Adjustable Fitted Bed Sheet

Abstract

An adjustable fitted bed sheet for a first sized mattress and a second sized mattress, the adjustable fitted bed sheet comprising a first top portion and at least one second top portion, the first top portion configured to substantially cover a top of a first sized mattress, and the first top portion and the at least one second top portions configured to substantially cover a top of a second sized mattress. The adjustable fitted bed sheet may include a number of elastic stitch elements having a coefficient of elasticity that may differ from another. A bottom peripheral edge portion is also provided that defines a hollow cylindrical edge portion substantially parallel to the bottom peripheral edge portion. A securing apparatus may also be provided that is configured to reciprocally engage at least one aperture defined by the bottom peripheral edge portion.

Description

PRIORITY CLAIM

To the full extent permitted by law, the present United States Non-Provisional patent application hereby claims priority to and the full benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/981,588, filed Feb. 26, 2020, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

BACKGROUND

The present disclosure generally relates to bed sheets and/or linens that are adjustable to differently sized mattresses, such as a king-sized mattress and a queen-sized mattress. Presently, fitted bed sheets and/or flat bed sheets have been produced in varying sizes to accommodate different bed mattress sizes. For example, a standard king-sized bed usually is 76″ wide and 80″ long, while a standard queen-sized bed usually is 60″ wide and 80″ long. California King-sized beds measure at 72″ wide and 84″ long, while twin and full-sized beds measure 39″×75″ and 54″×75″ respectively. Likewise, twin-XL and full-XL-sized beds both have lengths measuring 80″ long, while the twin-XL's width measures 39″ wide and the full-XL's width measures 54″ wide. Furthermore, mattress beds of any size may have varying depths depending on the materials, construction, and technology employed. Households with multiple members usually have multiple beds that differ in size from another. Adult couples may have a king-sized bed, while children may have a smaller sized bed, such as a queen-sized bed. Therefore, a need exists for an adjustable fitted bed sheet that can securely accommodate differently sized mattress easily and adjustably.

BRIEF SUMMARY

Example implementations of the present disclosure are directed to an adjustable fitted bed sheet configured to reciprocally engage a first sized mattress and a differently sized second mattress. An adjustable fitted bed sheet for a first sized mattress and a second sized mattress, the adjustable fitted bed sheet may include a first top portion configured to substantially cover a top of a first sized mattress, the top of the first mattress being defined by a length and a width of the first sized mattress, wherein at least one of the length, width, and/or height of the first sized mattress differs from a length, width, and/or height of the second sized mattress, wherein the first top portion is defined by a substantially rectangular area defined, in part, by a plurality of intersections between sets of a first elastic stitch element and a second elastic stitch element, wherein the first elastic stitch element includes a first elastomer material having a different coefficient of elasticity than a coefficient of elasticity of a second elastomer material of the second elastic stitch element.

The adjustable fitted bed sheet may further include at least one second top portion, the second top portions, in cooperation with the first top portion, being configured to substantially cover a top of the second sized mattress, the top of the second sized mattress being defined by the length and the width of the second sized mattress, wherein the second top portions are defined by a substantially rectangular area defined, in part, by a plurality of intersections between a pair of first elastic stitch elements.

Additionally or alternatively, the adjustable fitted bed sheet may include a bottom peripheral edge portion, wherein the bottom peripheral edge portion is defined by bottom edge portions of the bed sheet that intersect with a plurality of distal ends of a respective third elastic stitch element, wherein the bottom peripheral edge portion further defines a hollow cylindrical edge portion substantially parallel to the bottom peripheral edge portion.

The adjustable fitted bed sheet may further include a securing apparatus configured to reciprocally engage at least one aperture defined by the bottom peripheral edge portion.

According to some aspects of the present disclosure, the adjustable fitted bed sheet may include an inner surface of the hollow cylindrical edge portion. In some aspects, the hollow cylindrical edge portion inner surface may include a low draw material substrate. The securing apparatus may further include an adjustable closed loop reciprocally engaged with the hollow cylindrical edge portion of the bottom peripheral edge portion. In some aspects, the adjustable closed loop may be reciprocally engaged with at least one of the at least one aperture defined by the bottom peripheral edge portion.

According to some aspects of the present disclosure, the bottom edge portions may further include a substrate layer configured to reciprocally engage a bottom of a first and a second sized mattress, wherein the substrate layer has a greater coefficient of friction than the bottom edge portions.

In some example implementations, the adjustable fitted bed sheet may include a secondary top sheet. According to some aspects, the secondary top sheet may be securely affixed to at least one portion of the bottom edge portion of the adjustable fitted bed sheet. According to another example implementation, a secondary top sheet bottom edge may be securely affixed to at least one portion of the bottom edge portion of the adjustable fitted bed sheet. In some aspects of the present disclosure, at least a portion of a secondary top sheet left edge and a secondary top sheet right edge may be removably attached to at least one bottom edge portion of the adjustable fitted bed sheet.

The foregoing illustrative summary, as well as other exemplary objectives and/or advantages of various embodiments of the present disclosure, and the manner in which the same are accomplished, are further explained within the following detailed description and its accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present disclosure will be better understood by reading the Detailed Description with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are not necessarily drawn to scale, and in which like reference numerals denote similar structure and refer to like elements throughout, and in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of an adjustable fitted bed sheet engaged with a second sized mattress according to one aspect of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 illustrates a perspective view of an adjustable fitted bed sheet engaged with a first sized mattress according to one aspect of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 illustrates a perspective view of an adjustable fitted bed sheet according to one aspect of the present disclosure; and

FIG. 4 illustrates a perspective view of an adjustable fitted bed sheet according to one aspect of the present disclosure;

It is to be noted that the drawings presented are intended solely for the purpose of illustration and that they are, therefore, neither desired nor intended to limit the disclosure to any or all of the exact details of construction shown, except insofar as they may be deemed essential to the claimed disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Some embodiments of the present disclosure will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which some, but not all embodiments of the present disclosure are shown. Indeed, the exemplary embodiments may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy applicable legal requirements. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

Referring now to FIG. 1, an adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 according to one example aspect may include a top portion 10. In some aspects, the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may include a first top portion 11 that is configured to substantially cover a top of a first-sized mattress, such as, for example, a queen-sized mattress. According to some aspects, the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may include first top portion 11 that is configured to cover a portion of a top of a second-sized mattress, such as, for example, a king-sized mattress. Additionally or alternatively, the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may include a first top portion 11 that is configured to substantially cover a top of a first sized mattress and/or a second sized mattress.

According to some aspects of the present disclosure, the top of the first and second mattress may be defined by the length and the width of the respective mattresses. According to one aspect, the first-sized mattress may have a length, width, and/or height that differs from at least one of the length, width and/or height of the second-sized mattress.

Additionally, the first top portion 11 of the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may be defined by a substantially rectangular area defined, in part, by a plurality of intersections between sets of a first elastic stitch element 210A, 210C, 210E, 210G and a second elastic stitch element 220A, 220B, 220C, 220D. Some aspects of the present disclosure include an adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 having at least one or more elastic stitch elements, such as the first elastic stitch element 210A, disposed proximate an associated first elastic stitch line 201A of the sheet 5. Additionally or alternatively, a first elastic stitch element 210A may differ from a second elastic stitch element 220A by length, width, elasticity, and/or the like, and/or in any combination.

Referring to FIG. 1, according to one example embodiment of the present disclosure, a top portion 10 of an adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may include at least one second top portion 12A. In some aspects, the adjustable fitted bed sheet may include a plurality of second top portions 12A, 12B that are configured, in conjunction with the first top portion 11, to substantially cover a top of the second-sized mattress, such as, for example, a king-sized mattress. According to some embodiments, the second top portions 12A may be defined, in part, by a plurality of intersections between pairs of first elastic stitch elements, such as the pair of first elastic stitch element 210A and 210B.

An example embodiment of the present disclosure will now be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, in which certain elements of the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may be utilized for reciprocally engaging the adjustable fitted bed sheet with a first-sized mattress and a second, differently-sized mattress. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 includes a first top portion 11 and second top portions 12A, 12B configured to substantially cover a king-sized mattress bed. The first top portion 11 may be defined by a substantially rectangular area defined, in part, by a plurality of intersections between sets of a first elastic stitch element and a second elastic stitch element. One example aspect includes a first top portion 11 defined by a substantially rectangular area defined by the vertices corresponding to the respective intersections of the first elastic stitch element 210A and the second elastic stitch element 220A, the first elastic stitch element 210C and the second elastic stitch element 220B, the first elastic stitch element 210E and the second elastic stitch element 220C, and the first elastic stitch element 210G and the second elastic stitch element 220D. As shown in FIG. 2, the first top portion 11 defined by the substantially rectangular area defined by the plurality of intersections between sets out the first elastic stitch elements 210A, 210C, 210E, 210G and the second elastic stitch elements 220A, 220B, 220C, 220D substantially cover the top of a queen-sized mattress. Referring back to FIG. 1, the first top portion 11 and the second top portions 12A, 12B are shown to substantially cover the top of the wider king-sized mattress.

According to some example aspects of the present disclosure, the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may further include at least one bottom peripheral edge portion 20. In some aspects of the present disclosure, the bottom peripheral edge portion 21 may be defined, in part, by the plurality of intersections of third elastic stitch elements 230A, 230B, 230C, 230D with a respective first elastic stitch element 210B, 210D, 210F, 210H and second elastic stitch element 220A, 220B, 220C, 220D. In some example aspects of the present disclosure, at least one of the bottom peripheral edge portions 21, 22, 23, 24 may further define, in part, a hollow cylindrical edge portion 301 substantially parallel to a respective bottom peripheral edge portion 21, 22, 23, 24.

According to some aspects, an adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may further include a securing apparatus 300 that may further include an adjustable closed loop 310, such as a drawstring. The adjustable closed loop 310 may be further configured to reciprocally engage the hollow cylindrical edge portion 301 defined by at least one of the bottom peripheral edge portions 21, 22, 23, 24. In some aspects, the adjustable closed loop 310 may be inserted through at least one of an aperture 305A, 305B configured to provide access to the hollow cylinder 302 defined by the hollow cylindrical edge portion 301.

In some example aspects of the present disclosure, at least one of the bottom edge portions 21, 22, 23, 24 may further include a substrate layer configured to reciprocally engage at least a portion of a bottom surface of a first-sized mattress and/or reciprocally engage at least a portion of a bottom surface of a second-sized mattress. According to one example aspect, the substrate layer may have a greater coefficient of friction than the bottom edge portions 21, 22, 23, 24, and may be further configured to frictionally engage at least a portion of a bottom surface of a first and/or second-sized mattress.

According to another example aspect of the present disclosure, an adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may further include a secondary top sheet 400, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. Referring to FIG. 3, the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may further include a secondary top sheet 400 that is securely affixed to at least one portion of the bottom edge portion 21. Together, the secondary top sheet 400 and the top portion 10 of the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 define a sleeping pocket 402 therebetween. For example, a secondary top sheet 400, such as, for example a flat bed sheet, may be securely affixed to a first bottom edge portion 21 disposed proximate the foot of the first and/or second-sized mattress. In some example aspects, the secondary top sheet 400 may be securely affixed to the bottom edge portion 21 with a stitching, adhesive, and/or other secure attachment means known in the art. For example, a bottom edge of the secondary top sheet 400 may be securely stitched to a first bottom edge portion 21. In yet another aspect, the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5 may include a secondary top sheet 400, wherein at least a portion of a secondary top sheet 400 left edge and a secondary top sheet right edge are removably attached to at least one bottom edge portion 22, 24 respectively. For example, at least a portion of the secondary top sheet 400 left edge and at least a portion of the secondary top sheet right edge may include a hook-and-loop fastener material configured to removeably attach the respective edges of the secondary top sheet 400 with at least one bottom edge portion 22, 24. According to another aspect, at least a portion of a secondary top sheet 400 left edge and a secondary top sheet right edge may include a zipper configured to removably attach a portion of the secondary top sheet from at least one bottom edge portion 22, 24 of the adjustable fitted bed sheet 5.

Many modifications and other embodiments of the present disclosure set forth herein will come to mind to one skilled in the art to which these embodiments pertain having the benefit of the teachings presented in the foregoing descriptions and the associated drawings. Therefore, it is to be understood that the embodiments are not to be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed and that modifications and other embodiments are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims. Moreover, although the foregoing descriptions and the associated drawings describe some example embodiments in the context of certain example combinations of elements and/or functions, it should be appreciated that different combinations of elements and/or functions may be provided by alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In this regard, for example, different combinations of elements and/or functions than those explicitly described above are also contemplated as may be set forth in some of the appended claims. Although specific terms are employed herein, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation.

Claims

1. An adjustable fitted bed sheet for a first sized mattress and a second sized mattress, the adjustable fitted bed sheet comprising:

a first top portion configured to substantially cover a top of a first sized mattress, the top of the first mattress being defined by a length and a width of the first sized mattress, wherein at least one of the length, width, and/or height of the first sized mattress differs from a length, width, and/or height of the second sized mattress, wherein the first top portion is defined by a substantially rectangular area defined, in part, by a plurality of intersections between sets of a first elastic stitch element and a second elastic stitch element, wherein the first elastic stitch element includes a first elastomer material having a different coefficient of elasticity than a coefficient of elasticity of a second elastomer material of the second elastic stitch element;

at least one second top portion, the second top portions, in cooperation with the first top portion, being configured to substantially cover a top of the second sized mattress, the top of the second sized mattress being defined by the length and the width of the second sized mattress, wherein the second top portions are defined by a substantially rectangular area defined, in part, by a plurality of intersections between a pair of first elastic stitch elements;

a bottom peripheral edge portion, wherein the bottom peripheral edge portion is defined by bottom edge portions of the bed sheet that intersect with a plurality of distal ends of a respective third elastic stitch element, wherein the bottom peripheral edge portion further defines a hollow cylindrical edge portion substantially parallel to the bottom peripheral edge portion; and

a securing apparatus configured to reciprocally engage at least one aperture defined by the bottom peripheral edge portion.

2. An adjustable fitted bed sheet according to claim 1, wherein an inner surface of the hollow cylindrical edge portion further comprises a low drag substrate material.

3. An adjustable fitted bed sheet according to claim 1, wherein the securing apparatus further comprises an adjustable closed loop reciprocally engaged with the hollow cylindrical edge portion of the bottom peripheral edge portion.

4. An adjustable fitted bed sheet according to claim 3, wherein the adjustable closed loop is further reciprocally engaged with at least one of the at least one aperture defined by the bottom peripheral edge portion.

5. An adjustable fitted bed sheet according to claim 1, wherein the bottom edge portions further include a substrate layer configured to reciprocally engage a bottom of a first and a second sized mattress, wherein the substrate layer has a greater coefficient of friction than the bottom edge portions.

6. An adjustable fitted bed sheet according to claim 1 further comprising a secondary top sheet.

7. An adjustable fitted bed sheet according to claim 6, wherein the secondary top sheet is securely affixed to at least one portion of the bottom edge portion.

8. An adjustable fitted bed sheet according to claim 6, wherein a secondary top sheet bottom edge is securely affixed to at least one portion of the bottom edge portion of the adjustable fitted bed sheet.

9. An adjustable fitted bed sheet according to claim 8, wherein at least a portion of a secondary top sheet left edge and a secondary top sheet right edge are removably attached to at least one bottom edge portion of the adjustable fitted bed sheet.