Ex Parte Wells - Page 11




               Appeal No. 2003-0858                                                                         Page 11                   
               Application No. 09/557,509                                                                                             


               to one another and in which the pockets 42 are closed by a longitudinal seam 44 of a                                   
               similar thermal weld.                                                                                                  


                       After the rows or strips of pocketed coil springs 22 are secured together by                                   
               securement of side surfaces 54, 56 to side surfaces of adjacent strips and a sufficient                                
               number of those strips have been adhered together to extend for the full width of a                                    
               mattress, the spring interior 21 is completed by securement of the border wires 25 on                                  
               the top and bottom edges of the spring interior 21.  Thereafter, the mattress 20 is                                    
               completed by placement of the pads 19 over the top and bottom surfaces of the spring                                   
               interior 21, and the complete spring interior, including the pads, are encased within                                  
               conventional ticking or upholstered covering material.                                                                 


                       Figures 3 and 4 illustrate a second embodiment of Long's invention.  This                                      
               embodiment is identical to the embodiment of Figures 1 and 2, except that it includes,                                 
               as a part of the spring interior 21', foam pads or foam plies 60 positioned between each                               
               of the strips 22 of pocketed springs and adhered or otherwise secured to the sidewalls                                 
               54, 56 of the strips.  In this embodiment, each ply of foam material extends for the full                              
               length of the strip and is of the approximately the same height as the transverse                                      
               dimension of the strip.  In one preferred embodiment, the strip is approximately three                                 
               centimeters in thickness, but this dimension may be varied depending upon the desired                                  








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