A medical head support having a variety of uses in hospitals and the like. The head support is formed from a flexible open cell foam material, and includes a base portion for resting on a supporting surface and a pair of pads fixedly mounted on the base portion. An upper minor portion of the pads and the base are provided with an open cell foam material which is soft and finer, i.e., has a greater number of cells per square inch, than the remainder of the material of the pads and base.

A power transformer having its main high-power windings encapsulated in a cast body of epoxy resin is filled with a dielectric cooling liquid having a boiling point slightly above the normal full load operating temperature of the cast coil assembly. To enhance cooling of the coil by the ambient liquid heat-conducting pins embedded in the windings extend to the outer surface of the coil assembly and have exposed surface areas sufficiently small to exceed the vaporization temperature of the liquid...

Disclosed are resiliently compressible pillows adapted to support a temple and a facial cheek of one of the symmetrical sides of a person's head who is reclining hemiside upon one upper-arm against a sleeping bed or other horizontal reclining surface. Noteworthy pillow contours include a facerest, a longitudinal channel to accommodate the person's shoulder and including a chin-restraint at the channel leading-end on the pillow front-wing, and a pillow frontal contoured cutaway to leave the subje...

An improved sleep training pillow designed to train a person to sleep in a position to prevent snoring, the sleep training pillow comprising a head support platform that has a pillow support surface and a face support surface. The face support surface has a high end and a low end, and the face support surface is inclined downwardly from the high end to the low end at an angle of incline relative to the pillow support surface. The head support platform has a relief cavity near the low end thereof...

An infant safety pillow of molded plastic with side walls, and a rear wall molded integrally with a gently inclined central perforated surface joined to the walls by a rolled shoulder. The base of the wall have spaced openings in their lower edges. A sponge rubber strip runs between the left and right side walls along the lower face of the front edge of the perforate surface.

The present invention solves a possible contributing cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. A body support pad has a support portion and a pillow portion. The support portion is removably connected to the pillow portion. The pillow portion provides ventilation to the infant. The pillow portion has a thin outer sheet permeable to the passage of air. The pillow portion also keeps the head of the infant in healthy repose. The interior of the pillow is subdivided into an upper portion containing a p...

A pillow includes a first main face having an essentially planar main surface. This planar main surface includes a head receiving recess. The second main face of the pillow, located opposite the first main face, includes a plurality of extending fingers arranged in rows, wherein the fingers extend such that a base of the finger is located closer to the first main face than is the tip (or free end) of that finger. The fingers are of a length such that the finger tips essentially lie on a common p...

A safety pillow assembly is provided for use by an infant to prevent suffocation of the infant when lying in a face down position thereon. The pillow assembly includes a hollow, rigid core having spaced-apart top and bottom walls defining an air reservoir. A multiplicity of openings are formed in the core for allowing substantially unobstructed passage of air into and out of the reservoir. An air-permeable, cushioning sleeve encloses the core and provides a soft comfortable surface to cushion th...

The pillow (10) comprises a body (12) made of an elastically deformable material provided with a top side (14) upon which the head of a user can be rested, and an underside (16) for being placed upon a pillow support. The top side (14) is joined to the underside (16) by at least one shoulder side (18, 18b). Said shoulder side is provided with a shoulder cut-out (20A, 20B) that forms an opening for the cervical vertebrae of the user when he is lying on his back, and forms an accommodating space f...

A pillow that has a channel which extends from one end toward a second end and which has a wall defined from a head-supporting surface of the pillow toward a bottom of the pillow. The wall of the channel is located adjacent to the second end of the pillow. The channel allows sound to reach a user's ear that is located in the channel while the user lies his or her head on the pillow.