TODAY’S PATENT – BOX SPRING ASSEMBLY

Conventional bed foundations or “box springs” comprise of wooden bed frame which are supported through coil springs. Often customers demand a rigid or less flexible bed foundation. In today’s patent, we will discuss about John Thomas King’s invention “Box spring assembly” (US4012801A), which was patented by the USPTO n 22^nd March 1977.

The present invention relates to bedding and so-called “box springs” used for the supporting the bed mattresses. These box springs are expensive because of the increasing cost of the coils. There has to be a resistance maintained in order to make the bed mattress comfortable.

The primary objective of this invention is to provide an improved box spring which has an increased rigidity over the conventional coil springs and is less expensive to produce.