Patent ID: 6978498

Claim:
A bed frame for supporting a mattress, comprising: (a) a rigid horizontal rectangular frame ( 1 ) including opposed pairs of parallel spaced vertically oriented longitudinal side ( 1 a ) and transverse end ( 1 b ) walls, respectively; (b) a planar wooden bottom wall ( 4 ) connected with the bottom of said frame to define an open-topped enclosed space; (c) a lattice ( 2 ) cooperating with said wooden bottom wall to define in said enclosed space a plurality of insulting air chambers ( 5 ), said lattice comprising: (1) a plurality of parallel spaced horizontally-arranged vertically oriented support slats ( 3 ) arranged in said enclosed space normal to and extending between a first parallel pair of said frame walls; and (2) a plurality of parallel spaced horizontally arranged horizontally oriented cross slats ( 9 ) extending transversely above said support slats in a direction normal to a second pair of frame walls, the intermediate portions of said cross slats being supported by said support slats; and (d) slat end supports on said second pair of frame walls supporting the adjacent ends of said cross slats, respectively.