US20080010753A1 - Mattress With Independent and Detachable Parts - Google Patents

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US20080010753A1
US20080010753A1 US10/563,812 US56381205A US2008010753A1 US 20080010753 A1 US20080010753 A1 US 20080010753A1 US 56381205 A US56381205 A US 56381205A US 2008010753 A1 US2008010753 A1 US 2008010753A1
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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
    • A47C27/00—Spring, stuffed or fluid mattresses or cushions specially adapted for chairs, beds or sofas
    • A47C27/14—Spring, stuffed or fluid mattresses or cushions specially adapted for chairs, beds or sofas with foamed material inlays
    • A47C27/142—Spring, stuffed or fluid mattresses or cushions specially adapted for chairs, beds or sofas with foamed material inlays with projections, depressions or cavities
    • A47C27/146—Spring, stuffed or fluid mattresses or cushions specially adapted for chairs, beds or sofas with foamed material inlays with projections, depressions or cavities on the outside surface of the mattress or cushion
    • 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
    • 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
    • A47C27/14—Spring, stuffed or fluid mattresses or cushions specially adapted for chairs, beds or sofas with foamed material inlays
    • A47C27/148—Spring, stuffed or fluid mattresses or cushions specially adapted for chairs, beds or sofas with foamed material inlays of different resilience
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C31/00—Details or accessories for chairs, beds, or the like, not provided for in other groups of this subclass, e.g. upholstery fasteners, mattress protectors, stretching devices for mattress nets
    • A47C31/12—Means, e.g. measuring means for adapting chairs, beds or mattresses to the shape or weight of persons
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G7/00—Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons
    • A61G7/05—Parts, details or accessories of beds
    • A61G7/057—Arrangements for preventing bed-sores or for supporting patients with burns, e.g. mattresses specially adapted therefor
    • A61G7/05715—Arrangements for preventing bed-sores or for supporting patients with burns, e.g. mattresses specially adapted therefor with modular blocks, or inserts, with layers of different material

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  • This invention makes reference to a new type of mattress, which consists of a base, some joining means and a plurality of independent and elastic parts that are detachable and interchangeable to support the body.
  • This invention consists of a mattress that is composed of a base and a variety of independent parts which are detachable from the base to support the body.
  • the base is joined to such independent and detachable parts by means of detachable joints, specifically adherent fabric of a Velcro type or similar, that allow such independent parts to be taken out, integrated or exchanged with different or similar ones and consequently substituted by new parts when these are damaged or in very bad condition.
  • the adherent fabric which is integrated to the base as a part of a joining means like Velcro or similar can cover the entire upper surface or can partially cover it when used as continuous or broken strips, although it should be noted that, for the purpose of the invention, such strips need to be placed in a quantity enough to be able to place the independent and detachable parts, whatever their shape or dimension, in any part of said upper surface of such base.
  • the independent and detachable parts are provided with a corresponding and complimentary fabric on the bottom part to complete the joining means of Velcro type or similar.
  • this mattress is especially suitable for people during hospital treatment, particularly, for people that have suffered any type of fracture and/or injury that requires the patient to remain in bed or in the same position. Since the parts mentioned are detachable, the surface of the mattress under the fractured zone or injury can be endowed of independent parts and of any convenient shapes and reduced dimensions than the rest of the independent parts of the mattress with the sole purpose of not forcing the affected part of the patients body and therefore permitting the pressure of the mattress to be correct and allowing the recovery of the affected part. This includes, of course, the case in which an area of the mattress can have no pieces at all.
  • the base of the mattress can have any kind of shape and be fabricated of any kind of material, elastic or semi-rigid and its dimensions can be variable according to its use and finality.
  • An appropriate use of these variables allows to adapt the setting-up of this mattress to fit adult people or even children, and by extension, can be applicable to the manufacturing of cushions, seats and backing including those of vehicles, armrests, footrests, pillows, etc.
  • the independent parts can be obtained by lengthways and transversely cuts of a traditional mattress or by means of an independent manufacture for each type of part; its form can be prismatic, cylindrical, conical or pyramidal trunk or any other type that can deform elastically when submitted to a perpendicular or slightly inclined load regarding the plan of the mattress base; its section can be square, circular, elliptical, polygonal or of any other form; its height can vary according to the needs of the user or patient; the material composition of the parts will preferably be made out of natural or synthetic latex, even though any other adequate and elastic material can be used for the mattresses. Due to the simplicity of the mattresses design and the features of its independent and detachable parts, these can be assembled over the same base of independent parts of different shapes, sections, heights and materials.
  • This type of mattress which is composed of independent parts favours the ventilation of the patient's body by circulating air, avoiding the multiple inconveniences of the classic mattresses. It also favours the cellular regeneration due to the massaging provided by the plurality of the independent parts. It also avoids the formation of wounds produced by the friction between the skin and a hard surface.
  • the independent parts are separated by variable separations that can be controlled as desired without any limitation in dimension of such separations. This is due to being the main objective of the invention to provide independent and detachable parts so they can be easily joined or extracted from the base at any given place. Such separations are chosen according to the needs of the user or the injury that would need to be treated; if necessary, some of the independent parts can be removed, for example, with certain wounds so they won't be in direct contact with the mattress.
  • All of the parts of the mattress are capable, as mentioned before, of being manufactured and commercialised at different times and places; they are all interchangeable and any of them can be substituted or cleaned if they are deteriorated or dirty.
  • the mattress may or may not be covered.
  • the cover can be provided of a lateral latch in all or in a few of the edges, such as a zipper, a pressure latch or similar, that would allow the easy access to its interior in order to extract, insert, interchange or alter the disposition of one or various of the independent and interchangeable parts.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a mattress in which all of the areas of the independent parts are identical and prismatic.
  • FIG. 2A is a partial side elevational view of a mattress where the invention is provided with identical pyramidal trunk parts that show the separation between one another.
  • FIGS. 2B y 2 C are elevational views of two subsets of independent parts that are different in shape and dimension, suitable for placement on the edge of the mattress of a baby's crib that would avoid, with the baby's movement, injury by placing it's head between the bars of the crib.
  • FIG. 2D is a side elevational view of the mattress for a baby's crib, where it shows the disposition of the independent parts and some subsets which have been showed in FIGS. 2B y 2 C.
  • FIG. 3A is a side elevational view of a mattress, a cushion, a seat a backrest, etc., in form of an arch, allowing the formed hollowness to adapt to any part of the body.
  • FIG. 3B is an enlarged detail of FIG. 3A that allows us to observe the adaptability of the independent parts ( 4 ) due to the separation and shape of such parts.
  • FIG. 4A is a side elevational view of a mattress, a cushion, a seat a backrest, etc., in form of an arch, allowing the formed convexity to easily adapt to any surrounding area.
  • FIG. 4B is an enlarged detail of FIG. 4A that allows us to observe the adaptability of the independent parts ( 4 ) with different surrounding areas.
  • FIG. 5 is an elevational view of a mattress of the invention where we can observe the different distortion of the independent parts ( 4 ) that are in contact with the body of the person lying down.
  • a description of a preferred embodiment of the mattress of the invention is hereinafter disclosed, out of the many possible embodiments pursuant to the contents of the previous description, that also includes not only mattresses but cushions, seats, and backrests including those of vehicles, armrests, footrests, pillows and other elements for the everyday rest of adult and children's bodies.
  • the mattress ( 1 ) of the invention shows a base ( 3 ) of a parallelepiped shape, the flat upper side of which adheres by conventional known in the art, methods, to a continuous sheet or separate strips of auto adherent fabric of a Velcro type or similar, which will completely cover the top surface of the base ( 3 ).
  • the complimentary sheet of the Velcro type or similar joining measure will adhere a plurality of independent parts ( 4 ), previously cut according to the size of each independent part ( 4 ).
  • the independent parts ( 4 ) are equal in dimension and prismatic shape.
  • the independent parts ( 4 ), each provided with said complimentary sheet of Velcro type or similar joining means, are arranged over the base ( 3 ) provided with a continuous sheet or separate strips of auto adherent fabric ( 2 ) of a Velcro type or similar in a uniformed distribution according to a reticule set of perpendicular columns and rows leaving a small and constant separation between the adjacent independent parts ( 4 ).
  • the mattress may or may not be covered ( 1 ).
  • the cover will be provided of lateral latches in all or some of the sides, such as zippers, pressure latches or other types.

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