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  2. Mattress - Wikipedia

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    A grid-top foundation bed base is a type of bed foundation that features a grid-like structure made of metal or wood slats. The slats are spaced apart to provide support for a mattress and improve airflow to keep the mattress cool and dry.

  3. Bed base - Wikipedia

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    A bed base, sometimes called a foundation, is the part of a bed that supports the mattress. The bed base can itself be held in place and framed by the bedstead ( bed frame ). In the United States, box-spring bed bases are very common (to the point where 'bed base' and 'box spring' may be used synonymously, and the term "platform bed" is used ...

  4. Futon - Wikipedia

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    Mattress toppers are generally structurally similar to futons, are often made of similar materials, and (in the case of twin-bed toppers) have similar dimensions. Note the tufting. Museum samples demonstrating a 1590s bed : the bedcords , bedmat, three tick mattresses in dun and striped ticking , and the bedlinen.

  5. Bed - Wikipedia

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    A daybed is a couch that is used as a seat by day and as a bed by night. Usually it has pop up trundle which is used as bed in the night. A futon is a traditional style of Japanese bed using a mattress on a wooden frame. Futons are also available in a larger Western style which can fold halfway for sitting.

  6. Bed frame - Wikipedia

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    Hospital bed frames. A bed frame [1] or bedstead [2] is the part of a bed used to position the bed base, the flat part which in turn directly supports the mattress(es). The frame may also stop the mattress from sliding sideways, and it may include means of supporting a canopy above.

  7. Bed (geology) - Wikipedia

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    The Law of Original Horizontality states that beds are deposited horizontally due to gravity. If the beds are not horizontal, then that is an indication that they have been tilted or warped by geologic processes. [21] The Law of Lateral Continuity states that the bed deposits extend laterally in all directions. This implies that two places ...

  8. Sarah E. Goode - Wikipedia

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    Patent issued to Sarah E. Goode for the folding bed cabinet Born in 1855 in Toledo , Ohio to Oliver and Harriet (Kaufman) Jacobs, Goode was originally named Sarah Elisabeth Jacobs. [ 2 ] When she was young, her father worked as a waiter, and her mother kept the house. [ 3 ]

  9. Waterbed - Wikipedia

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    It looks like a conventional bed and is designed to fit existing bedroom furniture. The platform usually looks like a conventional foundation or box spring, and sits atop a reinforced metal frame. Early waterbed mattresses, and many inexpensive modern mattresses, have a single water chamber.