IP Library Granted Patent US 8,122,546
Granted Patent B2
US 8,122,546 · App. 12/946,516 · Granted Feb 28, 2012

Adjustable width mattress with relief portions

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Patent No.
US 8,122,546
App. No.
12/946,516
Granted
Feb 28, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mattress assembly includes an inner core assembly 48 including a core portion 49 having a head end and a foot end defining a core longitudinal length; a left width adjustment portion 56 comprising a plurality of left width adjustment bladders 60 , the left width adjustment portion extending laterally away from a left side of the core portion; a right width adjustment portion 58 comprising a plurality of right width adjustment bladders 62 , the right width adjustment portion extending laterally away from the right side of the core portion; the left and right width adjustment portions each having a head end substantially longitudinally aligned with the head end of the core portion and extending footwardly a longitudinal distance less than the core longitudinal length thereby defining left and right relief portions 66, 68.

Claims (12)

1. A mattress assembly comprising:

an inner core assembly including a core portion comprised of a plurality of core bladders, the core portion having a head end and a foot end defining a core longitudinal length;

a left width adjustment portion comprising a plurality of left width adjustment bladders, the left width adjustment portion extending laterally away from a left side of the core portion;

a right width adjustment portion comprising a plurality of right width adjustment bladders, the right width adjustment portion extending laterally away from the right side of the core portion;

the left and right width adjustment portions each having a head end substantially longitudinally aligned with the head end of the core portion and extending footwardly a longitudinal distance less than the core longitudinal length thereby defining left and right relief portions;

a retainer assembly having a base and a plurality of tubes secured to the base and which slidingly receive the core bladders.

2. The mattress assembly of claim 1 wherein the left and right width adjustment portions each comprise A bladders and B bladders.

3. the mattress assembly of claim 1 wherein the plurality of core bladders includes A core bladders and B core bladders, the left width adjustment portion includes A left width adjustment bladders each aligned with an A core bladder and B left width adjustment bladders each aligned with a B core bladder, and the right width adjustment portion includes A right width adjustment bladders each aligned with an A core bladder and B right width adjustment bladders each aligned with a B core bladder.

4. The mattress assembly of claim 1 including a vapor barrier positioned above the core bladders, left width adjustment bladders and right width adjustment bladders.

5. The mattress assembly of claim 4 wherein the vapor barrier comprises a polyurethane coated material with a nylon substrate.

6. The mattress assembly of claim 1 wherein the tubes comprise a urethane film.

7. the mattress assembly of claim 1 comprising one tube for each core bladder bounded by the left and right relief portions and two tubes for each core bladder not bounded by the left and right relief portions.

Assignments (6)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST AT REEL/FRAME 050260/0644 Recorded Dec 14, 2021
From: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
To: BREATHE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; HILL-ROM SERVICES, INC.; ALLEN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.; WELCH ALLYN, INC.; HILL-ROM, INC.; VOALTE, INC.; BARDY DIAGNOSTICS, INC.; HILL-ROM HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 058517/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Sep 4, 2019
From: HILL-ROM HOLDINGS, INC.; HILL-ROM, INC.; HILL-ROM SERVICES, INC.; ALLEN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.; ANODYNE MEDICAL DEVICE, INC.; VOALTE, INC.; WELCH ALLYN, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
Reel/Frame 050260/0644 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2019
From: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
To: VOALTE, INC.; HILL-ROM SERVICES, INC.; ALLEN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.; WELCH ALLYN, INC.; HILL-ROM COMPANY, INC.; HILL-ROM, INC.; ANODYNE MEDICAL DEVICE, INC.; MORTARA INSTRUMENT, INC.; MORTARA INSTRUMENT SERVICES, INC.
Reel/Frame 050254/0513 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Sep 26, 2016
From: HILL-ROM SERVICES, INC.; ASPEN SURGICAL PRODUCTS, INC.; ALLEN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.; WELCH ALLYN, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 040145/0445 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 10, 2015
From: ALLEN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.; HILL-ROM SERVICES, INC.; ASPEN SURGICAL PRODUCTS, INC.; WELCH ALLYN, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 036582/0123 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 17, 2011
From: CHAMBERS, KENITH W; BUTLER, MARY; BISH, SUZANNE
To: HILL-ROM SERVICES, INC.
Reel/Frame 025648/0930 →