Patent ID: 7178182

Claim:
A suspended sleeping bag ( 1 ; 31 ) with a top and a bottom section ( 2 , 3 ; 30 ) and with attaching elements at head and foot ends ( 18 , 20 ) that converge toward each other in a region of a gathering point ( 17 , 19 ) at each of the head and the foot ends ( 18 , 20 ), particularly in the form of ropes ( 4 , 5 ), cords, tapes, pieces cut from a web of fabric, or another tear-resistant material, for the purpose of attachment at two mutually spaced apart attachment points ( 46 , 47 ), the bottom section ( 3 ; 30 ), unlike the top section ( 2 ), absorbing tensile forces in a longitudinal direction and conveying them to the attachment points ( 46 , 47 ) along lines that converge in an approximately ray-like manner in the region of one or the other of the gathering or attachment points, wherein (a) the bottom section ( 3 ; 30 ) of the sleeping bag is so cut to shape and the a length or cut shape of the attaching elements ( 4 , 5 ) is so calculated that a line extending along a periphery of the bottom section ( 3 ; 30 ) of the sleeping bag from one gathering point ( 17 ) to the other gathering point ( 19 ) is shorter than a line extending (roughly) centrally along or through the bottom section ( 3 ; 30 ) of the sleeping bag between said gathering points ( 17 , 19 ); and (b) the top section ( 2 ) of the sleeping bag is connected to lateral edges of the bottom section ( 3 ; 30 ) of the sleeping bag.