Provisional application No. 62/487,609, filed on Apr. 20, 2017
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: A47G 9/10 (20130101); A47G 9/1081 (20130101); A47G 9/109 (20130101); A47G 9/1054 (20130101); A47G 2009/1018 (20130101)
Current International Class: A47G 9/10 (20060101)
The anti-wrinkle/anti-snoring/therapeutic foam pillow allows the user to sleep comfortably while smoothing out or protecting facial skin to suspend fine lines and wrinkles, reduce snoring and prevent clenched jaw. This is achieved by using the specially designed pillow along with the help of gravity.
The market is flooded with all sorts of anti-ageing/anti-snoring/therapeutic products, and in my experience, all with disappointing results. This led me to invent a simple pillow that uses the rhythmic nightly sleep cycle with the power of gravity to obtain the desired result.
The anti-wrinkle/anti-snoring/therapeutic foam pillow accommodates sleep in a more comfortable way for each type of sleep position (prone, supine and side). It does this by utilizing its unique design of a hole in the center 30 and sloping sides 40.
The hole in the center 30 permeates the pillow from the upper surface 10 to the lower surface 20 and permits the face to rest gently facing downward for the prone sleeper, upward for the back sleeper and on one's side.
The hole in the center 30 permits the user to sleep on their front without having to turn the neck to the side causing neck pain. Sleeping on one's front in this way also smooths out fine lines and wrinkles by gripping the entire perimeter of the face and causing the skin to gently pull outward.
The hole in the center 30 creates a head cradle that does not permit the user's head to waver off to one side or the other while sleeping on their back and allows for a manner of sleeping in which facial skin does not come in contact with the pillow thus reducing any nocturnally caused friction causing facial creases.
The hole in the center 30 is of ample size to accommodate long hair when pulled back allowing the user to sleep more comfortably on their back while keeping the hair away from tangling surfaces.
This hole in the center 30 accommodates the user's ear when side sleeping on the upper surface 10 permitting the user to sleep more comfortably.
The sloping sides 40 accommodate for sleeping on one's side while smoothing out the skin around the forehead, eyes, nose, cheeks, jaw and mouth. With the side of the face positioned near the top of a sloping side 40, gravity gently pulls the face downward toward the vertical side panel 50 while the skin remains in the same position so that the skin is pulled taut.
Using the sloping sides 40 also helps breathing and reduces snoring by spreading the nasal cavities on that side.
Using the sloping sides 40 can also reduce clenched jaw by putting pressure on the joint so that it cannot tighten and permit teeth grinding and temporomandibular disorder (TMD).
The neck rest 80 is a curved recess that along with the hole in the center 30 keeps the head in place, neck supported and spine aligned when in the supine position. It does this by gently keeping the face facing upwards so that one's neck does not turn to the side causing neck pain.
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