Patent ID: 8776292

Claim:
A pillow comprising a pillow body of resilient, cushioning, material having top and bottom surfaces joined by an encircling side surface; a sound transmitting passageway extending through the pillow body from a passageway inlet in the side surface of the body to a passageway outlet in the top surface of the body; the passageway having an inlet section, leading from the passageway inlet to terminate in an inlet section outlet, within the pillow body, and an outlet section, generally of the same cross-sectional area as the inlet section outlet, leading from the inlet section outlet to the passageway outlet; the inlet section shaped to provide an exponential horn that expands exponentially from the inlet section outlet to the passageway inlet to clarify and amplify the sound passing through the passageway from the passageway inlet to the outlet section and to the passageway outlet, the clarified and amplified sound able to Pass directly to an ear of a pillow user placed on the top surface of the pillow over the passageway outlet in the top surface of the pillow.