Improved Pillow.
Year: 1897

page_text: I, PETER JONES, 30, Ellerker Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To fix to the longest borders, or midway between the top and bottom edges, inside
of the ticking of a pillow; an apparatus consisting of indiarubber or other elastic or
flexible material to be inflated with air or water into a cylindrical form of suitable
diameter, extending the whole length of the pillow and designed, not only to
accommodate itself to and be a rest for, a person's neck, but to fill up the cavity,
usually formed between the shoulder and the head, in order to relieve the latter,
i.e. the head of undue pressure on the pillow: a contrivance which is calculated to
induce sleep and produce a healthy state of repose.
Dated this 15th day of April 1807
Improved Pillow.
I, PETER JONES, of 30, Ellerker Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention has reference to an improved pillow designed to obviate
inconveniences incidental to the use of pillows as ordinarily made.
According thereto I provide one or each of the long borders or edges of an ordinary
pillow or the central portion of a pillow between the top and bottom borders or edges
with a tubular part or chamber of suitable fluid tight material capable of being
inflated or filled out with air or water and of then forming a flexible or yielding more
or less cylindrical body adapted as part of the pillow to accommodate itself to and be
a rest or support for the neck of the person using the pillow and to fill the space or
cavity that is with ordinary pillows usually left between the user's shoulder and head
so relieving the latter from undue pressure on the pillow and thereby inducing
sleep.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a plan, and Fig. 2 a cross section on the
line ab of Fig. 1, showing one construction of pillow according to my invention.
Figs. 3 and 4; Figs. 5 and 6; and Figs. 7 and 8 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2
respectively illustrating modified constructions of the pillow. The pillow shown in
Figs. 1 and 2 comprises an ordinary case 1 of suitable material such as ticking and of
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page_text: approximately rectangular shape in plan, such case being stuffed as usual with a
filling of suitable soft material such as feathers, down, wool, flock or the like. Near
to one of the long borders or edges of the case and within the latter is secured a
longitudinally extending strip or diaphragm 1ª of ticking or equivalent material so
as to form at that border or edge of the pillow a tubular chamber or receptacle 1
into which there is inserted a tube 3 that is formed of suitable elastic or flexible
and fluid tight material such as india rubber and closed at its ends, one of such ends
being provided with means such as a valve 3, which may be of the kind usually
employed with pneumatic tyres, whereby the tube 3 can be suitably inflated with
air. The ends of the tubular chamber or receptacle 1b may be either open or closed
as desired. In the latter arrangement, the pillow case may extend over the ends of
the tubular portion, where it is slit, the sides of the slit portions of the case being
provided with buttons and button holes, tapes or equivalent means that can be readily
unfastened when it is desired to insert or remove the tube 3. Or one only of the
ends of the tubular chamber or receptacle 1b may be formed as described. As will
be obvious the tube 3 can be inflated to any desired extent within the limit allowed
by the tubular portion of the ticking. Usually however it will only need to be
partially inflated and to no greater degree than can be easily done by a person
blowing into the tube by means of the mouth, so that the inflated tube will be soft
and enable the border or edge of the pillow containing it to readily adapt itself to
and form a rest or support for the neck of the person whose head is laying on the
stuffed portion 2 of the pillow.
Instead of inflating the tube 3 with air, it may be filled or partially filled with
liquid such as water, a suitable valve or closure being provided to enable this to be
done.
Figs. 3 and 4 show a pillow like that illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 except that
each of its long borders or edges is provided with a tubular chamber or receptacle
containing an inflatable tube 3 so that either of the inflated borders or edges of the
pillow is available for supporting or forming a rest for the neck of the user whose
head is resting on the intermediate stuffed portion of the pillow.
Figs. 5 and 6 show a pillow of approximately oval form in plan and provided all
around its peripheral edge with a tubular chamber or receptacle 1b into which is
inserted an inflatable tube 3 of the kind hereinbefore described, such tube being
passed through a suitable hole in the edge portion of the pillow case and arranged to
extend all round and within the said chamber or receptacle as shown, the sides of the
hole being provided with any suitable fastening means such as those hereinbefore
mentioned. With this construction any portion of the inflated border or edge of the
pillow can be used as a rest or support for the neck of the person whose head is
laying upon the stuffed portion of the pillow.
Figs. 7 and 8 show a pillow provided with a chamber or receptacle 1b with
inflatable tube 3 extending longitudinally midway between its long borders or edges,
such chamber or receptacle being formed by and between the upper and lower
portions of the pillow case 1 and two strips or diaphragms 1ª of ticking or like
material, the interior of the case 1 at each side of the chamber or compartment 1b
being stuffed with a filling 2 of the kind hereinbefore described. With this
construction when the pillow is in use, the inflated portion will serve, as in the
other constructions, as a rest or support for the neck of the user whose head lays
upon one of the stuffed portions of the pillow, the other stuffed portion being below
the shoulders and upper portion of the back of the user to which it accommodates
itself.
By making or lining the chamber or receptacle 1b of the pillow with fluid tight
material and closing its ends so as to make it fluid tight, the separate air tube 3
might be dispensed with, or the partition or partitions 1* might be dispensed with
by providing the tube 3 and the pillow case 1 with suitable fastening devices for
securing the tube 3 in position along the edge or central portion of and within the
pillow case.
I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to construct a pillow with an

page_text: inner inflatable core or body; also to construct a pillow with air cells and adapt it to
be used for life saving purposes, but such constructions, which do not come within
the scope of my invention, are entirely different from pillows constructed as
hereinbefore described inasmuch as they are not capable of and were not designed
to act as a rest or support for the neck of a person whose head is laying upon the
stuffed portion of the pillow and fill up the cavity usually left between the user's
shoulders and head so as to relieve the latter from undue pressure and thereby
induce sleep.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. Providing along the edge or the central portion of a pillow a chamber or
receptacle adapted to contain fluid or a fluid charged receptacle the arrangement
being such as to form in the manner set forth a rest or support for the neck of a
person using such pillow, substantially as described.
2. The improved pillows shown in and described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2;
to Figs. 3 and 4; to Figs. 5 and 6; and to Figs. 7 and 8 of the drawings annexed.
Date : 121
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For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.