Pillow kit

• US 4,916,765 A
• Filed: 07/17/1989
• Issued: 04/17/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Florifoam Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Florifoam Incorporated
• Inventors: Castronovo, Joseph A. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trettel, Michael F.
• Application Number:
  US07/380,383
• Time in Patent Office: 274 Days
• Field of Search: 5/431, 5/432, 5/434-437, 5/440, 5/441, 5/446, 5/447, 5/462
• US Class Current: 5/640
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2009/1018 Foam pillows
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 9/1081 comprising a neck support, e.g. a neck roll

Abstract

A pillow kit including a compressible and resilient cushion body have a recess therein extending across its complete width and a narrow opening extending into the recess from the outside of the cushion body, and a plurality of compressible and resilient inserts that are snugly receivable one at a time in that recess. The inserts have different degrees of stiffness.

Claims

1. A pillow kit comprising:

a compressible and resilient body having a top and a bottom, a recess therein extending across the width of said body, and a narrow opening extending from the outside of said body into said recess along substantially the complete extent of said recess across the width of said body;

a set of compressible and resilient inserts shaped and dimensioned for snug reception one at a time in said recess, each of said inserts having a predetermined compressibility different from every other insert in said set;

said cushion body having a trough in said top;

and a compressible and resilient top piece substantially filling said trough and removably received therein.

2. A pillow kit according to claim 1 wherein:

said cushion body has a rounded front lobe thereon in front of said trough and a rounded rear lobe behind said trough, each of said lobes having a succession of closely spaced, outwardly protruding, rounded ridges, thereon;

and said top piece has a series of closely spaced, upwardly protruding, rounded ridges on the top in succession between said front and rear lobes.

3. A pillow kit according to claim 2 wherein:

said recess in said cushion body is in said front lobe;

said rear lobe has a recess therein extending across the width of said cushion body and shaped and dimensioned to snugly receive said inserts one at a time;

and said cushion body has a narrow opening therein extending from the outside of said body into said recess in said rear lobe across substantially the complete extent of said recess in the rear lobe across the width of said body.

4. A pillow kit comprising:

a compressible and resilient cushion body having a top and a bottom, a recess therein extending across the width of said body, and a narrow opening extending from the outside of said body into said recess along substantially the complete extent of said recess across the width of said body;

a set of compressible and resilient inserts shaped and dimensioned for snug reception one at a time in said recess, each of said inserts having a predetermined compressibility different from every other insert in said set;

said cushion body having a trough in said top, a rounded front lobe in front of said trough, and a rounded rear lobe behind said trough;

said recess in said cushion body being in said front lobe;

said rear lobe having a recess therein extending across the width of said cushion body and shaped and dimensioned to snugly receive said inserts one at a time;

said cushion body having a narrow opening therein extending from the outside of said body into said recess in said rear lobe across substantially the complete extent of said recess in the rear lobe across the width of said body;

and a compressible and resilient top piece substantially filling said trough and removably received therein.

5. A pillow kit comprising:

a compressible and resilient cushion body having a top and a bottom, a back edge, a rounded front lobe with a recess therein extending across the width of said body, and a narrow opening extending from the outside of said body into said recess along substantially the complete extent of said recess across the width of said body;

a set of compressible and resilient inserts shaped and dimensioned for snug reception one at a time in said recess, each of said inserts having a predetermined compressibility different from every other insert in said set;

and a compressible and resilient top piece adhesively bonded to said top of said cushion body behind said front lobe, said top piece having a plurality of upwardly projecting rounded protrusions on the top;

said top piece extending across the top of said cushion body from said front lobe to said back edge of the cushion body.

6. A pillow kit comprising:

a compressible and resilient cushion body having a top and a bottom, a recess therein extending across the width of said body, and a narrow opening extending from the outside of said body into said recess along substantially the complete extent of said recess across the width of said body;

a set of compressible and resilient inserts shaped and dimensioned for snug reception one at a time in said recess, each of said inserts having a predetermined compressibility different from every other insert in said set,

said cushion body having;

a bottom segment below said recess;

a top segment above said recess;

a front wall projecting convexly in front of said recess between said bottom and top segments;

a lower rear segment extending up from said bottom segment behind said recess to the bottom of said narrow opening in the cushion body;

and an upper rear segment extending down from said top segment behind said recess to the top of said narrow opening in the cushion body.

7. A pillow kit according to claim 6 wherein:

said recess in the pillow body is substantially oval in vertical cross-section.