Patent ID: 6088858
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: A47C,Y10S

Abstract:
A mattress jacket for attachment to a mattress, said mattress jacket having an accessible and expandable compartment comprising a side wall adapted to be wall closely contacting all side walls of said mattress on which it is installed, said side wall of said jacket is adapted to be tucked under a bottom wall of said mattress and having means for tightly securing the same under said mattress, said expandable compartment further having a bottom sheet of fabric adapted to be being in close contact with a top surface of said mattress, said side wall having a first fold therein capturing an edge of said bottom sheet and means for securing said fold to said edge of said bottom sheet, a second fold in an upper section of said side wall being secured to itself by sewn seams, said second fold representing an accordion fold that can expand or collapse, a third fold in a further upper section of said side wall, said third fold having means for securing said fold and forming an upper planar edge, a cover for closing the thus created compartment, means for separably attaching said cover to said further upper section of said side wall.