EP1506730A1 - Modular mattress - Google Patents

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EP1506730A1
EP1506730A1 EP04015964A EP04015964A EP1506730A1 EP 1506730 A1 EP1506730 A1 EP 1506730A1 EP 04015964 A EP04015964 A EP 04015964A EP 04015964 A EP04015964 A EP 04015964A EP 1506730 A1 EP1506730 A1 EP 1506730A1
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mattress
connection means
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mattress according
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Vincenzo Toccacieli
Luigiino Mancinelli
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C17/00—Sofas; Couches; Beds
    • A47C17/04—Seating furniture, e.g. sofas, couches, settees, or the like, with movable parts changeable to beds; Chair beds
    • A47C17/32—Changing a single bed into a double bed by extending, pivoting, or tilting a previously hidden second mattress or other bed part
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C27/00—Spring, stuffed or fluid mattresses or cushions specially adapted for chairs, beds or sofas
    • A47C27/001—Spring, stuffed or fluid mattresses or cushions specially adapted for chairs, beds or sofas with several cushions, mattresses or the like, to be put together in one cover

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  • the present invention relates to furniture accessories and it refers to a modular mattress capable to form a double mattress from 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • connection means 6 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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EP04015964A 2003-08-14 2004-07-07 Modular mattress Withdrawn EP1506730A1 (en)

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ITBO20030497 2003-08-14
ITBO20030497 ITBO20030497A1 (it) 2003-08-14 2003-08-14 Materasso componibile.

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Citations (9)

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US814654A (en) * 1905-06-06 1906-03-06 Philip E Hannum Sectional mattress.
US1154776A (en) * 1914-07-27 1915-09-28 William Evans Joseph Mattress.
US2879523A (en) * 1956-11-09 1959-03-31 Alice M Klassen Mattress construction
US2924833A (en) * 1957-05-02 1960-02-16 Martha I Klogether Draw sheet and mattress protector
US2982976A (en) * 1959-06-23 1961-05-09 Ferolito John Protective covering for bed inserts
US3129438A (en) * 1961-10-30 1964-04-21 Hall Rex Credell Adjustable mattress and bed pan for use therewith
EP1192885A1 (en) * 2000-10-02 2002-04-03 The Procter & Gamble Company Disposable moisture vapour permeable, liquid impermeable covering sheet for bedding articles containing active agents
JP2002159372A (ja) * 2000-11-22 2002-06-04 Romance Kosugi:Kk 分割式敷布団
US6421859B1 (en) * 1999-06-03 2002-07-23 Kci Licensing, Inc. Patient support systems with layered fluid support mediums

Patent Citations (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US814654A (en) * 1905-06-06 1906-03-06 Philip E Hannum Sectional mattress.
US1154776A (en) * 1914-07-27 1915-09-28 William Evans Joseph Mattress.
US2879523A (en) * 1956-11-09 1959-03-31 Alice M Klassen Mattress construction
US2924833A (en) * 1957-05-02 1960-02-16 Martha I Klogether Draw sheet and mattress protector
US2982976A (en) * 1959-06-23 1961-05-09 Ferolito John Protective covering for bed inserts
US3129438A (en) * 1961-10-30 1964-04-21 Hall Rex Credell Adjustable mattress and bed pan for use therewith
US6421859B1 (en) * 1999-06-03 2002-07-23 Kci Licensing, Inc. Patient support systems with layered fluid support mediums
EP1192885A1 (en) * 2000-10-02 2002-04-03 The Procter & Gamble Company Disposable moisture vapour permeable, liquid impermeable covering sheet for bedding articles containing active agents
JP2002159372A (ja) * 2000-11-22 2002-06-04 Romance Kosugi:Kk 分割式敷布団

Non-Patent Citations (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 2002, no. 10 10 October 2002 (2002-10-10) *

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