US 5,435,026 AGranted

Mattress clip and mattress

OwnerFrank G. Cavazosinventor

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Abstract

A mattress clip to secure the fabric flange of a mattress cover to adjacent springs of the innerspring assembly, such clip having a hook end, a short lateral leg extending therefrom to an integrally formed single loop having a narrow but resiliently expandable entrance to receive and hold the ring of an adjacent coil spring therein, a longitudinal leg extending therefrom to an integrally formed double loop, a return longitudinal leg extending therefrom to terminate in a sharply pointed end adjacent the hook for reception therein after the return longitudinal leg with the sharply pointed end has been passed through the fabric flange of the mattress cover. Such clips enable an end use customer to assemble a mattress from component parts, including the innerspring assembly, then placing insulating and cushioning pads thereon which are secured to the springs by the mattress clips, finally placing the outer mattress cover with fabric flange over the insulating and cushioning pads and securing such flange to the springs by the mattress clips. The peripheral border strip is then secured around the peripheral side wall of the mattress by a zipper assembly or hook and loop fastener strips around the upper and lower peripheral edges of the border strip, or by a zipper assembly or hook and loop fastener strips around one of such peripheral edges and by permanently securing the other peripheral edge to the adjacent peripheral edge of the mattress cover.

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Dependent claims

A mattress clip to secure a portion of pierceable covering material to a connecting portion of an adjacent spring, comprising a resilient member of material having spring characteristics of being bendable from an original position under pressure and returnable to said original position when such pressure is released, said resilient member having a receiving portion to receive and retain said connecting portion of said adjacent spring therein, said receiving portion having an entrance space opening thereto between a first facing portion of said resilient member and a second spaced apart facing portion of said resilient member, said entrance space having a dimension between said first and second facing portions which is less than the cross-sectional dimension of said connecting portion of said spring to releasably retain it in said receiving portion when received therein, said first and second facing portions being sufficiently resilient to spread apart to enable said connecting portion of said spring to pass therethrough into said receiving portion and to snap back to their original positions when said connecting portion of said spring has been received in said receiving portion, said resilient member including a piercing portion to pierce a said portion of pierceable material and to extend therethrough for securing said pierceable material to said resilient member, said piercing portion being movable between a clip open position for piercing through a said portion of pierceable material and a clip closed position to secured said pierceable material to said resilient member when said connecting portion of said spring is received and retained in said receiving portion of said resilient member, including latch means to hold said piercing portion in its said clip closed position.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.