Beds – Mattress – Nonplanar top surface
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-29
2001-01-16
Grosz, Alexander (Department: 3628)
Beds
Mattress
Nonplanar top surface
C005S495000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06173465
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND
Mattress used for sleeping have been made in more or less the same shape and in several sizes for many years. Functions like softness, firmness, longevity, and comfort have been touted in advertisements. Different materials like feathers, foam, coil springs, water and air have been invented and produced. All these past achievements have been directed at making mattresses more sleepable or functional. Prior art is found in Class 5, Subclasses 421, 690, 596, 192, etc. They all overlook the fact that bedmates would sometimes like to hug for extended periods, either head to head or head to toe, without having their arms fall asleep or get sore from the crushing weight of their bed partner. This invention, the HUGGING MATTRESS is intended to permit extended hugging of a person's bedpartner.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention includes the addition of two holes to any ordinary mattress design commonly used with a bed. The holes protrude entirely through the mattress, one being located in the region of a sleeper's shoulder and the other symmetrically placed on the opposite end of the mattress. The holes are preferably to be rectangular or oval 18 inches by 8 inches more or less and are for the purpose of allowing a person to wrap his lower arm around, or in other words to hug or embrace, his bed partner for extended time periods without the normal crushing that has always precluded this activity. The two symmetrically located holes permit the HUG MATTRESS to function when flipped or turned as is commonly recommended every several months and also permit hugging in the head to toe position. When not used for hugging the holes are to be filled with two plugs of matching or similar mattress material that are sold as an integral part of the mattress. Likewise a bottom fitted sheet with two pockets that match the holes and two small sheets for the plugs along with matching pillowcases will be sold with the mattress.
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Grosz Alexander
Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
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