Box spring assembly
AssigneeLeggett & Platt, Incorporated
InventorsLarry Higgins, John Thomas King, Blondie Butler, Francis R. Struewing, deceased
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Abstract
A box spring assembly for use as a supporting foundation for a bed mattress. The assembly comprises a wooden frame, slats, spiral springs, edge coil springs, a border wire and a welded wire top grid. The spiral springs extend transverse to the wooden slats and alternate revolutions of the spiral springs are secured to the slats. At the top, the spiral springs are supported by the welded wire grid. Side edge reinforcement and resiliency is provided by coil springs, each of which is secured at the bottom to the wooden frame and at the top to the border wire and grid.
Claims19
A box spring assembly for use in supporting a bed mattress, said assembly comprising
- a rectangular base frame located in the bottom plane of said box spring assembly,
- a plurality of slats extending between two opposite sides of said base frame,
- a rectangular border wire generally overlying said base frame, said border wire being located in a plane spaced from but parallel to the plane of said base frame,
- a grid of wires located in the plane of said border wire and defining the top plane of said box spring assembly, said grid comprising a plurality of longitudinal and transverse wires secured at their opposite ends to said border wire, and
- a plurality of parallel spiral spring wires extending generally perpendicular to said slats, and spiral spring wires being secured at the bottom to said slats and at the top to said grid of wires.
A box spring assembly for use in supporting a bed mattress, said assembly comprising
- a rectangular base frame located in the bottom plane of said box spring assembly,
- a plurality of slats extending between two opposite sides of said base frame,
- a rectangular border wire generally overlying said base frame, said border wire being located in a plane spaced from but parallel to the plane of said base frame,
- a grid of wires located in the plane of said border wire and defining the top plane of said box spring assembly, said grid comprising a plurality of longitudinal and transverse wires secured at their opposite ends to said border wire,
- a plurality of parallel spiral spring wires, each of said spiral spring wires extending between opposite sides of said base frame, said spiral spring wires being secured at the bottom to said slats and at the top to said grid of wires, and
- a plurality of coil springs located along each side and at the corners of said box spring assembly, said coil springs being secured at the bottom to said base frame and at the top to said border wire.
A box spring assembly for use in supporting a bed mattress, said assembly comprising
- a rectangular base frame located in the bottom plane of said box spring assembly,
- a plurality of slats extending between two opposite sides of said base frame,
- a rectangular border wire generally overlying said base frame, said border wire being located in a plane spaced from but parallel to the plane of said base frame,
- a grid of wires located in the plane of said border wire and defining the top plane of said box spring assembly, said grid comprising a plurality of longitudinal and transverse wires secured at their opposite ends to said border wire, and
- a plurality of parallel spiral spring wires extending generally normal to said slats, each of said spiral spring wires having less than all of its revolutions secured to said slats,
- said spiral spring wires being secured at the top to said grid of wires, and
- those revolutions of each of said spiral spring wires which are unsecured to said slats being free to move both vertically and axially upon vertical loading of said box spring assembly.
A box spring assembly for use in supporting a bed mattress, said assembly comprising
- a rectangular base frame located in the bottom plane of said box spring assembly,
- a plurality of slats extending between two opposite sides of said base frame,
- a rectangular border wire generally overlying said base frame, said border wire being located in a plane spaced from but parallel to the plane of said base frame,
- a grid of wires located in the plane of said border wire and defining the top plane of said box spring assembly, said grid comprising a plurality of longitudinal and transverse wires and secured at their opposite ends to said border wire, and
- a plurality of parallel helical spiral spring wires, each of said helical spring wires extending between opposite sides of said base frame, said helical spring wires extending generally perpendicular to said slats, said helical spring wires being secured at the bottom to said slats and at the top to said grid of wires and each of said parallel helical spiral wires having an axis extending generally parallel to said top plane of said box spring.
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