Mattress Carrier with Stabilizing Strap and Handles
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Solution Overview
Problem
The transport of mattresses, especially large or oversized ones, is challenging due to their bulkiness and flexibility, often resulting in back strain or injury during handling and movement, and existing solutions are either complex, time-consuming, or expensive to manufacture.
Innovation Solution
A mattress carrier with a rectangular sling design featuring spaced panels, a stabilizing strap, and primary handles made from flexible materials like fabric or plastic, equipped with a quick release buckle for easy attachment and adjustment, allowing for safe and efficient lifting and transport of various mattress sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If mattresses are handled directly without specialized equipment, then no additional device complexity is introduced, but the risk of back injury and strain increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mattress mover device that acts as an intermediary between the mover and the mattress. This device includes a base portion with a recess that receives the mattress, distributing the weight across the entire mattress surface rather than concentrating force on small areas. The device also incorporates handles for safe lifting and a stabilizing strap to secure the mattress during transport, thereby preventing back injury while maintaining simple operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The base portion of the mattress mover is designed with a recess that can flexibly conform to the mattress shape, and the stabilizing strap uses flexible material to wrap around and secure the mattress. This flexibility allows the device to adapt to various mattress sizes and shapes while maintaining secure contact and weight distribution, improving safety without adding complex mechanical structures.
2Reliability
If existing mattress moving devices are used, then injury risk is reduced, but the devices become complicated to use or difficult to attach
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress mover is segmented into distinct functional components: a base portion with recess for mattress reception, handles for lifting, and a stabilizing strap for securing. This segmentation allows each component to be independently designed for optimal performance and simplicity. The base portion directly receives the mattress, the handles provide ergonomic lifting points, and the strap independently secures the load, making the overall device simple to operate and attach.
Solution Approach 2:
The stabilizing strap is designed to wrap around the mattress and secure it through friction and tension alone, without requiring complex fastening mechanisms. The handles are positioned and sized to allow natural grasping and lifting motions. This self-service design enables users to operate the device intuitively without needing to study complex instructions or perform complicated attachment procedures.
3Productivity
If conventional handling methods are used, then no equipment cost is incurred, but time is lost due to frequent setting down and repositioning
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress mover enables continuous transport of the mattress from one location to another without requiring the mover to set down and reposition the mattress repeatedly. The stabilizing strap secures the mattress firmly to the base portion, allowing the mover to maintain a continuous lifting motion even when navigating obstacles like doorways or stairways. This continuity eliminates the time loss associated with frequent stopping and repositioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The device transforms the traditional horizontal dragging or carrying method into a vertical lifting motion. By providing ergonomic handles positioned for natural arm extension and a base that distributes weight, the device enables the mover to lift the mattress vertically and maintain this position during transport. This dimensional change from horizontal to vertical movement allows for more efficient and continuous transport, especially through doorways and stairways.
4Adaptability or versatility
If periphery handles on mattresses are used, then flipping is enabled, but these handles cannot provide adequate support for transporting the mattress
Solution Approach 1:
The mattress mover serves as an intermediary that provides the necessary transport support that the mattress's own handles cannot provide. The device's base portion with recess receives the entire mattress, distributing weight across the full surface area. The stabilizing strap wraps around the mattress to provide additional securing force. This intermediary structure enables both safe transport and, if needed, flipping operations, since the device itself bears the load rather than relying on the mattress handles.
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AI summary
The present invention is a mattress carrier comprising a generally rectangular shaped sling having spaced apart front and back opposed panels, spaced apart end panels, and a bottom end forming an interior cavity having a closed bottom and sides with an open upper portion for receiving a mattress to be transported. A stabilizing strap having a first portion securely attached to the back panel and a second portion securely attached to front panel. A pair of primary handles is fixed to the upper portions of the spaced apart side panels for lifting and carrying the mattress carrier.