Animal mattress
OwnerThomas L. Zartmaninventor
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Abstract
The apparatus is an animal mattress. One embodiment is a pad made from a relatively loose pack of long particle recycled tire rubber bonded together with a polymer. The spaces between the particles provide compressibility and resiliency. The pad has corrugations on the bottom, a flat top, and is covered by a waterproof polymer fabric cover when installed. A second embodiment uses fine particles which are more tightly packed. The central section of its bottom surface is undercut to form an inverted pan-like structure. The pan sides form a support frame, and a pattern of pillars is located within the pan so that the flat top is supported but compressible.
Claims12
An animal mattress comprising a pad molded of particles of automobile tire rubber and a bonding agent to hold the particles together, with the size of the particles and the spacing between the particles adjusted to determine the resiliency of the pad wherein the particles are long cut tread flakes recycled from a process in which blades remove only the tread portion of tires.
An animal mattress comprising a pad molded of particles of automobile tire rubber and a bonding agent to hold the particles together, with the size of the particles and the spacing between the particles adjusted to determine the resiliency of the pad wherein one surface of the pad is flat, the central section of the pad is thinner than the edge sections, and pillars within the central section extend from the surface of the central section to the height of the edge sections.
An animal mattress comprising a pad molded of particles of automobile tire rubber and a bonding agent to hold the particles together, with the pad installed on a stall floor between the head end of the stall, a keeper board at the open end of the stall, and side boards, with the keeper board and the side boards attached to the stall floor, and a protective cover installed on top of the pad by fastening the cover to the keeper board and the side boards with the pad captured between the keeper board and the stall floor and the cover wrapped around the keeper board.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.