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US 6,272,701 B1Granted
Fitted mattress cover with a skirt having an integral elastic edge
AssigneeXymid, L.L.C.
InventorDimitri Peter Zafiroglu
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Abstract
A fitted mattress cover is provided with a flat top panel and a knitted or woven fabric skirt attached to and depending from the periphery of the top panel. The lower edge of the skirt contains a band of longitudinally extending elastic yarns that were integrally incorporated into the edge during fabrication of the skirt fabric. The yarns of the elastic band provide sufficient tension to pull some of the skirt fabric under the mattress and provide a secure fit when the cover is installed on a mattress.
Claims7
A fitted mattress cover comprising:
- a flat top panel of substantially inextensible fabric for overlaying the top surface of a mattress;
- and
- a skirt attached to and depending from a periphery of the top panel, wherein the skirt is a knit fabric having yarns that form courses and wales or a woven fabric having yarns that form warps and wefts,
- the successive courses or wefts extending in a transverse direction perpendicular to the periphery of the top panel
- the wales or warps extending in a longitudinal direction parallel to the periphery of the top panel, and
- the skirt further having a top edge and a lower edge, at least the lower edge comprising elastic yarns integrally incorporated therein and extending in the longitudinal direction.
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A process for preparing a fitted mattress cover comprising the steps of
- forming a flat top panel of substantially inextensible fabric, the panel having a peripheral edge;
- knitting or weaving a skirt fabric with upper and lower longitudinal edges, at least the lower edge comprising elastic yarns longitudinally extending and integrally incorporated therein,
- applying sufficient tension to at least the upper longitudinal edge of the skirt fabric so that the upper longitudinal edge is stretched to within 5 to 20% of the total longitudinal % stretch that the skirt fabric can reach;
- and
- attaching the thusly stretched upper longitudinal edge of the skirt fabric while under the tension to the peripheral edge of the top panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.