Headboard apparatus for holding a decorative cover

• US 10,485,351 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2016
• Issued: 11/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roderick William Phillips
• Original Assignee: Roderick William Phillips
• Inventors: Phillips, Roderick William
• Primary Examiner(s): Safavi, Michael
• Application Number:
  US15/276,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20170007031A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 1/2011 for crawling insects
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 25/00 Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators, characterised by their forms, or by their non-active ingredients or by their methods of application , e.g. seed treatment or sequential application; Substances for reducing the noxious effect of the active ingredients to organisms other than pests
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 59/00 Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing elements or inorganic compounds
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 61/00 Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing substances of unknown or undetermined composition, e.g. substances characterised only by the mode of action
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 65/20 Fabaceae or Leguminosae [Pea or Legume family], e.g. pea, lentil, soybean, clover, acacia, honey locust, derris or millettia
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 13/08 Table tops; Rims therefor not restricted to table tops A47B95/04
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 19/005 dismountable
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 19/021 Bedstead frames
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 19/022 Head or foot boards
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/007 Anti-mite, anti-allergen or anti-bacterial means
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 12/54 Fittings for bedsteads or the like

Abstract

An apparatus for holding a decorative cover. The apparatus includes a body having front and rear opposite sides, the front side of the body having a front surface having a perimeter, the rear side of the body having a rear surface, and the body having an outwardly facing lateral surface between the front and rear surfaces; and a first connector on the body, the first connector detachably connectable, continuously adjacent at least a portion of the perimeter of the front surface, to a second connector, complementary to the first connector, on the decorative cover. A furniture apparatus includes at least one substantially thermoplastic body and one or both of diatomaceous earth and a PA1b-related peptide incorporated in one or more of the at least one body.

Claims

1. A headboard apparatus for holding a decorative cover, the apparatus comprising:

a body having front and rear opposite sides, the front side of the body having a front surface having a perimeter, the rear side of the body having a rear surface, and the body having an outwardly facing lateral surface between the front and rear surfaces; and

a first connector on the body, the first connector detachably connectable, continuously adjacent at least a portion of the perimeter of the front surface, to a second connector, complementary to the first connector, on the decorative cover;

wherein the body defines a first projection having the lateral surface and an inward-facing portion of the front surface;

wherein at least a portion of the lateral surface is positioned to contact at least a portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of an adjacent similar apparatus such that the adjacent similar apparatus is stackable against the rear side of the body when the at least the portion of the lateral surface contacts the at least the portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of the adjacent similar apparatus;

wherein the body is substantially thermoplastic; and

wherein the body comprises carbon plastic.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a PA1b-related peptide incorporated in the body.

11. A headboard apparatus of claim 1 for holding a decorative cover, the apparatus comprising:

a body having front and rear opposite sides, the front side of the body having a front surface having a perimeter, the rear side of the body having a rear surface, and the body having an outwardly facing lateral surface between the front and rear surfaces; and

a first connector on the body, the first connector detachably connectable, continuously adjacent at least a portion of the perimeter of the front surface, to a second connector, complementary to the first connector, on the decorative cover;

wherein the body defines a first projection having the lateral surface and an inward-facing portion of the front surface;

wherein at least a portion of the lateral surface is positioned to contact at least a portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of an adjacent similar apparatus such that the adjacent similar apparatus is stackable against the rear side of the body when the at least the portion of the lateral surface contacts the at least the portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of the adjacent similar apparatus; and

wherein the first connector comprises a hook side or a loop side of a hook-and-loop connector.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the first connector extends adjacent at least a majority of the perimeter of the front surface.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the first connector extends adjacent substantially the entire perimeter of the front surface.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 wherein the first connector is on the lateral surface.

3. A headboard apparatus for holding a decorative cover, the apparatus comprising:

a body having front and rear opposite sides, the front side of the body having a front surface having a perimeter, the rear side of the body having a rear surface, and the body having an outwardly facing lateral surface between the front and rear surfaces; and

a first connector on the body, the first connector detachably connectable, continuously adjacent at least a portion of the perimeter of the front surface, to a second connector, complementary to the first connector, on the decorative cover;

wherein the body defines a first projection having the lateral surface and an inward-facing portion of the front surface;

wherein at least a portion of the lateral surface is positioned to contact at least a portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of an adjacent similar apparatus such that the adjacent similar apparatus is stackable against the rear side of the body when the at least the portion of the lateral surface contacts the at least the portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of the adjacent similar apparatus;

wherein the body is substantially thermoplastic; and

wherein the body comprises diatomaceous earth incorporated in the body.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the body comprises carbon plastic.

5. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the diatomaceous earth is about 30% by weight of the body.

6. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the diatomaceous earth has a median particle diameter of about 15 microns.

7. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the diatomaceous earth has a median particle diameter of more than about 14 microns.

8. The apparatus of claim 3 further comprising a PA1b-related peptide incorporated in the body.

9. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the first connector extends adjacent at least a majority of the perimeter of the front surface.

10. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the first connector extends adjacent substantially the entire perimeter of the front surface.

15. A headboard apparatus further for holding a decorative cover, the apparatus comprising:

a body having front and rear opposite sides, the front side of the body having a front surface having a perimeter, the rear side of the body having a rear surface, and the body having an outwardly facing lateral surface between the front and rear surfaces;

a first connector on the body, the first connector detachably connectable, continuously adjacent at least a portion of the perimeter of the front surface, to a second connector, complementary to the first connector, on the decorative cover; and

a third connector on the rear side of the apparatus for mounting the rear side of the apparatus on a wall separate from the apparatus and separate from the decorative cover;

wherein the body defines a first projection having the lateral surface and an inward-facing portion of the front surface; and

wherein at least a portion of the lateral surface is positioned to contact at least a portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of an adjacent similar apparatus such that the adjacent similar apparatus is stackable against the rear side of the body when the at least the portion of the lateral surface contacts the at least the portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of the adjacent similar apparatus.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the first connector is on the lateral surface.

17. A headboard apparatus for holding a decorative cover, the apparatus comprising:

a body having front and rear opposite sides, the front side of the body having a front surface having a perimeter, the rear side of the body having a rear surface, and the body having an outwardly facing lateral surface between the front and rear surfaces; and

a first connector on the body, the first connector detachably connectable, continuously adjacent at least a portion of the perimeter of the front surface, to a second connector, complementary to the first connector, on the decorative cover;

wherein;

the body defines a first projection having the lateral surface and an inward-facing portion of the front surface;

at least a portion of the lateral surface is positioned to contact at least a portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of an adjacent similar apparatus such that the adjacent similar apparatus is stackable against the rear side of the body when the at least the portion of the lateral surface contacts the at least the portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of the adjacent similar apparatus;

the front surface defines a recess for receiving padding between the body and the decorative cover;

the front surface comprises a generally flat planar portion and the inward-facing portion between the generally flat planar portion and the lateral surface of the body; and

the generally flat planar portion of the front surface and the inward-facing portion of the front surface define the recess.

18. A headboard apparatus for holding a decorative cover, the apparatus comprising:

a body having front and rear opposite sides, the front side of the body having a front surface having a perimeter, the rear side of the body having a rear surface, and the body having an outwardly facing lateral surface between the front and rear surfaces;

a first connector on the body, the first connector detachably connectable, continuously adjacent at least a portion of the perimeter of the front surface, to a second connector, complementary to the first connector, on the decorative cover;

a bed frame connector for connecting the body to a bed frame, wherein the bed frame connector comprises at least one receptacle defined by the body for receiving at least one respective support attachable to the bed frame; and

the at least one support receivable in the respective at least one receptacle and attachable to the bed frame;

wherein the body defines a first projection having the lateral surface and an inward-facing portion of the front surface; and

wherein at least a portion of the lateral surface is positioned to contact at least a portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of an adjacent similar apparatus such that the adjacent similar apparatus is stackable against the rear side of the body when the at least the portion of the lateral surface contacts the at least the portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of the adjacent similar apparatus.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the first connector is on the lateral surface.

20. A kit comprising:

a headboard apparatus for holding a decorative cover, the apparatus comprising;

a body having front and rear opposite sides, the front side of the body having a front surface having a perimeter, the rear side of the body having a rear surface, and the body having an outwardly facing lateral surface between the front and rear surfaces; and

a first connector on the body, the first connector detachably connectable, continuously adjacent at least a portion of the perimeter of the front surface, to a second connector, complementary to the first connector, on the decorative cover;

wherein the body defines a first projection having the lateral surface and an inward-facing portion of the front surface; and

wherein at least a portion of the lateral surface is positioned to contact at least a portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of an adjacent similar apparatus such that the adjacent similar apparatus is stackable against the rear side of the body when the at least the portion of the lateral surface contacts the at least the portion of the inward-facing portion of the front surface of the adjacent similar apparatus; and

the decorative cover, wherein when the first connector is connected to the second connector, the decorative cover covers at least a portion of the front surface of the body surrounded by the perimeter of the front surface of the body.

21. The kit of claim 20 further comprising padding, wherein the front surface defines a recess for receiving the padding between the body and the decorative cover.