A mattress insert, able to be inserted into a traditional mattress, includes a plurality of compartments, each containing gel beads and water suitable for simulating the feeling, pressure relief, and temperature regulation of a waterbed. The mattress insert is placed into a foam structural material of the mattress, providing the mattress insert with support and preventing the spread of the gel beads within the insert. The foam core of the mattress may be either solid or rounded. This mattress technology and insert is useful for beds, including medical beds and dog beds, recliners, chairs, and sofas.

For the purpose of simplified production of a motor vehicle seat which can be used in a versatile manner, with a seat part, a backrest and a headrest, the seat part and/or the backrest and/or the headrest have or has a number of chambers which are produced additively from an elastic material, particularly preferably silicone and/or a polyurethane, and which are in each case designed to be filled at least temporarily with a fluid.

A cushion including a pillow portion useable for supporting the head of a user of the cushion and an elongate trunk portion that extends away from the pillow portion and which is usable for supporting the chin of the user. Wherein the pillow portion is shaped so that it is useable to extend from at least a position on the back of the neck of a user whose head is being supported by the pillow portion that is less than three centimeters from the mid-point of the back of the neck to at least a position where it contacts an ear of the user, and wherein in this use of the pillow portion the trunk portion extends away from the pillow portion towards the chin of the user.

A tilt-tip moldable bed system for the care of immobile patients is provided. The bed system may include a moldable mattress having a casing with a bladder defining an inner volume and a top compliant surface over a top surface of the bladder, the compliant surface configured to conform to a shape of a displacing structure. The bladder may be configured to hold a plurality of beads suspended in a fluid medium. The moldable mattress may be molded while inflated and maintain a resilient shape when evacuated. The system may further include a supporting frame for the moldable support structure having a laterally rigid outer rim with at least one attachment point for the moldable mattress, at least one attachment point for a netted sling, and one or more mounting tracks configured to support at least one peripheral attachment.

A tilt-tip moldable bed system for the care of immobile patients is provided. The bed system may include a moldable mattress having a casing with a bladder defining an inner volume and a top compliant surface over a top surface of the bladder, the compliant surface configured to conform to a shape of a displacing structure. The bladder may be configured to hold a plurality of beads suspended in a fluid medium. The moldable mattress may be molded while inflated and maintain a resilient shape when evacuated. The system may further include a supporting frame for the moldable support structure having a laterally rigid outer rim with at least one attachment point for the moldable mattress, at least one attachment point for a netted sling, and one or more mounting tracks configured to support at least one peripheral attachment.

The present invention is directed to a functionally supportive pillow comprising a dynamically responsive combination of an inner core enclosing a bead material and an outer shell, such that the combination of the inner core with the outer shell creates a dynamic response to applied pressure to the pillow for increased functional support of said pillow.

A sleeping and resting apparatus is disclosed that may include a bottom enclosure including a plurality of associated walls defining a first spatial region and an array of compartments positioned within the first spatial region defined by the plurality of walls associated with the bottom enclosure. Each compartment may store a predefined volume of granular material. A top enclosure may include a plurality of associated walls defining a second spatial region and an array of flexible containers positioned within the second spatial region. Each flexible container may store a predefined volume of granular material. At least one temperature controlling element may be positioned in physical proximity with the bottom enclosure to add or remove heat from the granular material stored in at least one compartment of the array of compartments.

A frameless furniture movement assembly for moving a frameless furniture assembly, the frameless furniture moving assembly including a receiving body that accommodates the frameless furniture and prevents decoupling of the frameless furniture assembly from the frameless furniture receiver in at least one of a first direction and a second direction transverse to the first direction, and a movement assembly, mounted to the frameless furniture support, for movement of the frameless furniture support in the first direction.

An item includes a first portion, a second portion coupled to the first portion, and a flap movable between a first position in which the first and second portions together define a first configuration, and a second position, in which the first and second portions together define a second configuration having a different appearance from the first configuration. The flap includes a first surface having a first face represented thereon, the second portion includes a covering having a second face represented thereon, such that when the flap is in the first position, the first face is revealed on the second portion and the second face is hidden underneath the flap, and when the flap is in the second position, the second face is revealed on the second portion and the first face is hidden adjacent the first portion.

The invention provides an improved mattress for sleeping which is to be filled with sand to recreate a sleep experience predating the invention of the modern spring-type, or bladder-type mattress (i.e. air or water-filled). For example, by filling the mattress with sand, it recreates the essence of sleeping on the earth itself. The mattress is composed of a hollow, fillable shell, the bottom and sides of which are constructed from a single piece of heavy duty, durable synthetic fabric; the top panel (or sleeping surface) is constructed from natural fiber fabric.