Removable pillow top for mattress

• US 4,955,095 A
• Filed: 03/03/1989
• Issued: 09/11/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: IBC Group Limited (Informa PLC)
• Original Assignee: International Bedding Corporation
• Inventors: Gerrick, Jack M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trettel, Michael F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Saether, Flemming
• Application Number:
  US07/318,650
• Time in Patent Office: 557 Days
• Field of Search: 5/448, 5/462, 5/470, 5/471, 5/474, 5/481, 5/446, 5/402
• US Class Current: 5/691
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/105 for mattresses
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 5/922 with hook and loop type fastener

Abstract

A removable pillow top for use as the top member of a bed protects the inner spring bed mattress. The pillow top has a cover, a support member, and a cushion. The cover has top and bottom walls and side walls coupled together to form an interior space for receiving the support member and the cushion. The support member is made of foam and has a bottom wall and side walls forming a shallow cavity for receiving the cushion. The cover has a closable opening for allowing insertion and removal of the support member and the cushion. The bottom wall of the cover has fasteners for removable coupling with fasteners on the top surface of the inner spring mattress. If soiled, the pillow top is removed from the protected inner spring mattress and cleaned. To clean the pillow top, the support member and cushion can be removed for cleaning and replaced.

Claims

1. A pillow top device for use with a bed mattress, comprising:

(a) a cover having first and second walls positioned adjacent to each other so as to be generally parallel, said first and second walls having edges which are coupled together so as to form an interior space between said first and second walls, said cover having an opening that allows access from said interior space from the exterior of said cover, said cover having means for opening and closing said opening;

(b) cushion means for providing a cushion, said cushion means being, locatable in said interior space via said opening, wherein said closure means allows the removal of said cushion means;

(c) support means for providing support of said cover and said cushion means, said support means having a bottom wall and side walls coupled to the edges of said bottom wall, said side walls extending transversely from said bottom wall so as to form a shallow cavity, said cushion means being received by said shallow cavity, said support means being locatable in said cover interior space via said opening such that said bottom wall is interposed between said cushion means and one of said walls of said cover and such that said cushion means is surrounded by said support member side walls;

(d) fastener means adapted for removably fastening said cover to a bed mattress, said fastener means being on the exterior of said second wall.

2. The pillow top device of claim 1 wherein said bottom and side walls of said support means are made of a flexible and resilient polyurethane foam.

3. The pillow top device of claim 2 wherein said cushion means comprises convoluted polyurethane foam which is flexible and resilient.

4. The pillow top device of claim 2 wherein said cushion means comprises lamb'"'"'s wool.

5. The pillow top device of claim 1 wherein said first wall of said cover comprises quilted filling material.

6. The pillow top device of claim 2 wherein said fastener means comprises hook and loop fasteners.

7. A pillow top device for use with a bed mattress, comprising:

(a) a cover having first and second walls adapted to be positioned adjacent to each other so as to be generally parallel with each other, said cover having side walls, said side walls having edges that are coupled to the edges of said first and second walls so as to form an interior space between said first, second and side walls, said cover having an opening for allowing access to said interior space from the exterior of said cover, said cover having means for opening and closing said opening;

(b) support means for supporting said cover having a bottom wall and side walls coupled to the edges of said bottom wall, said support means side walls extending transversely from said bottom wall so as to form a receptacle having an opening defined by said side walls, said support means being adapted to be located in said cover interior cavity such that said bottom wall is generally parallel to said cover first and second walls;

(c) cushion means for providing a cushion, said cushion being separate from said support means and removably receivable by said support means receptacle by way of said opening of said support means receptacle, said support means and said cushion means being adapted to be removably located in said interior space via said opening in said cover side walls, wherein said means for opening and closing said opening of said cover allows the removal of said support means and said cushion means;

(d) fastener means adapted for removably fastening said cover to a bed mattress, said fastener means being on the exterior of said second wall.

8. The pillow top device of claim 7, wherein:

said fastener means on the exterior of said second wall comprises a plurality of separate spaced apart fasteners.

9. The pillow top device of claim 7, wherein:

said bottom wall and said side walls of said support means are formed of a foam material.

10. The pillow top device of claim 9, wherein:

said side walls of said support means are formed of a stiffer foam material than that of said bottom wall.

11. A bed, comprising:

(a) a cover having first and second walls adapted to be positioned adjacent to each other so as to be generally parallel, said first and second walls having edges which are coupled together so as to form an interior space between said first and second walls, said cover having an opening that allows access to said interior space from the exterior of said cover, said cover having means for opening and closing said opening;

(b) cushion means for providing a cushion, said cushion means being adapted to be removably located in said interior space via said opening, wherein said means for opening and closing said opening allows the removal of said cushion means;

(c) support means for providing support of said cover and said cushion means, said support means having a bottom wall and side walls coupled to the edges of bottom wall, said side walls extending transversely from said bottom wall so as to from a shallow cavity having an opening defined by said side walls, said cushion means being separate from said support means and removably receivable by said shallow cavity by way of said opening of said cavity of said support means, said support means being adapted to be located in said cover interior space such that said bottom wall is interposable between said cushion means and said cover second wall and such that said cushion means is surrounded by said support member side walls;

(d) a bed mattress having a top surface, said cover having approximately the same areal dimensions as the bed mattress top surface;

(e) fastener means for removably fastening said cover second wall to said bed mattress top surface.

12. The bed of claim 11 wherein said fastener means comprises hook and loop fasteners.

13. The bed of claim 11 wherein said bed mattress has a bottom surface, said bottom surface having alternate fastener means for removably fastening said cover second wall to said bed mattress bottom surface, wherein said alternate fastener means allows said bed mattress to be turned so that said bottom surface is on top and said top surface is on the bottom.

14. The bed of claim 11, wherein:

said bottom wall and said side walls of said support means are formed of a foam material.

15. The bed of claim 14, wherein:

said side walls of said support means are formed of a stiffer foam material than that of said bottom wall.