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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7878490 | Damping arrangement for lawn and garden care implement An implement for lawn and garden care includes a housing, a drive, and a handle attached to the housing with a vibration damping arrangement. The damping arrangement includes an at least partially elastic damping element. The stiffness of the damping element is dete... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7314125 | Impact attenuating and spring elements and products containing such elements Impact attenuating/spring systems may include first and second body portions and at least one spring member at least partially included between the body portions. The spring member(s) may substantially enclose and/or be pivotally engaged with the body portion(s). Th... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7254852 | Cushioning device A cushioning device as in a pillow that has a main-body foam which a plurality of projections extend off a surface of the main-body. The projections are arranged in different support characteristic groupings such as rows of different volume or sized projections (e.g... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7222379 | Pillow kit with removable interior cores The pillow kit cover member, which includes substantially identical top and bottom portions, each of which includes inner and outer layers. The top and bottom portions are secured around the peripheries thereof, except for one side, which includes a zipper or simila... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7213280 | Pillow A pillow with ellipsoidal surface configurations between each of a length and a width of a rectangularly shaped peripheral boundary. An elastic frame provides an internal cavity between sidewalls joined by protruding arcuate corners for receiving an elastically disp... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7152343 | Footwear system A footwear system has a sole unit with a number of cavities formed between a midsole and an outsole. The cavities are complementary to one another to form groundward oriented air bulges in the outsole that are connected by a passage formed in the midsole. The passag... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7108252 | Method and apparatus for reducing force transmitted from a base structure to a supported structure A method and apparatus are disclosed for reducing transmission of force from a base structure to a supported structure. The method includes mounting a plurality of dampers between the base structure and the supported structure. Each damper includes a single damping ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7108319 | Air conditioned cushion part for a vehicle seat The invention relates to an upholstered element (1) for a lower seat part (2) and/or a backrest (4) of an air-conditioned motor-vehicle seat (6), comprising an elastic upholstered air-permeable base part (8) and an air-permeable ai... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107235 | Method of conducting business including making and selling a custom article of footwear The present invention teaches a method of conducting retail and Internet business including making and delivering a custom article of footwear. The article of footwear taught in the present invention includes a spring element that can provide improved cushioning, st... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7051389 | Comfort pillow A pillow including a viscoelastic sleeve defining a cavity and filler material positioned within the cavity. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7048243 | Trivet A trivet comprises a pad of thermal insulating material having opposite surfaces from each of which a plurality of uniform height projections extends so as to provide a space between a container supported at one side of the body and a space between the body and the ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7041361 | Web with sealed pockets A web is formed from two sheets of polymeric material. An upper sheet includes pockets of any form. A lower sheet is subsequently bonded to the upper sheet which causes the sealing of each of the pockets. A web thus formed may be laminated with a metallic foil or me... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7016867 | Method of conducting business including making and selling a custom article of footwear The article of footwear taught in the present invention includes a spring element that can provide improved cushioning, stability, and running economy. Unlike the conventional foam materials presently being used by the footwear industry, a preferred spring element i... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7003803 | Shin-guard, helmet, and articles of protective equipment including light cure material The present invention teaches articles of apparel and protective equipment including light-cure materials having a permanent memory capability. Accordingly, the present invention can be used to make shin guards, knee pads, thigh pads, hip pads, rib guards, shoulder ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6994333 | Suspension device for a bed or seat base of the multielement type The invention provides an individual suspension device for a bed or seat base of the multi-element type, the device being for interposing between a platform determining a support surface and a padding element such as a mattress, and comprising a foot for fixing to a... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6969548 | Impact absorbing composite An impact absorbing composite structure (10), the impact absorbing composite structure including a plurality of impact absorbing members (18) and a flexible layer (16), each impact absorbing member (18) integral with the flexible layer ( | 11/29/2005 |
| 6941603 | Cushioning element for mattresses, pillows and the like A cushioning element (1) such as a mattress or a pillow for beds and the like, consisting of a support surface (2) having at least one primary hole (5) provided with at least two portions consecutive to each other in longitudinal section. The po... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6928677 | Therapeutic pillow A pillow includes a pillow base having a top, bottom, front, rear and opposite sides. The base includes first and second compartments defining areas which extend between the opposite sides. A quantity of fill material is disposed within the first compartment. A supp... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6726190 | Slip resistant mat A slip resistant floor mat which incorporates a plurality of support rings, suction cups and openings to resist movement of the floor mat and restrain fluid spills. ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6029962 | Shock absorbing component and construction method A shock absorbing component having a pair of surfaces with a plurality of inwardly extending indentations in the top and bottom surfaces. The indentations extend between the surfaces to provide support members for the shock absorbing component. At least s... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5863032 | Protective cover for staple remover A boot for attachment on both of the opposite ends of a staple remover to cover the proximal end portions of the upper and lower opposing jaw members aft of the hinge point and/or the teeth on the distal end portions of the jaw members. The boot includes ... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5702093 | Shock absorbing device for a bicycle seat A shock absorbing device includes a bracket having a lower portion pivotally engaged with one side portion of a base frame. A supporting base has one end portion pivotally engaged with an upper portion of the bracket. A shock absorbing block is received i... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5246214 | Circumferentially loaded shock-absorbing rubber block A rubber block is shaped as a segment of a circular washer wherein opposite ends of the segment are surfaces against which torsional forces are applied to the blocks. A plurality of hollow ducts extend through the block and all the ducts are parallel to e... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5201489 | Surface bearing and method for its production The invention relates to a surface bearing 1 comprising a rubber strip or plate material penetrated by hollow channels 3 and cavities 2. The cavities 2 and hollow channels 3 all lie in a single surface at least essentially parallel or complementary in sha... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5108077 | Resilient alveolar block for filtering vibrations, intended more particularly for supporting an engine-gear box unit in a vehicle A resilient alveolar block is provided for filtering vibrations, intended particularly to support an engine-gear box unit in a vehicle, wherein, in a rubber or elastomer block (1) cells (4, 5) are provided capable of communicating with the outside through... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5014967 | Spring element In a spring element according to the present invention, all channels formed in the elastomer block are mutually parallel and all cavities formed in the elastomer block, too, which are intersected by said channels, are arranged like a cubic-free-centered s... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4925163 | Spring element The invention relates to a spring element (1) used for elastically supporting large loads. The spring element comprises an elastic rubber block having uniformly distributed spherical cavities (2) which are intersected by clindrical or prismatic channels (... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4627114 | Shock attenuation structure A shock attenuation structure having a breadth greater than its thickness and a breadthwise cross section comprising a series of layers arranged side-by-side. The series of layers comprises a first plurality of layers of shock-absorbing material having a ... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4529248 | Underbody cushioning and ventilating structure and general utility formed plastic sheet A composite underbody cushioning and ventilating structure of general use and especially useful as a seat pad for the occupants of vehicles, formed of two sheet members with padding material between them, one sheet member being of woven, fibrous decorativ... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4139187 | Resilient composite foam cushion A cushion includes a core, a shell surrounding the core, and a flexible membrane interposed between the core and the shell. Both the core and shell are formed from foam material, with the foam material of the core being substantially stiffer upon initial ... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4110881 | Resilient article and method of manufacture Resilient articles, such as, mattresses and cushions of varying yield resistance to accommodate the weight variation of the body and/or to provide edge support are produced by tailoring tensile forces within the article. Tensile force variation may be acc... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4043544 | Reinforced and ventilated seats This disclosure relates to a pad for seats, back rests, mattresses and the like comprising a pad body of plastic material with recess means therein and a covering layer overlying the pad body, strips of reinforcing material sandwiched between the pad body... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4027843 | Universal rocker A rocker provides complex rocking motion by virtue of a volume-compressible foam section sandwiched between two substantially rigid upper and lower plate sections. The upper plate, volume-compressible foam, and lower plate sections are secured to form a s... | 06/07/1977 |
