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(11) |
EP 1 203 546 A3 |
| (12) |
EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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Date of publication A3: |
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05.11.2003 Bulletin 2003/45 |
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Date of publication A2: |
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08.05.2002 Bulletin 2002/19 |
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Date of filing: 02.11.2001 |
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Designated Contracting States: |
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AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR |
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Designated Extension States: |
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AL LT LV MK RO SI |
| (30) |
Priority: |
02.11.2000 GB 0026804
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| (71) |
Applicant: John Cotton Group Limited |
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Mirfield, West Yorkshire WF14 0EH (GB) |
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| (72) |
Inventors: |
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- Uttley, John Stewart
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 7EW (GB)
- Rushton, Carl
Bradford, West Yorkshire BD12 9LX (GB)
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Representative: Vaughan, Christopher Tammo et al |
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Harrison Goddard Foote, Belgrave Hall Belgrave Street
Leeds LS2 8DD
Leeds LS2 8DD (GB) |
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| (54) |
Bed mattress filling materials |
(57) A bed mattress fibre filling material consisting of a blend of cellulosic fibre and
polymeric fibre where the cellulosic fibre preferably represents between 50% and 65%
of the blend, and the polymeric fibre preferably represents between 35% and 50% of
the blend. Such a material combines comfort and load bearing characteristics and improves
fire safety performance such that a bed mattress containing the filling material is
subject to neither smouldering, ignition nor flaming ignition, when subjected to ignition
sources up to ignition source 5 (BS 5852) or its equivalent.