Bed for snorers

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5109, 128 33, A61G 704

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050420976

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to a bed having an influence on snoring, said bed having a mattress base, which is designed to be tiltable at least around a longitudinal axis. The mattress base has essentially plane resting surface and is joined to a preferably electro-motorized tilting drive which is connected by means of a control to a power supply.
In the past many attempts were made, in various ways, to prevent the snoring of sleeping people since the sound caused thereby significantly disturbs any person sleeping in the same room where from time to time snoring can become so loud that even the sleeping person himself wakes up. If one wakes up the snorer, snoring stops, but his sleep has been interrupted. However, after going back to sleep, snoring starts again, often shortly afterwards. In most cases it has been realised that the snoring sounds do not occur if and as long as the person concerned rests on a side position. In order to force such side position, a device is known from German Auslegeschrift (application published after examination) 11 98 005 which consists of a padded board having the same length as the upper part of the body and which is hinged along the longitudinal axis. The board is equipped with a locking device which can lock the part that can be lifted up at an angle of between 60.degree. and 90.degree. . The device is equipped at both ends with loops through which one leg and one arm are put through so that the sleeping person is forced into the side position by the part that is lifted up. Irrespective of the non-yielding body support, restful sleep is not possible with such a device since the sleeping person is pinned in a side position and is not able to turn around. Due to the arm loop, no free movement, not even e.g. the support of the head by an arm, is possible in the side position. Another disadvantage of the known device is that due to the loop placed around the thigh and the shoulder, blood circulation can be restricted.
From U.S. Pat. No. 3,089,130 a device for mounting on a bed is known in which the head of the sleeper is put on a head support which can be tilted and is equipped with a vibrator. Sounds of snoring are picked up by a microphone and are fed as a control signal to a control which then activates the vibrator. By means of the vibrator the head of the sleeping person is shaken up and down so that the latter wakes up and snoring ceases. Such a device does indeed stop the snoring very effectively, but, to a large extent, is unhealthy since the sleep of the snorer is interrupted over and over again. From German Auslegeschrift 11 51 347 a similar device is known which, however, causes the head of the sleeping person, resting on a horizontally movable support, to be moved back and forth. Switching on the device again takes place by means of a microphone. With this device, only the head is turned to the side, regardless of the position of rest of the body, by a horizontal conveyor belt which can be moved back and forth or by a horizontal board which can be slid back and forth so that because of the non-restricted forces, there is a risk of damage to the cervical vertebrae. The tilting of the head to the side, forced on by the device and which is especially unnatural for the sleeping position, inevitably has to lead to interruption of sleep so that. also here, in addition to the risk of damages to the cervical vertebrae, undisturbed sleep cannot be ensured either.
International Application WO 86/03663 describes a mattress which is longitudinally divided into three parts of which the middle one is supported on a tilting board by means of springs. In this case the supine position can only be assumed if the sleeper lies on the middle section exactly above the tilting roll. For each small move of the body sideways with respect to the tilting section support, the tilting board tilts to the side so that the middle section and the adjacent side section, also supported by springs, adopt in cross-section, a V-shaped orientation. If the sleeping person, while

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