Denise E Ryan, 679735 Amberwood Ct, Loveland, OH 45140

5819348, Oct 13, 1998

Aug 15, 1996

8/698024

Denise Ryan - New York NY

A47C 2718

5735

A modular, adjustable maternity mattress designed to accommodate a pregnant woman at rest in a prone or side lying position; comprised of a sectioned base cushion and corresponding relocatable upper cushions as a head cushion, an inflatable abdominal cushion, and a leg cushion. The sectioned base cushion is shaped as a thin conventional mattress and is slightly longer than the overall length of the head, inflatable abdominal, and leg cushions joined end to end. The head and leg cushions are thick, flat, and generally squared, with wedge shaped medial ends (relative to the centrally located inflatable abdominal cushion) that slope downward and inward towards the base cushion and inflatable abdominal cushion respectively. In the preferred embodiment, the inflatable abdominal cushion is composed of a series of vertically tiered independently inflatable cells, the overall lengths of which increase as they ascend, and each cell having an inflator inlet and deflator outlet. The inflatable abdominal cushion, having contours that conform to the medial ends of the head and leg cushions where they interface otherwise contacts the base cushion surface, therefore having no lateral boundaries.