Mattress and Box Spring with Hidden Gun Compartment

Abstract

A gun holder is situated within a box spring beneath a mattress. The mattress itself has an opening therein matching the size of the opening into the gun holder and extending through the mattress. One can then lie on one's bed and near one's arm, reach downward into the box spring or other mattress support, and grab the gun without having to move the majority of one's body from the position in which one was sleeping on the bed.

Claims

1. A combination mattress and box spring comprising: a mattress with top, bottom, left, right, front, and back sides; a mattress support with top, bottom, left, right, front, and back sides situated beneath said mattress; a portal in said mattress extending from said top side to said bottom side of said mattress having a left, right, front, and back side; a portal in said mattress support having a top side lined up with, and having equal dimensions to, said portal in said mattress, wherein said portal in said mattress support has a top section, terminating at said top side of said portal of said mattress support, which is wider than a lower section.

2. The combination mattress and box spring of claim 1, wherein said portal in said mattress is of equal width from said top side to said bottom side of said mattress.

3. The combination mattress and box spring of claim 2, where both said portal of said mattress and said portal of said mattress support have left, right, front, and back sides.

4. The combination mattress and box spring of claim 3, wherein said portal of said mattress support has a wider said bottom side than said top side.

5. The combination mattress and box spring of claim 4, wherein said portal of said mattress support opens on a bottom side into a bullet trap which is constructed in a manner sufficient to retain a bullet fired from a handgun situated there-in.

6. The combination mattress and box spring of claim 5, wherein said bottom side and adjacent bottom portion are adapted to hold a slide of a gun and are smaller in width than a magazine of said gun.

7. The combination mattress and box spring of claim 5, wherein a trigger guard of said gun rests against a top edge of said bottom portion of said portal of said mattress support.

8. The combination mattress and box spring of claim 5, further comprising a sheet covering at least said top side of said mattress with a flap in said sheet opening into said portal of said mattress.

9. A gun holder situated within a mattress support beneath a mattress, such that said mattress support has a substantially equal width and length as said mattress and a portal, extends through said mattress and substantially aligns with said portal of said mattress support on at least four sides of each of said portal of said mattress and said portal of said mattress support.

10. The gun holder of claim 9, further comprising a bullet trap opening into a bottom side of said gun holder and adapted to stop a bullet from penetrating there-through when fired from a handgun held in said gun holder.

11. The gun holder of claim 9, wherein said gun holder has a wider upper portion and narrower lower portion.

12. The gun holder of claim 11, further comprising a handgun where a magazine of said handgun fits only in said wider upper portion to the exclusion of said narrower lower portion.

13. The gun holder of claim 12, wherein said mattress is covered by a sheet with a flap opening into a top side of said mattress.

14. The gun holder of claim 13, wherein said flap opens on three sides of said gun holder.

15. A method of using a gun holder comprising the steps of: placing a gun through a portal in a mattress into a portal of a mattress support situated beneath said mattress, such that a barrel of said gun points downward away from said mattress; grabbing a handle of said gun and pulling it out through said mattress; pointing said gun in a direction away from said mattress and shooting.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising a step of covering said portal of said mattress with a bed sheet after said step of grabbing.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0011] FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a person lying in bed while an intruder comes in, in embodiments of the disclosed technology.

[0012] FIG. 2 shows the scene of FIG. 1 after the person lying in bed grabs his/her own gun, in an embodiment of the disclosed technology.

[0013] FIG. 3 shows a mattress with flap in the sheet that can be opened, revealing a hidden gun compartment, in an embodiment of the disclosed technology.

[0014] FIG. 4 shows a perspective view of a gun compartment used in embodiments of the disclosed technology.

[0015] FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of a second gun compartment used in embodiments of the disclosed technology.

[0016] FIG. 6 shows a side elevation view of a mattress and box spring with gun compartment, used in embodiments of the disclosed technology.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS OF THE DISCLOSED TECHNOLOGY

[0017] A gun holder is situated within a box spring beneath a mattress. The mattress itself has an opening therein matching the size of the opening into the gun holder and extending through the mattress. One can then lie on one's bed and near one's arm, reach downward into the box spring or other mattress support, and grab the gun without having to move the majority of one's body from the position in which one was sleeping on the bed.

[0018] Embodiments of the disclosed technology will become clearer in view of the following description of the drawings.

[0019] FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a person lying in bed, while an intruder comes in, in an embodiment of the disclosed technology. A person 1 is lying in his bed, sleeping or otherwise, when in walks person 2 ready to do harm to person 1. Person 1 lies on a top side of a mattress 10 which is, in turn, situated on a box spring 12. The mattress 10 can have a bullet-proof layer at the top or bottom, so that it can be used as a shield, if need be. Person 1 has the ability to defend himself beneath his sheet, because, unknown to person 2, there is a portal 20 extending through the mattress 10 into the box spring, where a gun 3 is present within a portal 22 of the box spring. Person 2 or someone else previously placed the gun there and hid it from view.

[0020] FIG. 2 shows the scene of FIG. 1 after the person lying in bed has grabbed his/her own gun, in an embodiment of the disclosed technology. Continuing our scenario from FIG. 1, person 1 reaches for the gun held in the portal 22, pulls it out, and now can shoot person 2, or at least point the weapon at the person. The gun can be pulled out from the portal 22 under a sheet (not shown).

[0021] FIG. 3 shows a mattress with openable flap in the sheet revealing a hidden gun compartment, in an embodiment of the disclosed technology. Here, the flap 15 closes on to the top side 16 of a portal 22 of the mattress 10. This top side of the portal is adjacent to/opens to the top side of the mattress 10, and the flap 15 can be part of the mattress or a bed sheet covering the mattress. The flap 15 can be attached on one side, while detached or openable on three sides, such as is shown in FIG. 3. Note also that a cylindrical chamber 23 is shown where the gun is held in this embodiment. The gun holder/chamber 23 has equally-sized top and bottom sides and straight walls extending from the top to the bottom. In other embodiments, such as shown in FIG. 2, a top portion can be smaller than a bottom portion and can be defined based on their relative sizes, with the top portion being smaller. Portals 21 and 22 in the mattress can also line up with portals 23 or 24 in the mattress support. The mattress support can be a box spring.

[0022] FIG. 4 shows a perspective view of a gun compartment used in embodiments of the disclosed technology. A portion shown represents the portal 21 within the mattress, and another portion represents portal 34 within the mattress support. Here the gun compartment or gun holder 34 has a top portion which is narrower (rectangular region, and) which opens to the exact size of the portal 21 of the mattress on the left, right, front, and back sides (relative to the sides of the bed, as the terminology is used throughout this disclosure). A bottom portion of the gun holder is narrower and defined-thereby. The bottom portion holds a slide or barrel 43 of the gun, whereas the lowest side of the top portion abuts the trigger guard 42 of the gun, while the magazine 41 of the gun is too wide/angled/long to fit within the bottom portion of the holder 34. In this manner, the barrel is forced to point downwards away from anyone lying on top of the bed Thus, in case of accidental discharge in bed, the bullet will go downwards and not enter into anyone in the bed.

[0023] FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of a second gun compartment used in embodiments of the disclosed technology. In this version, a larger bullet trap of the gun holder 22 is used. Here, it is trapezoidal, having curved sides and more distance to catch a bullet misfired there-in, where the bullet can then bounce around without causing harm.

[0024] FIG. 6 shows a side elevation view of a mattress and box spring with gun compartment used in embodiments of the disclosed technology. In this view, it can readily be seen that the mattress portal 20 extends downward through the mattress 10 and joins a portal 12 having the same length and width. That is, the left, right, front, and back sides align. The gun 3 points downwards into a lower portal 22, which can also serve as a bullet trap.

[0025] While the disclosed technology has been taught with specific reference to the above embodiments, a person having ordinary skill in the art will recognize that changes can be made in form and detail without departing from the spirit and the scope of the disclosed technology. The described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive. All changes that come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are to be embraced within their scope. Combinations of any of the methods and apparatuses described hereinabove are also contemplated and within the scope of the invention.