Beds – With heating or cooling
Reexamination Certificate
2001-03-05
2003-05-27
Trettel, Michael F. (Department: 3673)
Beds
With heating or cooling
C005S284000, C005S706000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06568006
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to air mattresses and more particularly pertains to a new heated air mattress for providing a warm and soft air mattress.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of air mattresses is known in the prior art. More specifically, air mattresses heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,514,078; U.S. Pat. No. 5,643,336; U.S. Pat. No. 4,149,541; U.S. Pat. No. 4,108,146; U.S. Pat. No. 5,074,286; and U.S. Des. Pat. No. 295,349.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new heated air mattress. The inventive device includes an air mattress having a top wall, a bottom wall, a back wall, a front wall, a first side wall and a second side wall. Each of the walls of the air mattress is substantially flexible. An air valve for filling the air mattress with air is coupled to the top wall and extends into an interior of the air mattress. A tube for carrying water into the air mattress is elongated and has a first end and a second end. The tube is positioned in the air mattress. Each of the first and second ends of the tube extends outwardly through the front wall of the air mattress. The portion of the tube within the air mattress is securely attached to an inner surface of the top wall. Each of the first and second ends of the tube is fluidly coupled to a water heating and pumping device. The water heating and pumping device is adapted for heating water positioned in the tube and circulating the water through the tube to heat the air mattress.
In these respects, the heated air mattress according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing a warm and soft air mattress.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of air mattresses now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new heated air mattress construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing a warm and soft air mattress.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new heated air mattress apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the air mattresses mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new heated air mattress which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art air mattresses, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises an air mattress having a top wall, a bottom wall, a back wall, a front wall, a first side wall and a second side wall. Each of the walls of the air mattress is substantially flexible. An air valve for filling the air mattress with air is coupled to the top wall and extends into an interior of the air mattress. A tube for carrying water into the air mattress is elongated and has a first end and a second end. The tube is positioned in the air mattress. Each of the first and second ends of the tube extends outwardly through the front wall of the air mattress. The portion of the tube within the air mattress is securely attached to an inner surface of the top wall. Each of the first and second ends of the tube is fluidly coupled to a water heating and pumping device. The water heating and pumping device is adapted for heating water positioned in the tube and circulating the water through the tube to heat the air mattress.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new heated air mattress apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the air mattresses mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new heated air mattress which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art air mattresses, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new heated air mattress which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new heated air mattress which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new heated air mattress which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such heated air mattress economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new heated air mattress which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new heated air mattress for providing a warm and soft air mattress.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new heated air mattress which includes an air mattress having a top wall, a bottom wall, a back wall, a front wall, a first side wall and a second side wall. Each of the walls of the air mattress is substantially flexible. An air valve for filling the air mattress with air is coupled to the top wall and extends into an interior of the air mattress. A tube for carrying water into the air mattress is elongated and has a first end and a second end. The tube is positioned in the air mattress. Each of the first and second ends of the tube extends outwardly through the front wall of the air mattress. The portion of the tube within the air mattress is securely attached to an inner surface of the top wall. Each of t
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