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US 3,935,605 AGranted
Mattress foundation
AssigneeSimmons Company
InventorRonald G. Hutchinson
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Abstract
A foundation in the nature of a bedspring for use beneath a mattress to support the same upon a bedframe or the like, having a peripheral base frame for supporting the foundation and having structure rising from the peripheral frame inwardly thereof to provide a stable, elevated platform which is substantially unyielding in its central area under the normal loads imposed upon a bedspring, and which, at least in its side edge areas, is resiliently yieldable in response to vertical load.
Claims12
A foundation in the nature of a bed spring for use beneath a mattress to support the same, comprising
- a base providing at least a rigid lower periphery for supporting the foundation and
- structure rising from said base to provide an elevated supporting platform substantially coextensive with the mattress to be supported,
- said platform having a stable central area which is substantially rigid and unyielding under normal loads imposed upon a bed spring,
- the area of said platform between said central area and at least the side edges of the foundation being resiliently deflectable under concentrated vertical load, and having an extent laterally of the foundation sufficient to cushion the concentrated load of a person seated on the side edge of a mattress supported by the foundation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.