Patent ID: 8856991
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: A47C,A47G

Abstract:
1. A pillow, comprising two sheets of flexible material, joined together to define a space, suitable for inflating to provide a cushioned support, the pillow having: a head zone for providing cushion means interposed between a user's head and a surface upon which said user is resting; two wings, configured to extend away from a centre-line of the head zone towards wing ends such that the deflated pillow is substantially U-shaped in a horizontal cross-section of the pillow; a channel, defined between the sheets of flexible material, configured to connect the wings, and positioned at a point in the head zone remote from the wing ends, wherein the width of the channel increases from the centre-line such that when the pillow is inflated, the pillow has a substantially V-shaped profile in elevation, formed about the centre-line and centred about the channel, being defined by a V-shaped upper surface comprising arms extending upwardly from a first vertex and a V-shaped lower surface comprising arms extending from a second vertex upwardly in the same direction as the arms of the V-shaped upper surface.