US 12,245,701 B2
Sectioned pocketed spring assembly
Guido Eigenmann, Carthage, MO (US); Darrell A. Richmond, Carthage, MO (US); Bernhard Bauer, Oberuzwil (CH); Urs Liechti, Goldach (CH); and Andreas Meier, Roggwil (CH)
Assigned to L & P Property Management Company, South Gate, CA (US)
Filed by L&P Property Management Company, South Gate, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/212,287.
Application 17/212,287 is a division of application No. 16/418,041, filed on May 21, 2019, granted, now 11,109,686.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/684,334, filed on Jun. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0235883 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. A47C 27/06 (2006.01); A47C 7/20 (2006.01); A47C 7/34 (2006.01); A47C 7/35 (2006.01); A47C 27/05 (2006.01); A47C 27/07 (2006.01); B68G 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 27/064 (2013.01) [A47C 27/053 (2013.01); A47C 27/062 (2013.01); A47C 27/07 (2013.01); B68G 7/00 (2013.01); A47C 7/20 (2013.01); A47C 7/347 (2013.01); A47C 7/35 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bedding or seating product comprising:
a pocketed spring assembly comprising a plurality of parallel strings of pocketed springs of approximately the same height, each of said strings being joined to at least one adjacent string, each of the strings comprising a plurality of interconnected pockets, each of the pockets containing only one spring encased in fabric, the fabric being joined to itself along a longitudinal seam and having first and second opposed plies of fabric on opposite sides of the springs, the fabric of said first and second plies being joined by transverse seams,
wherein at least some of the strings comprise a first section having springs of a first gauge wire and a second section having springs of a second gauge wire different than the first gauge wire, a tab of the first section overlapping a tab of the second section, the overlapping tabs of the first and second sections being the same height as the height of the plurality of parallel strings of pocketed springs and being welded together;
cushioning materials; and
a cover encasing the pocketed spring assembly and cushioning materials.