Wooden spring and mattress manufactured with wooden springs
OwnerGabor VOROS, Davide MEDEOTinventors
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Abstract
Described are wooden coil springs, including those made of non-compressed wood, and mattresses with such coil springs. Also described is a method of producing a coil spring made of non-compressed wood, which includes winding a slat on reel, steaming and drying to produce the wooden coil spring. Such a coil spring may have a cylindrical shape, a cone shape or a truncated cone shape, and may have a substantially perpendicular end turn with respect to the longitudinal axis of the coil spring.
Claims46
A method of producing a coil spring made of non-compressed wood, the method comprising:
- wrapping a slat of wood on a reel and securing the slat on the reel to form the coil spring from the slat;
- steaming the coil spring on the reel;
- drying the coil spring;
- and
- shaping an end turn of the coil spring.
A wooden coil spring made of a slat of wood having a first thickness at a first point in a longitudinal direction different from a second thickness at a second point of the slat in the longitudinal direction.
A mattress comprising:
- a core layer comprising a first plurality of wooden coil springs made of non-compressed wood positioned at a first area of the mattress, and a second plurality of wooden coil springs made of non-compressed wood positioned at a second area of the mattress different from the first area,
- wherein the first plurality of wooden coil springs provides a firmness firmer than the firmness of the second plurality of wooden coil springs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.