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US 8,181,296 B2Granted
Foam spring mattress with replaceable foam springs
AssigneeHsiu Chen Liao
InventorMartin B Rawls-Meehan
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Abstract
An aspect of the present invention relates to a method and system of receiving information of a user's support facility comfort requirements; using a software application to determine a proper support facility firmness configuration to match the user's requirement; selecting foam springs with the proper user required firmness as determined by the software application; and configuring the selected foam springs within the support facility to match the user's firmness requirements.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of foam springs arranged in an interior portion of a mattress;
- a fabric webbing attached to the mattress, the fabric webbing securing at least two of the plurality of foam springs in a predetermined location within the mattress, wherein the fabric webbing includes one or more openings that permit each of the at least two of the plurality of foam springs to be independently removed from and replaced to the predetermined location within the mattress;
- a foam layer positioned above the foam springs and within the interior portion of the mattress;
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- a foam layer positioned below the foam springs and within the interior portion of the mattress,
- wherein the fabric webbing partially encases the foam springs and wherein the fabric webbing encases 30-40% of the foam springs.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of foam springs arranged in an interior portion of a mattress;
- a fabric webbing attached to the mattress, the fabric webbing securing at least two of the plurality of foam springs in a predetermined location within the mattress, wherein the fabric webbing includes one or more openings that permit each of the at least two of the plurality of foam springs to be independently removed from and replaced to the predetermined location within the mattress;
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- an attachment device that attaches at least two of the plurality of foam springs to each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.