Global Patent Index - EP 1380236 B1

EP 1380236 B1 20071121 - Mattress and mattress cover

Title (en)

Mattress and mattress cover

Title (de)

Matratze und Matratzenhülle

Title (fr)

Matelas et couvre-matelas

Publication

EP 1380236 B1 20071121 (EN)

Application

EP 03447183 A 20030710

Priority

  • EP 03447183 A 20030710
  • EP 02447131 A 20020711

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP1380236A2] A mattress having a longitudinal and a transverse direction and at least one lying surface arranged to support a user, the mattress comprising a resilient core (1), which is arranged to be depressed when a user is lying onto the mattress, and a mattress cover (2) enclosing the mattress core a(1) and made at least at the location of said lying surface of a cover material showing a predetermined stretchability, said lying surface showing at least one zone (II) which is situated in the longitudinal direction of the mattress between two adjoining zones (I and III) and which is arranged to be depressed deeper than those two adjoining zones and wherein in the area formed by said zone and by said two adjoining zones, the cover material is interrupted at least once in the longitudinal direction of the mattress and, at each interruption (10, 11), the interrupted portions of the cover material are connected to one another by means of an elastic band (12) which band extends with its longitudinal direction in the transverse direction of the mattress and which band has at least in its transverse direction a higher stretchability than the predetermined stretchability of the cover material thereby increasing the compressability of the mattress in said zone (II). <IMAGE>

IPC 8 full level

A47C 21/06 (2006.01); A47C 27/00 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

A47C 31/105 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 1380236 A2 20040114; EP 1380236 A3 20040204; EP 1380236 B1 20071121; DE 60317610 D1 20080103; DE 60317610 T2 20081023; ES 2297118 T3 20080501

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 03447183 A 20030710; DE 60317610 T 20030710; ES 03447183 T 20030710