U.S. patent application number 12/707148 was filed with the patent office on 2011-08-18 for incorporated in a manufacturing system of pressure or impact receiving bodies, determining for a direction-wise cushioning.
Invention is credited to Ramiro Tarazona De La Asuncion.
Application Number | 20110197368 12/707148 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 50980084 |
Filed Date | 2011-08-18 |
United States Patent
Application |
20110197368 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Tarazona De La Asuncion;
Ramiro |
August 18, 2011 |
INCORPORATED IN A MANUFACTURING SYSTEM OF PRESSURE OR IMPACT
RECEIVING BODIES, DETERMINING FOR A DIRECTION-WISE CUSHIONING
Abstract
This is a body (1) that may become, for example, a mattress with
one density or another, thickness and size, which has various
housings or hollows (2) in an inclined arrangement, this same body
(1) being able to present hollows or housings (2) with a different
inclination, a different arrangement and different size and have
inward protrusions (3) or side branches (4) to provide, in the
first case, greater hardness to the area where the hollows (2) are
located and in the second case, to provide greater softness to the
area of the body (1) where the respective hollows or housings (2)
are located, all of them, some or those corresponding to these
areas or others, being able to incorporate a filling that may range
from air under pressure to a filling of any kind of material,
including reinforcements (11 and 11') with more or less rigidity to
provide the corresponding area greater or less strength.
Inventors: |
Tarazona De La Asuncion;
Ramiro; (Tarazona (Zaragoza), ES) |
Family ID: |
50980084 |
Appl. No.: |
12/707148 |
Filed: |
February 17, 2010 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
5/690 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A47C 27/144 20130101;
A47C 27/20 20130101; A47C 27/148 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
5/690 |
International
Class: |
A47C 27/00 20060101
A47C027/00 |
Claims
1. The improvement in a pressure or impact receiving body (1),
formed as a single piece and intended to receive pressure or impact
in a first direction, comprising; the provision of internal
housings or hollows (2) having central axes in an inclined
direction to said first direction, the internal housings or hollows
being empty or incorporating reinforcements (11-11') or filling
materials (13) of variable rigidity.
2. Improvements, according to claim 1 characterised because the
hollows or housings (2) may have the same or different inclination
in the body (1) where they are made and have the same or different
configuration and size.
3. Improvements, according to claim 1, characterised because the
hollows or housings (2) have one or more internal protrusions (3)
providing greater strength to the area where this type of hollows
or housings (2) are made.
4. Improvements, according to claim 2, characterised because the
hollows or housings (2) have side protrusions (4) favouring the
compass effect in the cushioning provided by said hollows (2),
providing the corresponding area with less strength.
5. Improvements, according to claim 1, characterised because the
body (1), comprises a mattress, may be, totally or partially in the
hollows or housings (2), with or without filling, with one or other
configuration and inclination.
6. Improvements, according to claim 1, because the hollows or
housings (2) may be filled with air or gas under pressure, manually
or by means of an automatism giving a direction-wise massage by the
sequential inflation or deflation of said air chambers.
7. Improvements, according to claim 1, characterised because the
hollows or housings (2) may incorporate reinforcements (11-11') or
a filling material (13) of variable rigidity, occupy the entire
hollow or housing (2), permitting the strength control of the area
in question.
8. Improvements, according to claim 7, characterised because the
reinforcements (11-11') are smaller than the width of the hollows
or housings (2), permitting that said reinforcements (11-11') may
be arranged almost vertically, providing greater strength in the
area where the hollows having these reinforcements are located.
9. Improvements, according to claim 1, characterised because the
hollows or housings (2) may be interconnected to provide less
strength to the area where these connections between hollows or
housings (2) are made.
10. Improvements, according to claim 1, characterised because the
body (1) comprises a mattress, is complemented with a comfort layer
(9) having holes (10) that facilitate the stretching of the
corresponding user (12) when lying on said comfort layer (9),
located over the upper surface of the body (1) of the mattress.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] This invention refers to improvements incorporated in a
manufacturing system for pressure or impact receiving bodies
executed on an original cushioning body, offering the property of
enabling a direction-wise decomposition of the forces or stresses
received, forces which constituting the purpose of the intended
cushioning, due to the system of this patent may be harnessed to
improve the effective practical performance of the equipment or
device to which this cushioning system is incorporated, preferably
mattresses or cushions that will have hollows according to a
preferably inclined arrangement, with different configurations,
sizes and arrangements.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Traditionally the cushioning provided by a body such as a
mattress, the soles of footwear, etc, is performed by pressure and
without shifting such that the cushioning effect is limited and
logically will depend on the density of the corresponding body.
[0003] Patent PCT/ES 2008000702 describes a cushioning system has
been developed with directional capacity determining an
unquestionable advance in the technique known until now and
performed for the attenuation of pressures or impacts in very
different situations, particularly in resting items so extended
like mattresses and cushions.
[0004] The subject matter of the present invention is to provide
some improvements in the prior art described in the mentioned
patent in order to improve the measures of cushioning forces,
moreover obtaining a harnessing of the forces resulting from the
cushioning performed.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0005] The body being considered may consist of any type of
suitable material, with more or less density, which may be uniform
in all its extension, or have areas of greater hardness than
others, all the latter as is conventional, having the particularity
that the body being considered has several housings or hollows,
that may be empty, filled with air under pressure, incorporate
filling items and even springs, anyway constituting a body which
under a pressure or impact over it provides a direction-wise
cushioning, as a consequence of the inclined arrangement of the
hollows or housings.
[0006] These hollows or housings, when the body is, for example, a
mattress or a cushion, may have different configurations, even have
a different size, some being more inclined than others, as well as
having inward protrusions or not, to provide more or less hardness
to the body or mattress being considered.
[0007] Hence, when a mattress is being considered, and it is
desired that, for example, the area that has to support greater
weight, the intermediate area or that of the back, is more
reinforced, then the housings may have a greater number of inward
protrusions than the rest, providing a very reinforced area on
having this type of housing, the same occurring with the head area
or even with the foot area.
[0008] Likewise, the hollows or housings may also have side
branches to favour the compass effect, as the body may also only
have hollows or housings in a determined part thereof, as may be
the head area when considering a mattress, and even having an
extreme space in this area designed to favour an obstacle free
displacement, that is to prevent the impact with the bed
headboard.
[0009] As a result, by means of the characteristics of the body,
purpose of the invention, a mattress may be obtained with areas of
different hardness, that is harder areas, softer areas and areas of
intermediate hardness, depending on if they correspond to the area
of the back, head, feet or lumbar zone, such that if the hollows or
housings established in the body have opposite inclinations, the
former will have a double prophylactic and therapeutic function,
resulting especially interesting for the treatment of illnesses and
back problems, such as disc hernias or protrusions, lumbar aches or
sciatica, since thanks to these opposite inclinations of the
hollows, a smooth vertebral "decompression" is obtained.
[0010] On the other hand, the hollows may even be interconnected
and incorporate air or gas under pressure, providing them greater
hardness, or filling or reinforcement elements, including springs,
some of them being equipped with reinforcement and others without,
that is, to combine filling means with others within the same body
of the mattress and even have reinforcements occupying part of the
hollows as regards to width, allowing that these reinforcements are
arranged with one or other inclination, constituting in these cases
reinforcements that enhance the compass effect of the mattress when
the body of the invention is made in such a way. If air or gas is
incorporated in the hollows by means of pneumatic chambers the
strength of the mattress may be manually modified by the user. Also
the possibility of incorporating an automatism in these cases is
foreseen, performing a direction-wise massage by means of the
sequential inflation and deflation of said air chambers.
[0011] Furthermore, it should be mentioned that the mattress may be
complemented with an upper comfort layer, superimposed over the
former, to facilitate stretching and whose comfort layer may
likewise have holes or slits, such that in combination with the
means the body or mattress incorporate regarding housings and
hollows and the filling thereof, the mattress may be adapted to the
requirements of the user.
[0012] Among the most important advantages derived from the body
with the direction-wise cushioning system, purpose of the
invention, executed as a mattress, the following may be mentioned:
[0013] Better ventilation of the mattress is obtained due to the
cushioning effect incorporated. [0014] Less weight and therefore
the mattress may be more easily transported and handled, thanks to
its internal hollows or housings. [0015] Economic saving in
production since less material is required on having these hollows
or housings. [0016] Better control of the rigidity of the resulting
product or mattress, only having to vary the shape and arrangement
of the hollows and housings and the filling incorporated to
them.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0017] To complement the description to be made and with the
purpose of providing a greater understanding of the invention
characteristics, according to a preferable example of a practical
execution thereof, a set of drawings with an illustrative and
non-limiting character is included as an integral part of said
description:
[0018] FIG. 1.--This shows a detail of a section of part of the
body with a direction-wise cushioning system executed according to
the purpose of the invention.
[0019] FIG. 2.--This shows a sectional view like that of the
previous figure where the housings or hollows have a different
configuration to that of FIG. 1. This configuration favours the
compass effect.
[0020] FIG. 3.--This shows a sectional view of the body that may
correspond, for example, to the head of a mattress, this only
having hollows in the area of said head.
[0021] FIG. 4.--This shows a sectional view of a complete mattress
where the different areas thereof may be seen with different types
of bodies or housings, with opposite inclinations, also different
configurations and with details that provide more or less hardness
to the corresponding area of the mattress.
[0022] FIG. 5.--This shows a detail of a section of a body part
where hollows or housings may be observed incorporating
reinforcements, like, as may be appreciated, for example, an area
corresponding to the mattress head where the body is materialised,
with the housings or hollows interconnected and the reinforcements
of less force than those foreseen in other hollows of a more
intermediate area of the mattress body.
[0023] FIG. 6.--This shows a variation of the execution shown in
the previous figure, where the reinforcements have a different
inclination to that of the housing hollows, being located in a
practically vertical arrangement, to provide greater strength to
the mattress.
[0024] FIG. 7.--Finally, this shows a mattress with the silhouette
of a person's body located over the former, with the interposition
of a comfort layer and where different areas of the mattress may be
seen with more or less reinforcement depending on the
configuration, arrangement and other characteristics of the hollows
or housings the mattress hollow incorporates.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0025] As may be seen in the mentioned figures, and more
specifically in FIG. 1 the one-piece body (1) intended for loading
by way of pressure or impact in a first direction is provided with
the direction-wise cushioning system, purpose of the invention, has
several hollows or housings (2) that may have a different shape,
size and inclination, since in all cases these housings or hollows
(2) are executed with principal axes inclined with respect in an
inclined way with respect to the first direction of the body or
mattress, such that some of them, as indicated in the mentioned
FIG. 1 include an inward protrusion (3) providing greater rigidity
to the area where the hollows or housings (2) have been made with
this characteristic detail of the inward protrusion.
[0026] FIG. 2 shows the body (1), where the hollows or housings (2)
are made with a side branch (4) providing greater softness, that
is, less rigidity of the body (1), and favouring the compass effect
the body (1) has to make when a person is lying over it, in the
case that this body (1) constitutes a mattress as shown in the
following figures. Specifically in FIG. 3, the body (1) has,
corresponding to the area of the head, housings or hollows (2) with
the side branch (4) providing an area of less hardness than the
rest of the body (1) which does not have the mentioned hollows or
housings, besides being foreseen that in the extreme of this area
of the head there is an opening (5) facilitating displacement and
preventing that the movement of the body (1) is limited by impact
with the bed headboard.
[0027] In FIG. 4, the body (1) is shown consisting of a complete
mattress, with the hollows or housings (2) according to different
configurations and even a different inclination, those foreseen in
the area of the head with respect to those in the lumbar or feet
areas, being the head area of this body of the mattress (1) that
referred to as (6), the intermediate area (7) and the feet area
(8), it being possible to observe that in the latter zone, the
housings (2) have a side branch (4) providing a softer area to this
part of the mattress, whilst in the intermediate area the hollows
or housings (2) have one or even two inward protrusions (3),
providing a harder area, in combination with the different or
opposite inclination of some or others and the arrangement of some
intermediate housings (2'), showing in the head (6) area, an
arrangement of housings or bodies (2) with a similar configuration
to the feet area (8), resulting in an area of also less rigidity
than the central or support area for the user's back, the opening
(5) being seen in said FIG. 4, which determines the space to
facilitate the displacement and to prevent that movement of the
body (1) is limited by impact with the bed headboard. That is, in
the execution shown in this FIG. 4, the mattress has a head area
(6) softer than the intermediate area (7), which is that of
greatest hardness and the feet area (8) also softer, completing
said body (1) of the mattress with a comfort area (9) that may have
holes (10) to facilitate stretching.
[0028] Likewise, it should be said that the hollows or housings (2)
may be empty as shown in the figures considered until now, with the
possibility of being filled by a manual or automatic system with
air or gas under pressure, by which the user may fill the hollows
or housings according to his/her weight and needs, obtaining a
desired control. The possibility of inflation or deflation has been
foreseen, executed by an automatism, which acting sequentially
produces a directional massage effect.
[0029] With respect to the side protrusions (4) of determined
hollows or housings (2) the former favour the compass effect or
directed cushioning when an impact is produced by the support of
the body, for example, of a person, over the mattress or body (1)
constituting it.
[0030] In FIG. 5, the body (1) is shown corresponding to the head
area of the mattress, in which the opening (5) may be seen or the
margin of displacement as mentioned above, and where the hollows or
housings (2) may be empty, as seen for one of them or incorporate a
filling comprising reinforcements (11), that may be helicoid
springs, semi-rigid parts, carbon fibre, etc, without discarding
other types of filling providing greater hardness to this area of
the body (1), or the hollows or housings (2) being interconnected
as also may be seen in FIG. 5, and equipped with reinforcements
(11') of less force than the reinforcements (11) providing a softer
area to this part where the hollows (2) are connected with the
reinforcements (11') than the area of the hollows (2) with the
reinforcements (11).
[0031] In a variation of execution of that previously considered
and shown in FIG. 6, it is seen how the reinforcements (11) do not
totally occupy the corresponding body (2), but are of a smaller
size and moreover are provided with a different inclination, in
this case almost vertical, to provide a different hardness.
[0032] In either case, the hollows or housings (2) may be filled
with air, be empty, incorporate reinforcements (11-11'), or other
type of fillings (13) providing greater rigidity or hardness to the
corresponding area where these fillings are located and likewise
depending on the greater or lesser rigidity of them.
[0033] Finally, in FIG. 7, the body (1) of the mattress with the
comfort layer (9) may be seen and on it a user (12), where the
different configurations and arrangements of the hollows or
housings (2) may be seen, in some cases empty, in others with a
filling (13), determining an area of greater hardness or
reinforcement where these fillings (13) are located, in other cases
with one or more internal protrusions (3), providing greater
hardness, when existing, in other cases with side protrusions (4),
providing softer areas and establishing the compass effect, etc,
the different hollows (2) capable of even having opposite
inclinations in the body (1) of the mattress and in any case with
holes (10) in the comfort layer (9), to facilitate stretching as
mentioned previously.
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