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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1992
Terence A Scott, Carthage, MO (US);
Robert D Oexman, Carthage, MO (US);
Earl W Kennedy, Joplin, MO (US);
Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, Carthage, MO (US);
Abstract
A modular bedding system which comprises a rigid non-resilient platform having depressions formed in the top surface thereof for the reception of resilient cushions, and a relatively thin mattress supported atop that platform and the cushions. In one preferred embodiment, there is a depression and one cushion located beneath the shoulders of a person reclining atop the mattress of the bedding system and a second cushion located beneath the hips of a person reclining atop the system. In another preferred embodiment, there is a single cushion located in a single depression of the bed but the cushion extends beneath the shoulders to beneath the hips of a person reclining atop the mattress and has a zone of increased firmness located beneath the waist of that person.