pair of upper and lower sheets connected by a peripheral side wall to form a water chamber therein. An electrically energizable heating element is located adjacent one of the sheets and is enclosed by a piece of plastic forming a heat-generating chamber therein. An electrical cord extends outwardly from this heat-generating chamber for ultimate connection to a source of electrical power. The actual electrically energizable heating means may adopt a variety of forms including a coil located in the heat generating chamber, or otherwise a strip heater or similar forms of heating elements. A heat sensor may be located within the water chamber and is connected to a feedback controller which is in turn connected through a temperature regulator, such as a variostat, to the heating means.

Abstract: A water bed mattress comprised of upper and lower flexible foldable sheets which are essentially rectangular in shape. The upper sheet is essentially formed by folding up portions of the lower sheet upwardly and inwardly and transversely sealing end margins of the folded up portions, and also thereby creating two peripheral transversely extending side wall sections. In addition, longitudinal end portions of the upper and lower sheets are also folded downwardly and upwardly, respectively, and sealed to each other to thereby form longitudinally extending side wall sections, and which, together with the upper and lower sheets, create an internal water chamber. In the making of the water bed mattress, end cut-outs are formed in the sheets. Moreover, insert panels are heat-sealed to the interior portions of the side wall sections to cover these cut-outs and thereby seal the interior of the mattress.

Abstract: A mattress construction having a liquid containing chamber formed by an upper sheet, a lower sheet and a peripherally extending side wall and which liquid containing chamber may be filled with water or similar liquid. A material filled cylinder, which may constitute an air chamber, is located along the peripheral portion of the liquid containing chamber. When the mattress construction is disposed within a frame, the peripheral material filled cylinder surrounds the peripheral portions of the lower sheet forming the water chamber in registry with the peripherally extending side wall and provides support thereto. Thus, the upper sheet of the mattress construction is substantially supported by liquid within the liquid chamber to support an individual lying thereon. Moreover, rigid peripheral support is provided by the material filled cylinder which surrounds the periphery of the water chamber. The present invention also provides a unique method of making the mattress constructions of the present invention.

Abstract: A water bed mattress comprised of upper and lower flexible sheets which are provided with peripherally extending downwardly and upwardly struck flaps, respectively, at their outer peripheral ends. These flaps are sealed to each other in order to form a completely enclosed mattress. A tapered, angularly struck inner peripheral wall extends effectively between the upper and lower walls of the water bed mattress in such manner that the upper end of the inner peripheral wall extends to the outer peripheral margin of the upper wall and the lower end of the inner peripheral wall terminates inwardly of the outer peripheral margin of the lower wall. In this way, the inner peripheral wall operates in conjunction with the upper wall in order to form an inner water chamber which is essentially coextensive with the entire upper surface of the upper wall. An air chamber is formed by the other side of the inner peripheral wall, the outer wall and the lower wall.

Abstract: A water bed mattress for supporting an individual in an inclined position which is comprised of an upper sheet and a lower sheet and both of which are formed of a foldable, flexible plastic material. A continuous outer side wall extends between and is secured in operative relationship to the upper and lower sheets. A continuous panel is operatively secured to the upper sheet inwardly of the peripheral end margin of the upper sheet by means of a first continuous seal. This latter panel is also secured to the upper sheet at a point in close proximity to the peripheral margin thereof by a second continuous peripheral seal in order to form a material-containing chamber which is bounded by a portion of the upper sheet between the first and second seals. A liquid chamber is bounded by the lower sheet, the side wall and the remaining portion of the upper sheet and said panel.

Abstract: A mattress having an upper fluid containing chamber and a lower chamber filled with a material rendering it effectively more rigid and which surrounds a portion of the fluid chamber. The mattress is comprised of upper and lower flexible sheets which are provided with peripherally extending downwardly and upwardly struck flaps, respectively, at their outer peripheral ends. These flaps are sealed to each other in order to form a completely enclosed mattress. A tapered, angularly struck inner peripheral wall extends effectively between the upper and lower walls of the mattress in such manner that the upper end of the inner peripheral wall extends to the outer peripheral margin of the upper wall and the lower end of the inner peripheral wall terminates inwardly of the outer peripheral margin of the lower wall. In this way, the inner peripheral wall operates in conjunction with the upper wall in order to form an inner fluid chamber which is essentially coextensive with the entire upper surface of the upper wall.

Abstract: A water bed mattress comprised of upper and lower flexible foldable sheets which are essentially rectangular in shape. The upper sheet is essentially formed by folding up portions of the lower sheet upwardly and inwardly and transversely sealing end margins of the folded up portions, and also thereby creating two peripheral transversely extending side wall sections. In addition, longitudinal end portions of the upper and lower sheets are also folded downwardly and upwardly, respectively, and sealed to each other to thereby form longitudinally extending side wall sections, and which, together with the upper and lower sheets, create an internal water chamber. In the making of the water bed mattress, end cut-outs are formed in the sheets. Moreover, insert panels are heat-sealed to the interior portions of the side wall sections to cover these cut-outs and thereby seal the interior of the mattress.

Abstract: A water bed mattress comprised of upper and lower flexible sheets which are provided with peripherally extending downwardly and upwardly struck flaps, respectively, at their outer peripheral ends. These flaps are sealed to each other in order to form a completely enclosed mattress. A tapered, angularly struck inner peripheral wall extends effectively between the upper and lower walls of the water bed mattress in such manner that the upper end of the inner peripheral wall extends to the outer peripheral margin of the upper wall and the lower end of the inner peripheral wall terminates inwardly of the outer peripheral margin of the lower wall. In this way, the inner peripheral wall operates in conjunction with the upper wall in order to form an inner water chamber which is essentially coextensive with the entire upper surface of the upper wall. An air chamber is formed by the other side of the inner peripheral wall, the outer wall and the lower wall.