COMFORT SLEEPER

• US 20110277243A1
• Filed: 05/03/2011
• Published: 11/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jennifer Morales, Nancy Miceli, Phillip Crompton, Walt Crompton
• Original Assignee: Jennifer Morales, Nancy Miceli, Phillip Crompton, Walt Crompton
• Inventors: CROMPTON, PHILLIP, MICELI, NANCY, MORALES, JENNIFER, CROMPTON, WALT
• Application Number:
  US13/099,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20110277243A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 5/632
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 20/026 Supports for lying in a prone position A47C20/025 takes precedence

Abstract

An upper body support device with a top surface, a bottom surface, a sidewall, a central axis, and an outer edge. The support device further contains a first support area, a second support area, and twin third support areas. The second support area includes a cross element. A bridge area links the first support area and the second support area along the central axis. A width of the first support area and a width of the second support area are substantially greater than the width of the bridge area. There are two extensions emanating from the cross element, leading to a third support area, to lift the lower torso at the anterior superior iliac spine protrusions.

Claims

1. An upper body support device, comprising:

a shaped layer of a soft, spongy material having a substantially contiguous top support surface, a substantially contiguous bottom surface, a convex sidewall joining said top and bottom surfaces and a central axis, and wherein said upper body support device is substantially minor symmetric about a plane through said central axis; and

wherein said shaped layer comprises;

a substantially symmetrical, upper chest support region situated at a top end of said upper body support device and having a mid chest support area recessed with respect to a first corner support region located in a vicinity of a left end of the upper chest support and a second corner support region located in a vicinity of a right end of the upper chest support;

a substantially symmetric, lower rib support region extending laterally to the left and right beyond the corresponding ends of said upper chest support; and

connected to said upper chest support by a sternum bone sport region, oriented along the central axis and shaped so as to form two breast cutouts on either side of said sternum bone support region; and

two hip support extensions located in a vicinity of a bottom of said upper body support device and wherein said hip support extensions are mirrors of each other about a plane along the central axis and are separated by an abdominal recess region and joined to said lower rib support region in a vicinity of the left and right outer regions of said lower rib support region.

2. The body support device of claim 1, wherein said hip support extensions contain a wide area and a narrow area, said narrow area connecting said hip support extensions to said lower rib support region.

3. The body support device of claim 1 wherein said substantially contiguous bottom surface substantially identical in shape to said top support surface.

4. The body support device of claim 3, further comprising an inner edge, said inner edge running along an inner side of said extensions, and said inner edge running along a rear facet of said lower rib support region.

5. The body support device of claim 4, wherein said inner edge is beveled.

6. The body support device of claim 1, further comprising a recess, said recess disposed in a frontal portion of said upper chest support.

7. The body support device of claim 1, further comprising a lower recessed area, said lower recessed area framed by said hip support extensions and said lower rib support region.

8. The body support device of claim 1, wherein said upper chest support is narrower than said lower rib support region.

9. The body support device of claim 4, wherein said outer edge is elliptical.

10. A body support device comprising:

a top surface, a bottom surface, a sidewall, a central axis, and an outer edge;

a first support area;

a second support area, said second support area having a cross element;

a bridge area, said bridge area linking said first support area and said second support area along said central axis;

a width of said first support area and said second support area substantially greater than the width of said bridge area;

at least one extension emanating from said cross element, said at least one extension running parallel to said central axis; and

a lower recessed area, said lower recessed area framed by said extension and said cross member.

11. The body support device of claim 10, further comprising a recess, said recess disposed in a frontal portion of said first support area.

12. The body support device of claim 10, further comprising at least two extensions, said extensions issuing from distal ends of said cross element and running substantially opposite each other.

13. The body support device of claim 10, wherein said extension contains a third support area and a narrow area.

14. The body support device of claim 13, further comprising an inner edge, said inner edge running along an inner side of said extension, and said inner edge running along a rear facet of said cross element.

15. The body support device of claim 14, wherein said inner edge is beveled.

16. The body support device of claim 10, wherein said first support area is narrower than said second support area.

17. The body support device of claim 10, wherein said first support area, said second support area and said bridge area form side cutouts.