Bedding foundation support module
AssigneeHickory Springs Manufacturing Company
InventorKevin N. McCraw
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Abstract
A support module for use in a bedding foundation to support a support surface above a bedding foundation base, the support module being of an independent wire form configured to define a top portion, a bottom portion, and four predominantly straight support legs, wherein the support legs are skewed with respect to each other, such that each respective support leg is not parallel to any of the other support legs. The top of each support leg is bent to be oriented into a common first plane to form the top portion, which may be connected to a wire grid assembly to form a nestable bedding foundation.
Claims20
A support module for use in a bedding foundation to support a wire grid assembly above a bedding foundation base, the support module comprising a freestanding wire form configured to define a top portion, a bottom portion, and four predominantly straight support legs, wherein the support legs are skewed with respect to each other, such that each respective support leg is not parallel to any of the other support legs, and wherein the top portion further comprises two upper wire segments, each upper wire segment joined to a pair of the predominantly straight support legs and further having a predominantly straight section being located in a substantially horizontal first plane and being spaced apart from and substantially parallel to the respective predominantly straight section of the other respective upper wire segment.
A nestable bedding foundation comprising a wire grid assembly and a plurality of support modules, each support module being an independent wire form configured to define a top portion, a bottom portion, and four predominantly straight support legs interconnecting the top portion to the bottom portion, the top portion being connected to the wire grid assembly;
- the top portion further comprising two upper wire segments, each upper wire segment joined to a pair of the predominantly straight support legs and further comprising a predominantly straight section being located in a substantially horizontal first plane and being spaced apart from and substantially parallel to the respective predominantly straight section of the other respective upper wire segment;
- the bottom portion further comprising three wire segments, one of the three wire segments being joined to a pair of the predominantly straight support legs and further comprising a predominantly straight section being located in a substantially horizontal second plane, the two other of the three wire segments each being joined to a single predominantly straight support leg and further comprising a predominantly straight section being located in a substantially horizontal third plane and terminating in one of two wire ends facing in opposite directions with respect to each other;
- and the four predominantly straight support legs are skewed with respect to each other, such that each support leg is not parallel to any of the other respective support legs.
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