Fire retardant box spring and mattress

• US 4,092,752 A
• Filed: 11/29/1976
• Issued: 06/06/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company (Dow, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: The Upjohn Company (Pharmacia Corp.)
• Inventors: Dougan, Thomas P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/745,690
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 5/345 R, 5/351, 5/354, 5/355, 5/361 B, 260/2.5 AJ, 297/DIG. 5
• US Class Current: 5/400
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/001 Fireproof means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 521/906 Polyurethane cellular product containing unreacted flame-retardant material

Abstract

An improved combination of box spring and mattress is provided. The mattress has a core of a particular class of flame-retarded flexible polyurethane foam and, optionally, has an outer layer of flexible polyimide foam fabricated to surround said core. The foam core, optionally with outer layer of polyimide foam, is enclosed in a flame retardant or retarded ticking (flame retarded cotton, polyvinyl chloride, fiber glass cloth, high temperature resistant polymeric fiber cloth). The box spring has a non-combustible frame and, optionally, is padded with a flame retarded flexible polyurethane foam, such as that used in the aforesaid mattress, or a flexible polyimide foam.

The box spring and mattress combination meets the requirements of present institutional fire codes and the like and represents a significantly improved product for commercial and domestic household use.

Claims

1. An improved box spring and mattress combination, said mattress being supported on said box spring wherein said mattress consists essentially of

a homogeneous core of flame retarded flexible polyurethane foam which is the product of reaction, under foam producing conditions, of

(a) a polyisocyanate mixture which contains from 5 percent to 95 percent by weight of toluene diisocyanate and from 95 percent to 5 percent by weight of polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate containing from about 40 percent to about 70 percent of methylenebis(phenyl isocyanate), the remainder of said polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanates having a functionality higher than 2.0;

(b) a polyether polyol having an equivalent weight from about 500 to about 2500 and a functionality from about 2.0 to about 4.0;

(c) from about 2 to about 20 percent by weight, based on weight of final foam, of antimony oxide;

(d) from about 1 to about 15 percent by weight, based on weight of final foam, of a polyhalogenated member selected from the class consisting of polyhalogenated aliphatic diols and polyhalogenated aromatic compounds; and

(e) from 0 to about 15 percent by weight, based on weight of final foam, of alumina trihydrate; and

(f) when the amount of alumina trihydrate is zero, a chlorinated hydrocarbon polymer in an amount such that the resultant foam contains from about 2 to about 8 percent by weight of chlorine;

said core of flame retarded polyurethane foam being enclosed in a covering of flame retardant ticking; and

said box spring comprising a non-combustible frame.

2. A box spring and mattress combination according to claim 1 wherein the covering of flame retardant ticking is fabricated from fiber glass cloth.

3. A box spring and mattress combination according to claim 1 wherein said box spring comprises a non- combustible frame which is provided on the upper surface thereof with a padding of flame retardant flexible foam of substantially the same composition as that employed in the core of said mattress.

4. A box spring and mattress combination according to claim 1 wherein said box spring comprises a non-combustible frame which is padded on the upper surface thereof with a layer of flexible polyimide foam.

5. A box spring and mattress combination according to claim 1 wherein the core of said mattress is covered by and bonded to a relatively thin layer, compared to the thickness of said core, of a flexible polyimide foam.

6. A mattress comprising in combination:

a core of flame retarded polyurethane foam which is the product of reaction, under foam producing conditions, of

(c) a polyisocyanate mixture which contains from 5 percent to 95 percent by weight of toluene diisocyanate and from 95 percent to 5 percent by weight of polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate containing from about 40 percent to about 70 percent of methylenebis(phenyl isocyanate), the remainder of said polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate having a functionality higher than 2.0;

(b) a polyether polyol having an equivalent weight from about 500 to 2500 and a functionality from about 2.0 to about 4.0;

(c) from about 2 to about 20 percent by weight, based on weight of final foam, of antimony oxide;

(d) from about 1 to about 15 percent by weight based on weight of final foam, of a polyhalogenated member selected from the class consisting of polyhalogenated aliphatic diols and polyhalogenated aromatic compounds;

(e) from 0 to about 15 percent by weight, based on weight of final foam, of alumina trihydrate; and

(f) when the amount of alumina trihydrate is zero, a chlorinated hydrocarbon polymer in an amount such that the resultant foam contains from about 2 to about 8 percent by weight of chlorine; and

a relatively thin layer of flexible polyimide foam surrounding and bonded to said core.