Patent ID: 7254852

Claim:
A pillow, comprising: a foam main-body, a plurality of foam projections extending off of said foam main-body, said projections being arranged in a laterally central support characteristic zone, an edge support characteristic zone, and at least one laterally intermediate support characteristic zone positioned laterally between said central support characteristic zone and said edge support characteristic zone, and said edge support characteristic zone including a ridge extension, and said at least one intermediate support characteristic zone being comprised of a plurality of independent projections having a lateral width greater than height extension off a supporting upper surface of said main-body, and wherein said ridge extension continuously extends longitudinally across a plurality of said independent projections in said at least one intermediate support characteristic zone, and said independent projections in said at least one intermediate support zone are laterally spaced from said ridge extension by a longitudinally extending exposed region of the upper surface of said main-body, and said central, edge and laterally intermediate support characteristic zones define different support characteristic zones, and wherein said pillow has a maximum height in a central support characteristic zone of said pillow, and said pillow is formed as a monolithic, visco-elastic foam body.