Pillow with rod-shaped insert
OwnerRyan Leeinventor
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Abstract
A pillow with a removable rod-shaped insert is described herein. The rod-shaped insert is removably insertable into a cavity and/or trough within the pillow. Both the rod-shaped insert and the cavity and/or trough are substantially semi-circular at each vertically oriented cross-section thereof. The cavity includes an opening in a side of the pillow opposite a side thereof which is in contact with a user's head and/or body. The rod-shaped insert has a plurality of parallel ridges on at least one outer surface thereof and extends between both lateral sides of the pillow. In some configurations, the rod-shaped insert is a single substantially planar structure which is folded into a substantially semi-circular shape. In some configurations, the rod-shaped insert has an internal removably-insertable structure.
Claims17
A therapeutic pillow comprising:
- a pillow with a single trough therein, said trough extending linearly across a longest horizontal extent of a bottom side of said pillow;
- and
- an insert, comprising a rounded surface corresponding to a shape of said trough, removably insertable into said trough;
- wherein an area circumscribed by said trough and by an opening thereof is substantially in a shape of a semi-circular prism;
- wherein a distance between a deepest point of said trough and said bottom side is substantially less than half of a distance between, and substantially more than a third of a distance between, a top side of said pillow and said bottom side;
- wherein said bottom side of said pillow is substantially smooth and level throughout but for said single trough;
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- wherein a top side of said pillow, said top side being opposite said bottom side, is substantially smooth and level throughout.
A therapeutic pillow comprising:
- a pillow with a single trough therein, said trough extending linearly across a longest horizontal extent of a bottom side of said pillow;
- and
- an insert, comprising a rounded surface corresponding to a shape of said trough, removably insertable into said trough;
- wherein an area circumscribed by said trough and by an opening thereof is substantially in a shape of a semi-circular prism;
- wherein a distance between a deepest point of said trough and said bottom side is substantially less than half of a distance between, and substantially more than a third of a distance between, a top side of said pillow and said bottom side;
- wherein said insert comprises a single substantially planar structure which is folded into a substantially semi-circular shape;
- wherein substantially every vertical cross-section of said insert is in a shape of a semi-circle and further comprising two non-abutting extended legs joining at a curved upper portion there-between;
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- wherein every said vertical cross-section of said insert is in a plane is substantially perpendicular to a plane of said top side and/or said bottom side and/or each of longer lateral sides of said pillow and substantially parallel to a plane of each of shorter lateral sides of said pillow.
A therapeutic pillow kit comprising:
- a pillow with a single linear hollow in a shape of a prism therein;
- a pillowcase in a location thereon corresponding to a location of said linear hollow;
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- a plurality of inserts with shapes substantially corresponding to said shape of said linear hollow;
- wherein each said insert is removably insertable into said linear hollow;
- wherein a side of said pillow comprising said linear hollow is substantially smooth and level there-throughout but for said single linear hollow;
- and
- wherein a side of said pillow opposite said side comprising said linear hollow is substantially smooth and level there-throughout.
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