Surgical recovery pillow

• US 10,441,487 B1
• Filed: 04/11/2018
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sleepeze LLC
• Original Assignee: Sleepeze LLC
• Inventors: Jerome-Miller, Stacey, DeMarco, Ronald Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Polito, Nicholas F
• Application Number:
  US15/950,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20190314232A1
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• Field of Search: D6601
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2009/1018 Foam pillows
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 9/10 Pillows pillow holders A47C21/00, A47C21/026; specially adapted for preventing snoring A61F5/56
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 9/1054 for lying face downwards
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/072 for the head only

Abstract

A surgical recovery pillow can include one of more cutouts formed in the pillow body, at a top surface of the pillow body, that reduce or avoid pressure around the ear, eye, cheek, and upper neck regions of a user'"'"'s face at the side of the user'"'"'s face, when the user lays with their head properly positioned over a cutout. Each cutout is non-circular, and includes a support portion that extends from the pillow body into the cutout to support the user'"'"'s head at the temple region of the user'"'"'s head.

Claims

1. A facial surgery recovery pillow, comprising:

a pillow body having an outside edge around a perimeter of the pillow body; and

a pair of cutouts formed at a top surface of the pillow body and extending from the top surface towards a bottom surface of the pillow body, the cutouts being positioned symmetrically on the top surface with respect to each other, each of the cutouts defining a proximate side and a bottom side, the proximate side and bottom side meeting at a vertex with the bottom side extending away from the proximate side towards an outside edge of the pillow body at an angle from a bottom edge of the pillow body, each of the cutouts further defining a top lobe and a side lobe with a support portion of the pillow body extending in between the top lobe and the side lobe;

wherein each of the cutouts are substantially heart-shaped being symmetric about a line between a peak of the support portion and the vertex, and wherein the line between the peak of the support portion and the vertex is at an angle of between 40 and 50 degrees with respect to an axis about which the cutouts are symmetric.

2. The facial surgery recovery pillow of claim 1, wherein the pair of cutouts are separated between their respective proximate sides by a distance of at least two inches.

3. The facial surgery recovery pillow of claim 1, wherein the pillow body is formed of a resilient foam.

4. The facial surgery recovery pillow of claim 1, wherein a distance from the respective vertex of each cutout to a lower outside side edge of the pillow body is less than a distance from the respective top lobe of each cutout to an upper outside edge of the pillow body.

5. The facial surgery recovery pillow of claim 4, wherein the distance from the respective vertex of each cutout to the lower outside edge of the pillow body is not more than two inches, and the distance from the respective top lobe of each cutout to the upper outside edge of the pillow body is more than two inches.

6. The facial surgery recovery pillow of claim 1, wherein the top and bottom surfaces of the pillow body are rectangular.

7. The facial surgery recover pillow of claim 1, further comprising a ventilation channel formed in the pillow body between at least one of the cutouts and an outer edge of the pillow body.

8. The facial surgery recovery pillow of claim 1, wherein the cutouts pass completely through the pillow body, from the top surface of the pillow body to the bottom surface of the pillow body.

9. A surgical recovery pillow for facilitating healing of a user after facial and neck surgical procedures by avoiding pressure on portions of a side of a face of the user, the surgical recovery pillow comprising:

a pillow body having an outside edge around a perimeter of the pillow body;

a pair of substantially heart shaped cutouts formed in the pillow body which are arranged symmetrically with respect to each other, each of the substantially heart-shaped cutouts;

is formed at a top surface of the pillow body and extends from the top surface towards a bottom surface of the pillow body;

defines a proximate side and a bottom side, the proximate side and bottom side meeting at a vertex with the bottom side extending away from the proximate side towards an outside edge of the pillow body at an angle from a lower outside edge of the pillow body, the proximate side being substantially parallel to a centerline between a upper outside edge of the pillow body and the lower outside edge of the pillow body, the pair of heart-shaped cutouts being symmetric about the centerline; and

defines a top lobe and a side lobe with a support portion of the pillow body extending in between the top lobe and the side lobe, and a main portion joining the top lobe and the side lobe and extending down to the vertex, the top lobe being sized and configured to correspond to an ear of the user, the side lobe being sized and configured to correspond to an eye of the user, the main portion being sized and configured to correspond to an upper neck portion of the user, and the support portion having a portion corresponding to a temple of the user, between the ear and eye of the user when the user lays with the side of the user'"'"'s face over the at least one cutout with the user'"'"'s ear positioned in the top lobe, the user'"'"'s eye positioned in the side lobe, and the user'"'"'s upper neck positioned in the main portion and wherein the bottom side of the cutout follows a line from the vertex to the side lobe away from the lower outside edge.

10. The surgical recovery pillow of claim 9, wherein the pillow body is formed of a resilient foam.

11. The surgical recovery pillow of claim 9, wherein a distance from the vertex to the lower outside side edge of the pillow body is less than a distance from the top lobe to the upper outside edge of the pillow body for each of the substantially heart-shaped cutouts.

12. The surgical recovery pillow of claim 11, wherein, for each of the substantially heart-shaped cutouts, the distance from the vertex to the lower outside edge of the pillow body is not more than two inches, and the distance from the top lobe to the upper outside edge of the pillow body is more than two inches.

13. The surgical recovery pillow of claim 9, wherein each of the substantially heart-shaped cutouts is symmetric about a line between a peak of the support portion and the vertex, and wherein the line between the peak of the support portion and the vertex is at an angle of between 40 and 50 degrees with respect to an axis from a top edge to a bottom edge of the pillow body.

14. The surgical recovery pillow of claim 9, wherein the top and bottom surfaces of the pillow body are rectangular.

15. The surgical recover pillow of claim 9, further comprising a ventilation channel formed in the pillow body between the at least one cutout and an outer edge of the pillow body.

16. The surgical recovery pillow of claim 9, wherein each of the substantially heart-shaped cutouts pass completely through the pillow body, from the top surface of the pillow body to the bottom surface of the pillow body.

17. The surgical recovery pillow of claim 9, wherein substantially heart-shaped cutouts are separated between their respective proximate sides by a distance of at least two inches.

18. A surgical recovery pillow, comprising:

a pillow body formed of a resilient foam material having a top surface and a perimeter including side edges; and

a pair of cutouts formed in the top surface of the pillow body which are positioned symmetrically at the top surface of the pillow body, each cutout having a main portion, a top lobe, and a side lobe, the top lobe configured to correspond with a user'"'"'s ear, the side lobe configured to correspond with an eye of the user, and the main portion configured to correspond with a cheek and upper neck of the user;

wherein each of the cutouts is defined in part by a respective proximate side and a respective bottom side, the proximate side of each cutout being substantially in line with a direction in which the user lays with respect to the surgical recovery pillow, and the bottom side meeting the proximate side at a vertex at a portion of the cutout closest to a bottom side edge of the pillow body, the bottom side extending away from the vertex at an angle from the bottom side edge toward a top side edge of the surgical recovery pillow to a point of the respective cutout nearest an outside edge of the surgical recovery pillow that is approximately halfway between a highest point of the top lobe toward the top outside edge of the surgical recovery pillow and the vertex; and

each of the cutouts being further defined by a support portion of the pillow body that extends into each respective cutout between the top lobe and side lobe of each respective cutout, and which is positioned to correspond with a temple of the user when the user lays on the surgical recovery pillow with a side of the user'"'"'s face one of the cutouts such that the user'"'"'s eye positioned over the side lobe, the user'"'"'s ear positioned over the top lobe, and the user'"'"'s upper neck and cheek positioned over the main portion.

19. The surgical recovery pillow of claim 18, further comprising at least one ventilation channel between at least one of the pair of cutouts to a side of the pillow body.

20. The surgical recovery pillow of claim 18, wherein each of the cutouts are substantially heart-shaped being symmetric about a line between a peak of the support portion and the vertex, and wherein the line between the peak of the support portion and the vertex is at an angle of between 40 and 50 degrees with respect to an axis about which the cutouts are symmetric.