Beds – Support means for discrete portion of user – useable with bed... – For head or neck
Patent
1990-11-16
1992-03-03
Grosz, Alexander
Beds
Support means for discrete portion of user, useable with bed...
For head or neck
5424, A47G 900
Patent
active
050920057
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a pillow for use by nursing.
Obviously, many women have problems placing themselves in a sufficiently relaxed position when nursing or breast feeding their babies, seeing that they have to carry a considerable part of the baby's weight in one arm. A sausage shaped pillow with an oval cross section and a length enabling the pillow to extend all around the mother's waist is known. The intention of this known pillow is that the mother should place it around her waist with its two ends in front of her, so that the baby can rest its head on the one end of the pillow, its legs on the other end and its seat or behind down between the two ends on the mother's thighs. The operations involved in using this pillow are complicated and require a bed, a couch or a big armchair to get enough space for the pillow, which, furthermore, the mother often has to keep in place or position with her elbows in order to prevent its ends to slide away under the baby.
The purpose of this invention is to provide a useful relief means rendering it possible for the mother to concentrate fully on nursing without having to use her strength to keep the baby or the pillow in position, and whereby the above drawbacks of the known pillow are eliminated.
Said purpose is obtained by a pillow according to the invention, which is characterized in that the pillow in its condition of use has a rigid C-shape which is determined by the shape of the pillow material, that the free ends of the C-shape are intended for being placed at the back of the mother when the opening of the C-shape is placed around the mother's waist, and that the interjacent part of the pillow, i.e. in the intermediate part of the C-shape, at least on its upper surface, has a hollow or depression preformed to the baby.
By such pillow the baby can be placed in said depression in a safe and stable position, and simultaneously the weight of the baby via the pillow is transferred to the lap of the mother. The pillow is safely maintained around the waist of the mother due to the fixed encircling form of the free ends of the C-shape around the mother's hips.
In a first embodiment of a pillow according to the invention, the pillow includes two substantially C-shaped layers of rubber or plastic material, which are joined together along their edges and provided with a valve for inflation of the pillow.
Thereby a low-cost pillow is obtained which in deflated condition is not very bulky and is easy to carry.
According to the invention the depression in the upper surface or the pillow may be provided along a linear, circular of elongated ovally extending reinforcement of the rubber or plastic material in the upper layer, preferably in form of a joining or connection of the upper and lower wall part of the pillow along the reinforcement curve.
As far as production technique is concerned, a simple method of providing the desired depression or hollow in the upper surface of the pillow, is to bond the upper and lower layer of material along what is referred to herein as a reinforcement curve 8 seeing that the reinforced areas during the inflation will expand less than the surrounding material.
In a preferred embodiment according to the invention the hollow may be elongated and having two ends, and the pillow may be thicker or higher outside the ends of the hollow than outside the sides of the hollow so that the pillow seen in a longitudinal section through the hollow is higher at both ends than at the middle of the hollow.
Thereby a comfortable support of the baby's head, body and legs during the nursing is obtained.
In another embodiment according to the invention the hollow may preferably be formed by a local reduction of the pillow thickness.
The extension of the hollow in the longitudinal direction thereof may preferably be approximately 1:3 of the largest dimension of the pillow in its inflated condition, and the extension of the hollow in the cross direction thereof is preferably approximately 1:4 to 1:3 of the largest cross section of the pillow at the middle of t
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