Patent ID: 6874215

Claim:
A method of making a pillow-top mattress, said method comprising steps of precutting miter notches along at least one edge of a core border strip at intervals determined according to the size of the mattress being produced, precutting miter notches along one edge of a strip of pillow top border material at the same intervals as in the pillow top border, attaching a flexible reinforcing flange to both one edge of the pillow top strip and one edge of the core strip, leaving one edge of the pillow top strip free, and joining edges of the miter notches together for form a combined border strip having preformed mitered corners, pulling the combined border strip over a mattress core, placing pillow top padding on at least one side of the core, placing a pillow top panel over the padding, and sewing the pillow top panel at its periphery to the free edge of the pillow top border.