DE9320534U1 - Sleep pillow - Google Patents

Description

Applicant: BIO-RONDOM Geräte Handelsg.m.b.H. L914-55

SLEEP PILLOW

The innovation concerns a sleeping pillow according to the generic term of claim 1.

Poor posture and incorrect strain at work and in leisure time often lead to impairments of the human musculoskeletal system and cause wear and tear, particularly in the spinal chain, which disturbs the affected person, especially when sleeping.

In order to improve sleep, it has been found that the affected person must lie down during sleep in the same way as his spine is formed when standing. The sleeping surface and especially the pillow are particularly important for this, as they should immediately remodel the body shape and ensure that the head is positioned in a way that is appropriate for the body during sleep.

For this purpose, a sleeping pillow has become known, for example, under DE-GM 91 06 062, which goes back to the same applicant, and whose aim is also to hold the head of the sleeper in a certain way when lying on his back while sleeping.

This pillow has a rectangular support that is detachably connected to an upper head section that is roughly U-shaped in the middle. This U-shaped profile

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The filling is arranged in the neck and shoulder area of the sleeper, which means that it cannot be moved with the head as the body puts pressure on the lower support.

There are also so-called shaped pillows in which a certain shaped cavity is arranged in a continuous, uniform cushion body. However, these shaped pillows have the disadvantage that they are only adapted to a certain standardized, anatomical condition, so that for particularly small or particularly heavy people, the spine in the neck area cannot be adjusted.

The innovation is based on the task of achieving anatomically correct support of the cervical spine in all sleeping positions, without having to take the sleeper's anatomical peculiarities into account.

0 The solution to the problem is achieved by the technical teaching of claim 1.

The essential feature of the invention is that the cushion according to the invention basically has two areas with different dimensional stability, whereby the soft cushion body forms the first upper area of the cushion, which is connected to the lower edge of the cushion in the second area with an elongated cushion body with a profiled cross-section and a greater dimensional stability, whereby this cushion body is made of latex material.

This second elongated cushion body is arranged in the width direction of the cushion and can be formed over a part or over the entire width.

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This results in the significant advantage that the elongated, harder cushioning serves as a support for the cervical spine that is positioned on it and thus helps maintain the natural spinal line regardless of the sleeping position. If this elongated, harder cushioning has a lens-shaped cross-section, the cervical spine is supported in an anatomically correct manner and creates a spine-friendly position for the neck and head during sleep.

As soon as the sleeper moves, the harder, lens-shaped cushion body will always rest on the cervical spine due to the changing pressure distribution and the heavier head will be pressed into the softer cushion body behind it and positioned there.

The second, harder cushioning body is made of a latex material. This is a soft natural latex material, which is roughly lens-shaped in cross-section and extends essentially across the entire width of the pillow.

The lens shape of the cushion body is important in order to achieve an adaptation to the cervical spine. However, other shapes are also included in the present invention, for example, it can be provided to use a round-profiled soft latex material instead of the lens shape (oval shape).

In a first embodiment of the present invention, it is provided that the harder, lens-shaped

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The upholstered body is surrounded and enclosed by the soft upholstered body in order to achieve the softest possible lying feeling even on this harder upholstered body.

At the same time, the lens-shaped, harder cushion core in the pillow is integrated into the soft cushion part in such a way that this harder cushion body can never shift or twist while sleeping.

Sheep's wool is preferably used as a soft padding material to ensure sufficient sweat removal from the head area during sleep.

Instead of the softer upholstery material made from sheep's wool shown here, other upholstery materials can also be used, such as a fiber fleece, down feathers and the like.

In a further development of the present invention, it is provided that the harder lens-shaped or round-shaped upholstery body is not surrounded by the softer upholstery material, but is connected as a separate upholstery body directly adjacent to the softer upholstery body.

In a preferred development of the two-part pillow, it is provided that a perfect fixation in the pillow is ensured by the harder cushioning body being attached to the cover of the pillow and thus being immovably arranged in its position relative to the softer cushioning material. The use of cross-point stitches has the advantage that, on the one hand, the harder cushioning body is fixed in its position at the lower edge of the pillow, whereby these cross-point stitches can be added later in a simple manner.

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can be easily incorporated into the finished sleeping pillow without losing the cushioning effect in the transition area from the soft cushion body to the harder cushion body.

In a further preferred embodiment, the fixation is designed in the form of a continuous quilted seam, whereby the loss of padding in this area is consciously accepted in order to enable flexible bending of the harder padding body at the lower edge of the sleeping pillow.

On the one hand, this creates the possibility of an attractive pillow design and, on the other hand, it is also possible for the harder cushioning body to be folded back under the softer cushioning body, thus creating additional padding that can be placed under the cervical spine.

In order to prevent the wool fleece from moving in an unacceptable manner over the harder upholstery body, this particularly advantageous embodiment provides for so-called "seams" in the transition area between the harder upholstery body and the soft upholstery body.

Cross-point stitches are applied to the pillow cover, which cross-point stitches are vertically continuous threads arranged at a distance from one another that are anchored in the cover on the top and in the cover on the bottom of the pillow.

The subject matter of the present innovation arises not only from the subject matter of the individual protection claims, but also from the combination of the individual protection claims among themselves. All information and features disclosed in the documents, including the 5 summary, in particular

In particular, the spatial configuration shown in the drawings are claimed as essential to the invention insofar as they are new, individually or in combination, compared to the prior art.
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In the following, the innovation is explained in more detail using drawings that only show one implementation method.

The drawings and their descriptions show further essential features and advantages of the innovation.

Show it:

Figure 1: a cross-sectional view of the new sleeping pillow with a schematic representation of the body-friendly lying position of the spine in comparison to the standing position of the spine;

Figure 2: a cross-sectional view of the sleeping pillow in an unloaded state;

Figure 3: a top view of the sleeping pillow according to a preferred embodiment.

In the lying position of the cervical spine 5 and the head 6 on the new sleeping pillow 1 shown in Figure 1, it can be clearly seen in comparison to the standing spine representation shown next to it that the sleeping pillow conforms to the neck lordosis in the area of the lower edge of the pillow without changing the position of the cervical spine.

5 The illustrated cushion 1 according to the innovation is, as

As can be seen from Figure 3, it is essentially rectangular in shape, with two different cushion bodies 2, 3 being arranged in a cover 4.

The cover 4 essentially consists of an upper cover part and a lower cover part, which are sewn together along the edge of the cushion. The cushion cover interior is filled with a soft cushion body, which in the present embodiment consists of natural sheep's wool. This soft cushion body 2 borders the cover along the entire inner surface of the cover and surrounds a second cushion body 3 in the area of the lower cushion edge 7.

This cushion body 3 is shown here with a lens-shaped cross-section and is surrounded along its entire circumference by the soft cushion material.

The cushion body 3 extends over the entire width of the pillow, in the lower quarter of the pillow height. The cross-sectional shape and size are such that, when the sleeping person is lying on their back, they fit exactly into the hollow space between the sleeping surface and the cervical spine.

This cushion body 3, fitted in new sheep's wool, consists of a light natural latex material, which forms a neck support due to its dimensional stability and at the same time has a climate-regulating effect due to the pores and cavities formed in the lens.

As can be seen from Figures 2 and 3, the harder cushion body 3 is positioned downwards

limited by the lower edge 7 of the cushion 1 and is fixed upwards in the direction of the soft upholstery body 2 by several cross-point stitches formed parallel to the lower edge of the cushion. The cross-point stitches 5 do not form topstitching, in which the upper cover part is connected to the lower cover part, but merely form constrictions, in which the distance between these two cover parts is limited to a predetermined amount.

Since these cross-point stitches are formed with the help of a thread or with the help of a cord through the soft cushion body 2, the cushion 1 can still be crumpled up in the area of these fixations and thus creates an undisturbed and comfortable resting feeling on the cervical spine 5 and the head 6.

0 Another three of these cross-point stitches are also incorporated in the area of the soft cushion body 2 of the cushion 1 and prevent the soft cushion body from slipping within this area.

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1 sleeping pillow

2 soft upholstery

3 profiled, hard upholstery body 4 cover

5 Cervical spine

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7 Cushion bottom edge

Claims (9)

Jf20 PATENT ATTORNEY DR.-ING. PEtefiTHfEB?U& Dipl.-Ing.
EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEY PO Box 3160 D-88113 Lindau (Lake Constance) Telephone (08382)7 8025 Fax (083 82)7 8027 05 10 L 914-55 31.05.1994 15 Applicant: Bio-RONDOM Geräte Handelges.m.b.H., Fellengattnerstr. 8, 6820- Franstanz, Austria PROTECTION CLAIMS 1. Sleeping pillow, which is placed on a mattress or the like, with a soft cushion body for lying down and supporting a head, characterized in that the pillow (1) has two areas with different dimensional stability, the soft cushion body (2) forming the first, upper area, which is connected to the lower edge (7) of the pillow in the second area with an elongated cushion body (3) made of latex material with a profiled cross-section and greater dimensional stability, which is arranged in the width direction of the pillow (1), the cushion body (3) being made of latex material. —2— Bank accounts: Postal savings account Bayer, Vereinsbank Lindau IB) No. "257 110(BLZ 600202 90) Munich .**öyP9*^anl»»ndaMB)Wt«S6i(l-iie,S43iBLZ733 204 42) 414 848-803 ·. Wkslsank LinSati (&Bgr;?&Ngr;&Idigr;.&ohacgr;1 222 Q<X £1^650 920 10) (BLZ 70010080) iAlNF?Di*i29il20!39 I · ··· Telex,· House address: 5 4374(patent-d) Racer 10 Telegram address: D-88131 Lindau patn-lindau 2. Sleeping pillow according to claim 1, characterized in that the second elongated cushion body (3) has a lens-shaped cross-section and is formed essentially over the entire width of the pillow (1). 3. Sleeping pillow according to claim 1, characterized in that the elongated cushion body (3) has a round cross-section. 4. Sleeping pillow according to one of claims 1 - 3, characterized in that the profiled cushion body (3) is fixed in its position in the sleeping pillow (1). 5. Sleeping pillow according to claim 4, characterized in that the profiled cushion body (3) is integrated in the soft cushion body (2) and is surrounded by the soft cushion material. 6. Sleeping pillow according to claim 5, wherein the cushion bodies (2, 3) are surrounded by a cushion cover (4), characterized in that in the transition area between the soft cushion body (2) and the profiled cushion body (3) fixings are provided which connect the cover part on the top side with the cover part on the bottom side of the pillow (1). 7. Sleeping pillow according to claim 6, characterized in that the fixings are designed in the form of cross-point stitches (5) which connect the cover parts (4) to one another at a mutual distance. &bull;&diams; 8. Sleeping pillow according to claim 6, characterized in that the fixings are designed in the form of a quilting seam which sews the cover parts together. 9. Sleeping pillow according to one of claims 1-9, characterized in that the soft cushion body (2) is made of sheep's wool.