Patent ID: 6122782
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: A47G

Abstract:
An item of bedclothes which includes at one end a mattress engaging means which is adapted to engage over one end of a mattress having an upper surface, said mattress engaging means being made from a sheet of flexible sheet material defining a first end having a center, two sides, and a second end having a center opposite to the first end, characterized by:a pair of generally triangular slots formed in the first end of said sheet, the triangular slots being disposed substantially symmetrically on either side of a longitudinal axis passing though the center of the first end and the center of the second end, and being spaced apart by a distance X, the triangular slots defining an open end and two opposite sides, each side having an approximate length Y wherein the length Y is larger than, but less than twice the length X, and wherein the first end includes corner portions that are cut out along a line extending from each side at an angle of about 20.degree. to about 40.degree. to the longitudinal axis of each side, to the first end, thereby defining two angled edge lines;the opposed sides of each triangular slot being joined together to form an engagement means for engaging over the end of a suitably sized mattress; andwherein elastic material is applied along the first end of the item and along each angled edge line, the elastic material being tensioned;wherein the engagement means is attached to or integral with an item of bedclothes, whereby when the engagement means is engaged on the one end of a mattress, an area of sheet material above the mattress adjacent the engagement means is not pulled against the upper surface of the mattress by the engagement means so that said area of the sheet material is free to pivot away from the mattress, about an axis extending along the one end of the mattress at which the engagement means is engaged; andwherein the engagement means is retained on the mattress partly by tension in the engagement means which extends generally transversely across the mattress, the opposite end of the bedclothes being free from any such engagement means.