EP1047321A1

EP1047321A1 - Leaning or sitting device

Info

Publication number: EP1047321A1
Application number: EP99900051A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Balthasar Hüsler
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1998-01-16
Filing date: 1999-01-18
Publication date: 2000-11-02
Also published as: WO1999035940A1; US6263528B1

Abstract

The leaning or sitting device substantially comprises a mattress (3), a lath spring (1/2) and elastic transverse supports. A mattress cover surrounds the mattress (3) while the lath spring (1/2) consists of a lath spring sheet (1) with fixing means and a plurality of laths (2). In order to form a mattress/lath spring unit which is easy to use and can be easily disassembled in terms of components, longitudinal central connecting parts (14, 44), i.e. parts of zippers which can be fully separated, are provided on the mattress cover (4) and the lath spring sheet (1). Said connecting parts cooperate with each other and extend preferably along the entire length of the leaning device. When the longitudinal central connecting parts of the mattress cover (4) and the lath spring sheet (1) are connected, the mattress (3) positioned in the mattress cover (4) and the lath spring (1/2) form an easy to use mattress/lath spring unit that is substantially surrounded by the sheet (mattress cover and lath spring sheet) and on which transverse supports sheets can also be sawn.

Description

LOUNGE OR SEAT FURNITURE

The invention relates to a reclining or seating device according to the preamble of the first claim. The lying device according to the invention has a mattress, a slatted frame which is flexible in the longitudinal direction and a resilient base for the slatted frame. If the device is also to be used as a seat device, it may be narrower and has a backrest extending along a long side.

A lying device is known from publication EP-0243383 (Fouton), which is light and structurally simple and which nevertheless offers a high lying comfort, even if only a thin mattress is used. This lying device has a slatted frame with a plurality of parallel transverse slats which rest on at least two resilient longitudinal bars. The slats and the resilient longitudinal spars are held together by a slatted frame and positioned relative to each other. This slatted frame cloth has essentially the rectangular shape of the lying device and has slat fastening means, for example rows of pockets arranged along its longitudinal edges, and longitudinal tunnel tracks for the spring bars. The slatted frame cloth is dimensioned in such a way that it is stretched in the transverse direction by slats inserted into two opposing pockets. Form slatted frame, slats and spars a light, yet stable, flexible in the longitudinal direction, for example rollable unit, but which can be easily dismantled into its components for cleaning and, if necessary, for replacing the parts. For use, a preferably thin mattress, for example made of latex foam, is placed on the slatted frame / slat / spar unit. The lying device is placed directly on the floor or on a support frame or on support rails of a bed frame for use.

From the publication WO-96/28072 (interchangeable slat), which deals in particular with specific designs of rows of pockets for positioning slats, rows of pockets integrated in mattress covers are also described. In such an embodiment, the slats are attached directly to the underside of the mattress by means of pockets, and the mattress, together with the slats, forms a unit that is placed on separate, resilient longitudinal bars. This embodiment is particularly suitable for the use of fitted sheets that are stretched around the mattress / slat unit.

The object of the invention is now to further improve lying devices of the type described above, in particular with regard to simplicity of handling and without any loss in terms of lying comfort and ease of manufacture.

This object is achieved by the lying device as defined by the independent claim. The lying device according to the invention, which can be used lying directly on the floor or placed on a support frame or on the longitudinal spars of a bed frame, has the following parts: a mattress, a mattress cover, a plurality of slats, a slatted bed sheet with slat fastening means, for example, rows of pockets , at least two resilient longitudinal spars and, if appropriate, corresponding spar covers made of cloth. The slatted frame cloth and the spar wrappings can be connected to one another in a non-detachable or detachable manner. The mattress cover and the slatted bedcloth can be reversibly connected to one another by releasable connecting means such that the slatted bed consisting of the slatted bed sheet and the slats, which are flexible in the longitudinal direction, can be fastened to the underside of the mattress in such a way that the slats come to lie between the mattress and the slatted bed sheet. The essential feature of the reclining or seating device according to the invention is therefore the mattress / slatted frame unit which can be easily separated into its components and which is essentially completely covered by a cloth (mattress cover and slatted must).

The lying device according to the invention is described in detail with reference to the following figures. Show:

Figure 1 shows the four main components of the lying or seating device according to the invention: Lattemosttuch, slats, mattress and mattress cover;

FIG. 2 shows a cross section through an exemplary embodiment of the lying device according to the invention;

FIG. 3 shows a further embodiment of the slatted frame cloth, which additionally has spar wrapping means with resilient longitudinal spars inserted therein; FIG. 4 another cloth as a possible further component of the lying device according to the invention;

Figure 5 shows an enlarged detail of the lattemost cloth with pocket tape and longitudinal connection means;

Figure 6 further exemplary embodiments of longitudinal connecting means.

1 shows an exemplary embodiment of the main components of a lying device according to the invention: a slatted frame cloth 1 with rows of pockets 11, a plurality of slats 2 to be arranged parallel to one another and in the transverse direction of the lying device, a mattress 3 and a mattress cover 4 made of cloth. The main components shown are cut in the transverse direction of the lying device and it is only a part of each with a width q, which corresponds essentially to the entire lying device width and is shown with a partial length 1, the cutting surface being turned towards the viewer. The components of the lying device are arranged in the figure from top to bottom in the manner in which they are arranged essentially from bottom to top.

The mattress 3 is, for example, a 5 to 10 cm thick layer of latex foam. The mattress cover 4 consists, for example, of a stable cotton cloth and has a complete mattress top cover 41, narrow side covers 42 adjoining it on all sides, and a mattress bottom cover 43. The underside of the mattress cover 43 consists at least of a strip of cloth running along all the lower edges of the mattress and adjoining the narrow side covers 42. As shown in FIG. 1, the middle part of the mattress base can side, if it is housed in the mattress cover 4, remain uncovered.

The entire mattress cover 4 can, as already mentioned, consist of a stable cotton cloth. However, it is also possible to design at least the mattress top cover 41 as a woolen cloth or as a quilted combination of a double wool tricot with a carded wool fleece in between or as a corresponding quilted combination of cotton. A mattress covering part made of such a material can take over the function of a separate mattress topper.

Furthermore, the mattress covering 4 has longitudinal connecting means parts 44 fastened in the region of the lower longitudinal edges, for example two cloth strips 45, each with a part of a completely separable zipper 46, which cooperate with longitudinal connecting means parts 14 fastened to the slatted frame cloth.

The longitudinal connection middle parts 44 of the mattress cover 4 either run, as shown, in strips over the entire length of the mattress cover 4 and are firmly connected to the mattress cover 4 in the region of the lower longitudinal edges and around the corners of the mattresses along part of the lower transverse edges, for example in the edge seams of the mattresses - Covering 4 sewn in.

As already mentioned, an effective connection means is, for example, a completely separable zipper 46. However, for example, a strip of a Velcro fastener or a reversible adhesive connection can also be used. a series of buttonholes or eyelets or buttons or a series of push buttons are used.

The longitudinal connection means can also consist of one or more partial connections which are distributed over the length of the mattress and which do not concern the corners. Such partial connections can be, for example, spaced-apart binding straps, buckle straps or button straps sewn along the lower longitudinal edge of the mattress (see also FIG. 6).

The slatted frame cloth 1 has essentially the same length and width as the mattress 3 or is a little smaller than this. Lateral pocket rows 11 are provided as slat fastening means. The pockets are formed, for example, by a cloth overlap 12 running along the longitudinal edge, which is quilted into pockets at regular intervals (points 13). The openings of the pockets lie on the side of the slatted mantle cloth 1 facing the mattress. On the other side of the slatted mantle cloth (facing away from the mattress 3), longitudinal connector parts 14 which are displaced from the rows of pockets against the center of the slatted frame cloth 1 are fastened, which are connected to the longitudinal connecting element parts 44 the mattress cover 4 cooperate. As examples of such longitudinal connection means, parts of completely separable zippers are shown, which can be connected to the corresponding zipper parts 46 of the mattress cover 4.

The slats 2 are shown in the arrangement in which they are also positioned in the lying device according to the invention between the mattress 3 or the underside of the mattress cover 43 of the mattress cover 4 and the slatted sheet 1, their ends then in the pockets of the rows of pockets 11 stuck. The slats 2 are for tensioning the slatted frame 1 advantageously slightly longer than the distance between two opposing pockets.

FIG. 2 shows part of a cross section through the lying device according to the invention, which is produced when the components shown in FIG. 1 are connected to one another. The same parts are designated with the same reference numerals as in FIG. 1. In addition, a resilient longitudinal spar 5 is also shown, which is inserted, for example, in a tunnel-shaped spar covering 51 fastened to the slatted frame cloth 1. The whole is a mattress / slatted frame / spring bar unit, which is covered on all sides by a cloth.

Figure 3 shows in the same representation as Figure 1, a lattemost cloth 1 with rows of pockets 11, on which fixed or releasable tunnel-shaped spar casings 51 with resilient longitudinal spars 5, for example made of latex foam, are accommodated therein. So that a mattress / slatted frame / longitudinal spar unit is also easy with fixed sheets, that is to say with sheets that are pulled together with the help of elastic bands on the underside of a mattress (or a mattress / lattemost unit) and thus tensioned the spar wrappings 51, as indicated in FIG. 3, advantageously not connected to the slatted cloth 1 in their end regions (foot and head end of the lying device), so that the sheet can be positioned between the slatted cloth 1 and the spars 5.

The spar wrappers 51 are, for example, as indicated in FIGS. 2 and 3, fastened by fixed seams to the slatted cloth 1, the slatted cloth 1 forming one side of the spar sheaths. The spar covers can also be closed and for example, be releasably attached to the slatted scarf 1 with the aid of a Velcro strip or individual other connecting means.

It is not a condition for the lying device according to the invention that the resilient longitudinal spars are attached to the slatted scarf 1. They can also, advantageously housed in appropriate coverings, be used as separate components or they can be connected in a suitable manner to a support frame or to the longitudinal spars of a bed frame.

FIG. 4 also shows a separate underside of the mattress cover 47, which may possibly also belong to a kit for lying devices according to the invention. The underside of the mattress cover 47 consists, for example, of the same cloth as the mattress cover 4 and has longitudinal connecting means parts fastened along its longitudinal edges as the slatted frame cloth 1. If the mattress belonging to the lying device according to the invention is to be used separately, that is to say not as a mattress / slatted bed unit, it is used Mattress cover on the underside of the mattress covered by the underside of the mattress cover 47 by connecting the connecting means parts of the mattress cover and the underside of the mattress cover 47, for example coupling the illustrated zipper parts and closing the resulting zipper.

FIG. 5 shows a detail of an exemplary embodiment of the slatted frame cloth 1 with pockets 11 and a longitudinal connection middle part 14 in the form of a zipper part. The row of pockets 11 is in the form of a double band or a folded band 16, which is arranged at regular intervals to form pockets. is quilted, realized. The pocket tape 16 is fastened to the longitudinal edges of a central region V of the slatted muslin 1 by means of a longitudinal seam 15, in which longitudinal seam 15 between the central tissue region V and the pocket belt 16 the zipper part is also sewn.

Embodiments of Lattemosttuch 1 with pocket row 11, in which the row of pockets are realized as a separately manufactured pocket band 16, are particularly advantageous if the pockets are designed in such a way that the absolute length of the pocket row with inserted batten ends is smaller than without inserted batten ends. This is always the case for bags of bags that are simply made from an inelastic double band by bag stitching. The middle cloth area 1 'is thus cut to a length which corresponds to the finished length of the couch arrangement, the pocket band 16 is longer in accordance with the longitudinal shrinkage to be expected from the inserted slats. When sewing the longitudinal seam 15, the transport of the pocket belt 16 is increased in comparison to the transport of the middle cloth region 1 'and the zipper part in such a way that the additional length of the pocket belt 16 is regularly distributed over the length of the cloth, which in the case of the expected differences in length without wrinkling in the longitudinal seam 15 should be possible. In a bedding arrangement according to the invention with a slatted bedcloth 1 with pocket rows 11 according to FIG. 5, the middle cloth area V will therefore lie wrinkle-free and taut on the underside of the mattress / slatted frame unit.

A further advantageous variant for producing the lattes cloth 1 with pockets 11, as shown in FIG. 5, consists in producing pocket tapes to which a zipper part 14 is sewn on in the manner described above, such that the pocket strap is longer is as the zipper part and the additional length regularly over the length of the Zipper part is distributed. Pocket tapes prepared in this way are then sewn in a further seam on both sides of a central cloth area 1 '.

In the manner described, the problem of shortening the pocket line length, which has been known for a long time, is solved simply and elegantly by the inserted slats, and a slatted mustard cloth lying flat in the longitudinal direction is created.

FIG. 6 shows some further embodiments of spaced-apart longitudinal connection means, which can be used instead of the zippers used in FIGS. 1, 2 and 5. As already mentioned above, these are, for example, pairs of a binding band 61 fastened to the mattress cover and a binding band 61 fastened to the lattemost cloth 1, band 62 with a button / buttonhole connection, push button connection or buckle connection or band 63 with Velcro fastener.

Claims

PATENT CLAIMS

1. Lying or seating arrangement with a mattress (3) with a mattress covering (4), with a slatted frame (1/2) and with at least two resilient bars (5) running in the longitudinal direction of the lying arrangement, the slatted frame (1/2 ) has a slatted cloth (1) with fastening means for the slats (2), whereby a plurality of slats (2) on one side of the slatted cloth (1) can be fastened in a position parallel to the width of the lying device, characterized in that the mattress (3) and the slatted frame (1/2) are connected by releasable connecting means to a mattress / slatted frame unit, which mattress / slatted frame unit is essentially completely covered by a cloth.

2. Lying or seating arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the connecting means for connecting the mattress (3) and slatted frame (1/2) two longitudinal connecting means in the form of at least one pair of a first and a second, cooperating connecting part (14, 44), the first connecting part (44) being attached to the mattress cover (4) and the second connecting part (14) being attached to the slatted towel (1).

3. reclining or seat arrangement according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the slat fastening means along the longitudinal edges of the slatted mantle cloth (1) extending pocket rows (11) with itself on the against the mattress (3) side of the lattemost cloth (1) opening pockets.

4. Lying or seating device according to claims 2 and 3, characterized in that the mattress cover (4) has a mattress top cover (41), narrow mattress cover (42) and a mattress cover (43) that the first connecting parts (44) in the area of the transition between the longitudinal edges of the mattress underside cover (43) and the narrow mattress cover (42) are attached to the mattress cover (4) and that the second connecting means parts (14) parallel to the pocket rows (11) and on the side of the lattemost cloth (1) facing away from the mattress (3) are attached to the latter.

5. reclining or seating device according to one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that the pairs of first and second, cooperating longitudinal connection means parts (14/44) parts of completely separable zippers (46), Velcro closures, rows of buttons or

There are rows of button buttons which are at least partially attached to strips of cloth (45) running the length of the bed.

6. Lying or seating arrangement according to one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that the pairs of first and second, mutually cooperating longitudinal connection parts are spaced-apart pairs of bands (61, 62, 63), the buttons or button holes or eyelets, push buttons, Wear Velcro fasteners or buckles or which can be bound together.

7. reclining or seating device according to one of claims 2 to 6, characterized in that the lattemost cloth (1) consists of a central region (1 '), which has the length of the reclining device or the mattress (3), and that by means of Lateral longitudinal seams (15) are sewn onto the central region (1 ') pocket tapes (16), the length of the pocket bands (16) being greater than the length of the central region (1') and the longitudinal seams (15) being designed in this way that the additional length of the pocket tapes (16) is regularly distributed over the length of the central area (1 ').

8. reclining or seat arrangement according to claim 5 and 7, characterized in that the longitudinal seams (16) not only the central region (1 ') of the slatted towel (1) and a pocket band (16) but additionally a zipper part (46) are interconnected, the

Zipper part (46) has the length of the middle fabric area (1 ').

9. reclining or seat arrangement according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that on the lattemost cloth (1), on one side of which the slat fastening means are arranged, has on its other side bean casings (51) or fastening means for spar casings.

10. reclining or seating device according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the mattress covering (4) has a mattress underside cover (43) consisting of cloth strips adjoining the narrow mattress side covers (42), such that the existence middle area of the mattress (3) is not covered by the mattress cover (4).

11. Lying or seating arrangement according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the mattress cover (4) and the lattemost cloth (1) consist of cotton cloth.

12. reclining or seat arrangement according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that of the mattress cover (4) at least one mattress cover (41) made of woolen cloth or a quilted combination of two layers of wool or cotton jersey and an intermediate layer consists of a carded fleece made of wool or cotton.