Bedding attachment devices

• US 4,829,617 A
• Filed: 05/18/1988
• Issued: 05/16/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Patrick S. Dameron
• Original Assignee: Patrick S. Dameron
• Inventors: Dameron, Patrick S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grosz, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US07/195,171
• Time in Patent Office: 363 Days
• Field of Search: 5/508, 5/496, 5/498, 24/72.5, 24/306, 24/543
• US Class Current: 5/658
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 21/022 Sheet holders; Bed cover holders
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/23 Bedclothes holders
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/2708 Combined with diverse fastener
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44752 Integral locking-means

Abstract

A first embodiment of a bedding attachment device includes a strip of hook fastening material which is attachable to a bed frame and a further strip of loop fastening material which is selectively attachable to the bedding. Garter-like fastening straps are fixedly secured to the loop strip, and these straps are attached to the bedding at selected positions. The bedding may then be stretched over the mattress until the hook and loop fastening strips are engaged. A second embodiment makes use of the hook and loop fastening straps; however, the garter-like straps are replaced by a rigid plastic clamp which may be snap fitted over the bedding.

Claims

1. A bedding attachment device adapted to attach sheetlike bedding to a bed frame, comprising:

a first strip of material comprising hook means, said strip adapted to be attached to a bed frame;

a second strip of material, adapted to be releaseably attached to said first strip of material, comprising loop means interengageable with said hook means;

flexible connecting strips connected between the second strip and a bedding holding device, said bedding holding device comprising a first semi-circular member, as viewed in plan, hingely attached to a second semi-circular member, as viewed in plan, said first semi-circular member having a curved groove formed therein, said second semi-circular member having a curved ridge formed thereon, said ridge being frictionally engageable with said groove to effect a releasable engagement of bedding between the semi-circular members.

2. The bedding attachment device of claim 1, further including a flared connector on one of the semi-circular members, and a mating aperture on the other semi-circular member.