EP1506730A1

EP1506730A1 - Modular mattress

Info

Publication number: EP1506730A1
Application number: EP04015964A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Vincenzo Toccacieli; Luigiino Mancinelli
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2003-08-14
Filing date: 2004-07-07
Publication date: 2005-02-16
Also published as: ITBO20030497A1; SM200400004A; SM200400004B

Abstract

A modular mattress is provided with a body (2) approximately parallelepiped shaped with lying faces (3) for an user which are sideways bounded by respective side edges (4), shared with side faces (5).

The mattress includes at least a first connection means (6) one end of which is fixed to a side edge (4) and the opposed end is removably fixable, by removable fixing means (7), to a middle portion of side face (5) that is opposed to said side edge (4).

Description

The present invention relates to furniture accessories and it refers to a modular mattress capable to form a double mattress from two single mattresses.
In order to increase the accommodation capacity, particularly in the hotels, there is the demand to quickly transform rooms with two separated single beds in rooms with a double bed. At the present, this transformation is carried out by placing side by side two single mattresses.
A drawback of said known solutions consists in that the two mattresses are not joined together nor they remain perfectly close each other. For this reason many customers require a real double mattress.
An object of the present invention is to propose a modular single mattress, two exemplars of which can be quickly and easily joined together to obtain a double mattress.
The above-mentioned objects are achieved in accordance with the claims content.
The characteristics of the invention are underlined in the following, with particular reference to the attached drawings, in which:

figure 1 shows a schematic axonometric view of a single modular mattress of the present invention;
figure 2 shows an axonometric view of two exemplars of modular mattress of figure I in a coupled condition to carry out a double mattress;
figures 3 and 4 show front views of the mattresses respectively of figures 1 and 2.

With reference to figures 1 to 4, numeral 1 indicates the mattress of the present invention provided with a body 2, having an almost parallelepiped shape with dimensions corresponding to the dimensions of a single mattress and having the lying faces 3 for an user, sideways bounded by respective side edges 4 which are shared with side faces 5 which are joined by head and feet faces 9.
The mattress 1 include a first connection means 6, which consists of a rectangular piece of cloth having a width equal or shorter than the length of the lying face 3, one side end thereof is fixed to a side edge 4 of body 2, by means of seams, adhesives, metallic or synthetic staples.
In alternative, the invention provides that the piece of cloth can be fixed to the side edge by means of snap fasteners, zippers, self-gripping fasteners or the like, buttons and buttonholes or similar to allow removing the cloth of first connection means 6 from the body.
The opposed side end of the piece of cloth of the connection means 6 is removably fixable to a middle portion of side face 5 opposed to side edge 4, by removable fixing means 7.
The piece of cloth, which constitutes the first connection means 6, is made of fabric, textile or similar of not elasticized type or elasticized type in order to avoid pleats.
The removable fixing means 7 are constituted by snap fasteners, for instance reversible type, or by zip-fasteners, self-gripping fasteners or the like, buttons and buttonholes or similar.
The mattress 1 can also includes second connection means 8 comprising an element made of fabric, cloth or similar, one end of which is irremovably fixed to a head and/or foot face 9 of the respective body and whose remaining end is fixed to the body 2 same or to a body 2 connected thereto of a further mattress 1.
The head and/or foot faces 9 of body 2 have snap fasteners, zip-fasteners, self-gripping fasteners or the like, buttons and buttonholes or similar for removably fixing the free ends of second connection means 8 of the said body and of a body 2 connected thereto.
The operation of the modular mattress object of the present invention, for forming a double mattress by joining together two single modular mattress, provides to position side by side a first mattress 1 to a second mattress 1, rotated with respect to the first one and to fix the snap fasteners of the removable fixing means 7 of the first connection means 6 of a mattress 1 to the snap fastener connections of the removable fixing means 7 of the other mattress 1. In this way, the lying faces 3 of the two mattresses are joined together by the pieces of cloths, without interruptions.
The second connection means 8 strengthen the connection of the head and foot faces 9 of the bodies 2 of the two mattresses 1, contributing to the mutual fixing of these two mattresses.
In alternative, the invention provides that the first connection means 6 comprises a plurality fabric, cloth or similar ribbons, each thereof provided with respective removable fixing means 7.
An advantage of the present invention is to provide a single modular mattress, two exemplars of which can be quickly and easily joined together to obtain a double mattress.

Claims

Modular mattress provided with a body (2) approximately parallelepiped shaped with lying faces (3) for an user which are sideways bounded by respective side edges (4) shared with side faces (5), said mattress being characterized in that it includes at least a first connection means (6) one end of which is fixed to a side edge (4) and the opposed end is removably fixable, by removable fixing means (7), to a middle portion of side face (5) that is opposed to said side edge (4).
Mattress according to claim 1 characterized in that the at least one first connection means (6) consists mainly of at least a piece of fabric or cloth or textile or similar.
Mattress according to claim 1 characterized in that the at least one first connection means (6) includes a plurality of fabric, cloth or similar ribbons, each thereof provided with respective removable fixing means (7).
Mattress according to claim 2 or claim 3 characterized in that the fabric, the cloth or similar is of elasticized type or of not elasticized type.
Mattress according to claim 2 characterized in that the piece of cloth of the first connection means (6) has a width equal or shorter than the length of the lying face (3).
Mattress according to claim 1 characterized in that the removable fixing means (7) are select in the group constituted by snap fasteners, zippers, self-gripping fasteners or the like, buttons and buttonholes or similar.
Mattress according to claim 1 characterized in that the first connection means (6) is fixed to the respective side edge (4) by means of seams, adhesives, metallic or synthetic staples or by means of snap fasteners, zippers, self-gripping fasteners or the like, buttons and buttonholes or similar.
Mattress according to claim 1 characterized in that it includes second connection means (8) fit for connecting head and/or foot faces (9) of two bodies (2) in order to contribute to the mutual fixing of two bodies.
Mattress according to claim 8 characterized in that the second connection means (8) include an element made of fabric, cloth or similar, one end of which is irremovably fixed to the respective body and whose remaining end is removably fixable to said body (2) or to a body (2) of a further mattress (1) which connected to the first body.
Mattress according to claim 9 characterized in that the head and/or foot faces (9) of body (2) have snap fasteners, zippers, self-gripping fasteners or the like, buttons and buttonholes or similar for removably fixing the free ends of the connection means (8) of the said body and of a body (2) connected thereto.