Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
111<br />
LFK: An unknotted offset coil<br />
with a cylindrical or columnar<br />
shape.<br />
Link fabric: A wire foundation<br />
for bedsprings, cots, studio<br />
couches, sofabed mechanisms<br />
and gliders. So called because<br />
the fabric is a succession of<br />
metal links.<br />
Marshall: A type of innerspring<br />
construction in which thin gauge,<br />
barrel-shaped, knotless coils are<br />
encased in fabric pockets. Also<br />
known as “pocketed coils.”<br />
Mattress: A manufactured product<br />
to sleep on, consisting of various<br />
resilient materials covered with an<br />
outer ticking. Comes from the Arabic<br />
term “matrah” meaning to throw<br />
down. Early Arabs traveled with<br />
their bedding and threw it down on<br />
the ground or floor at night.<br />
Memory: The ability of tempered<br />
steel, foam or some fabrics to<br />
return to their original state after<br />
being compressed or stretched.<br />
Mesh: Plastic netting generally<br />
stretched across the face of an<br />
innerspring unit as an insulator.<br />
Microcoils: A low-profile metal<br />
spring unit, typically with individually<br />
wrapped coils, used in the top<br />
comfort layers of a mattress.<br />
Molded foam core (for mattresses):<br />
A core made of flexible foam<br />
is made in molds and used as the<br />
main support system in a foam<br />
mattress.<br />
Mounting: Attachment of a box<br />
spring unit to a wood or metal<br />
frame.<br />
Needlepunched fabric: A manufacturing<br />
process for which high<br />
strength, lightweight, non-woven<br />
construction fabrics are produced.<br />
These fabrics are produced by<br />
garnetting fibers, entangling or<br />
inner-locking these fibers together<br />
by a series of needles and<br />
then mechanically bonding or<br />
fusing them together via heat to<br />
produce a fabric without glue or<br />
binders.<br />
Needlepunched pad: A manufacturing<br />
process used to produce<br />
insulator pads and non-woven<br />
fabrics whereby loose, garnetted<br />
fibers are inner-locked by a<br />
series of “needles.” This process<br />
usually requires additional bonding<br />
to keep the fibers in place.<br />
Offset coils: An hourglass type<br />
coil on which portions of the top<br />
and bottom convolutions have<br />
been flattened. In assembling<br />
the innerspring unit, these flat<br />
segments of wire are hinged<br />
together with helicals.<br />
Orthopedic: Generalized term to<br />
imply set gives proper postural<br />
alignment and support. Should<br />
not necessarily mean hard or<br />
board feeling. Proper support<br />
with a degree of comfort to contour<br />
to the body is best.<br />
Panel: The part of the ticking<br />
that constitutes the top sleep<br />
surface of a mattress, as well as<br />
the bottom of a mattress on a
Change language