Hoover Group, Inc.

L&p Property Management Company

Hoover Wire Products, Inc.

William C Rodgers

Upton R Dabney

Arval W Barnes, Sr

John P Kitchen

A spring assembly comprising a frame, a plurality of rails secured to the frame and a plurality of spaced springs secured to the rails. Each of the rails has a generally U-shaped cross-section and comprises a bottom and two sidewalls. Each sidewall has an inwardly projecting detent creating a receptacle underneath the detent adapted to receive and hold a spring. Each of the springs has a substantially planar lower portion which is generally S-shaped and adapted to be positioned in the receptacles of the sidewalls of the rail and rotated into a snap-fit locked position. In this locked position, the detents of the sidewalls hold the lower portion of the spring against the bottom of the rail and prevent lateral or vertical movement of the spring.

Spring to metal rail connection

A formed wire spring assembly having upper and lower spaced decks including a border wire and a plurality of deck wires arranged in a criss-cross fashion. The deck wires of the upper deck and lower decks are paired with one another and are connected by springs disposed between the two decks to support the decks in spaced relationship and yieldable fashion relative to one another.

Formed wire mattress assembly

Wire spring assemblies for use in furniture items such as mattresses and seat cushions are made of two half units. The half units include spring elements extending from a generally planar deck with the spring elements containing complementary connecting structures at their distal ends which enable the half units to be assembled together by inverting one half unit relative to the other, aligning the two half units and snap-fitting the connecting structures of the spring elements together to form a double sided mattress or seat core. The assemblies are then upholstered in a normal fashion.

Wire spring assemblies made of nestably stackable half units

A spring wire core for use in bedding mattresses and/or upholstered furniture cushions and the like comprised of a pair of half units. Each half unit includes a surface portion and a plurality of springs projecting in one direction from the surface portion. Connecting elements are provided to enable a pair of half units, one inverted relative to the other, to be connected together forming a wire core with two spaced surface portions. Preferably, the spring portions are configured to enable a plurality of the half units to be nestably stacked one upon another to enable efficient shipping of the half units without compression of the spring portions.

Spring wire core made of nestably stackable half units

A spring assembly for bedding and furniture which includes a support frame and a grid unit disposed above and in general vertical alignment with the frame, the grid unit including a border wire and cross wires arranged in a criss-cross pattern on said border wire. A plurality of upright spring modules are arranged in a predetermined pattern on the grid unit and supported on said frame, each of the modules being attached in a clipless manner at the upper end thereof to the grid unit so as to be connected to the unit in a manner such that up and down movement of the grid unit results in up and down compression and expansion of the spring modules. Each of the spring modules being a one-piece wire spring of tapered shape to enable spring modules to be arranged in nested stacks for shipping and storage.

Nestable spring assemblies for bedding and furniture

A spring and grid sub-assembly for use in furniture and box spring assemblies in which spring modules are attached to the wire grid through an attachment system in which the springs are in both an over-under relationship and a side-to-side interwoven relationship with the cross wires through plastic deformation of the cross wires whereby the springs can not be removed from the wire grid without plastic deformation of either the grid or spring modules. The resultant sub-assembly can be easily transported from a sub-assembler to a final assembler without risk of the springs being displaced or removed from the wire grid. Furthermore, spring clips are not needed for attaching the spring modules to the grid.

Grid and spring subassembly for box springs

A spring assembly for bedding and furniture which includes a support frame and a grid unit disposed above and in general vertical alignment with the frame, the grid unit including a border wire and cross wires arranged in a criss-cross pattern on the border wire. A plurality of upright spring modules are arranged in a predetermined pattern on the grid unit and supported on the frame, each of the modules being attached in a clipless manner at the upper end thereof to the grid unit so as to be connected to the unit in a manner such that up and down movement of the grid unit results in up and down compression and expansion of the spring modules. Each of the spring modules being a one-piece wire spring of tapered shape to enable spring modules to be arranged in nested stacks for shipping and storage.

A spring assembly for bedding and furniture which includes a rectangular support frame and a grid unit disposed above and in general vertical alignment with the frame, the grid unit including a border wire and cross wires arranged in a criss-cross pattern on said border wire. A plurality of upright formed wire springs modules are arranged in a predetermined pattern on the grid unit and supported on said frame. Some of the modules constitute main springs which are attached in a clipless manner at the upper ends thereof to the grid unit so as to be connected to the grid unit in a manner such that loads on the grid unit are yieldably resisted by the main springs. Others of the spring modules are corner springs located at the corners of the frame. The corner springs are similar to the main springs but are secured by conventional clips to the corners of the border wire in the grid unit. Each of the spring modules is of one-piece wire construction and is of downwardly tapered shape to enable grid and spring module assemblies to be efficiently arranged in compact nested stacks for shipping and storage.

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Lexington, KY, United States of America

William C Rodgers