Waterbed rail cap

• US 4,710,992 A
• Filed: 05/01/1987
• Issued: 12/08/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bobby R. Falwell, Orval H. Wooley
• Original Assignee: Bobby R. Falwell, Orval H. Wooley
• Inventors: Falwell, Bobby R., Wooley, Orval H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grosz, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US07/045,447
• Time in Patent Office: 221 Days
• Field of Search: 5/508, 5/451, 5/424, 5/93 R, 248/345.1, 24/545
• US Class Current: 5/663
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 27/085 of liquid type, e.g. filled with water or gel
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44769 Opposed engaging faces on gripping member formed from single piece of resilient material

Abstract

A padded bedrail cap can be folded and flattened during installation. Spring clips are provided to form a channel within the cap during installation. The bedrail cap is friction fit over the bedrail.

Claims

1. A rail cap for use on bedrails comprising:

a. a piece of foam or similarly flexible compressible padded material adapted to match and approximately cover the length and uppermost surfaces of a bedrail;

b. a cover mounted along the top surface of said foam material which cover is folded around the peripheral edges and secured to the lower surface of said foam material;

c. cylinders formed by and within the lengthwise outermost portions of said cover, said cylinders adapted for receiving a rigid structural member;

d. rigid structural members inserted within said cylinders leaving a gap in the center of each such cylinder such that said foam material and cover can be folded at their midpoint; and

e. a plurality of spaced apart spring clip means for forming said foam material and cover into a channel which slidably friction fits over said bedrail.

2. The rail cap of claim 1 where said spring clip means removably engages said rigid structural members though slots in said cylinders of said cover.

3. The rail cap of claim 1 where said spring clip means are adapted to form said channel such that when slidably installed on said bedrail, contact is made only at the top horizontal bedrail surface and through said structural rigid members.