TRAVEL PILLOW

• US 3,604,026 A
• Filed: 10/27/1969
• Issued: 09/14/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bernice Holmen Scheips
• Original Assignee: Bernice Holmen Scheips
• Inventors: Scheips, Bernice Holmen
• Primary Examiner(s): Gay, Bobby R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Aschenbrenner, Peter A.
• Application Number:
  US04/869,460
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• Field of Search: 5/337,338,341,344,352,355,361
• US Class Current: 297/397
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/383 Detachable or loose head- or neck-supports, e.g. horse-shoe shaped

Abstract

A foldable and spreadable pillow wherein duplicate padlike halfsections when folded and fastened together provide a pillow which is comparable in size and shape with individual headrests currently used on the backrests of automobile seats. These suitably cushioned half-sections have limited median portions of side-by-side edge portions stitched and thus hinged together. Outer marginal edges are provided with connectable snap fasteners which hold the half-sections folded. Median portions of one halfsection also have snap fasteners which permit said half-section to be manually folded and doubled upon itself and crammed and lodged in a limited holding space whenever available. Strap-Type handles are also provided.

Claims

1. A headrest-type pillow which lends itself to diversified use when travelling via an airplane, train, bus or in one'"'"''"'"'s automobile and which is compact and convenient for out-of-use placement in a briefcase, handbag or the like comprising, a pair of like relatively small companion half-sections having median portions only of adjacent inward marginal edges hingeDly connected together and adapted to spread out end-to-end in a generally common plane for such use as desired, or alternatively, folded atop each other to provide a double pillow whenever necessary or desired, each half-section being characterized by inward and outward transverse marginal edges and opposite longitudinal marginal edges, the longitudinal marginal edges of at least one of said half-sections being provided with attached male and female snap fasteners and which serve to permit said one half-section to be folded and doubled upon itself and said median portions of said longitudinal marginal edge snapped together, whereby to provide means which is adapted to be inserted and retentively jammed in a suitable limited space between edge portions of side-by-side vehicle brackets or manually rammed to stay put into an available corner between a seat and an adjacent wall surface.

2. The pillow defined in and according to claim 1, and wherein centralized portions of the respective outward transverse marginal edges are provided with quick connectable and separable male and female snap fasteners which when properly lined up with each other can be secured together to maintain said half-sections in their coacting folded relationship.

3. The pillow defined in and according to claim 1, and wherein the overall pillow with the half-sections spread out in a common plane is substantially ovate and the individual half-sections are approximately semiovate in plan, each half-section comprising a jacket made of washable cotton velveteen, said jacket being filled with foam flakes and being odorless and nonallergic.

4. A headrest-type pillow which lends itself to diversified use when travelling via an airplane, train, bus or in one'"'"''"'"'s automobile and which is compact and convenient for out-of-use placement in a briefcase, handbag or the like comprising, a pair of like relatively small companion half-sections having median portions only of adjacent inward marginal edges hingedly connected together and adapted to spread out end-to-end in a generally common plane for such use as desired, or alternatively, folded atop each other to provide a double pillow whenever necessary or desired, the centralized portions of the respective outward marginal edges being provided with quick connectable and separable snap fasteners, median portions of the opposed longitudinal marginal edges of one of said half-sections being provided with aligned coacting snap fasteners which serve to permit that half-section to be doubled upon itself and the edge portions snapped together, and strap means fashioned into and forming a handle, said strap means being operatively mounted on said pillow for carrying and handling needs.

5. The pillow defined in and according to claim 4, and wherein said strap means is fashioned into a loop, said loop being suitable and adapted to encircle a user'"'"''"'"'s wrist, whereby to facilitate convenient handling and carrying the pillow.

6. The pillow defined in and according to claim 4, and wherein said strap means comprises a single nylon strap of requisite length and proportionally narrow width, said strap being stretched across a median exterior surface of a cooperating half-section and having its respective ends permanently secured to predetermined marginal portions of said half-section cooperating in a manner to serve as a clutch-type handle.