Parker's Mattress Factory Stores - All about mattresses

Air Bed
Bed Frame or Bed Base/Frame
Bed Rails
Body Impressions
Bonnell Coil
Border Rod
Box Spring
Bunkie
Bunkie Board
California King
Cambrick
Center Rail
Channel Quilt
Clipped Border Rod
Coil Count — Number of coils in the mattress or box spring.
Coils
Comfort Layers
Cone-Shaped Coil
Continuous Coil
Continuous Quilt
Cover
Crown — Convex surface that is higher in the middle than in the sides; used in some mattresses.
Cushioning
Damask Cover
Density — It is a measure of weight and it is unrelated to firmness. It is the most significant factor in the quality of a foam and a very significant factor in the quality of a mattress. The higher the density, the longer the durability and resilience and support of the mattress.
Double Bed
Double Extra Long
Eliocel
Fatigue
Felt
Fiber
Filler
Firmness or Surface firmness Resistance to compression near the surface of a mattress. It is measured by the surface Indentation Force Deflection (IFD) measurement. Deep down firmness is the IFD under severe compression.
Flanging
Flipping/Rotating
Foam Factory is the place where they manufacture foam products for foam mattresses
Foam Padding material used in mattresses, including latex, polyurethane and viscoelastic or memory foam.
Foundation
Full Extra Long
Garnetting
Gauge
Grid
Helical Wire
Hinged King
Hog Ring
ILD Initial Load Deflection. A measure for the firmness level of foam.
Inner Quilt
Inner Tufting
Innerspring Unit
Insulator
King
Knit
Lacing Wire
Latex
Mattress
Mattress Handles
Migration
Multi-Needle Quilt
Offset Coil
Platform Foundation
Pillow Top
Pocketing
Posturized
Pressure Points
Queen
Quilting
Resiliency Ability of the spring, foam, fabric or fiber to spring back to its original form. It is also known as bounciness or elasticity.
Ride Reserve "springiness" and ease of vertical movement that a mattress has when a user is lying on it. When sleeping, the user's body moves subtly with every breath. A "bottomed out" mattress doe not easily move with the sleeper, causing aches after some time.
Roll-Together When a defective or worn out mattress sags in the center and causes the body of the sleeper to want to roll towards the center of the mattress.
Rotating Turning a mattress 180 degrees so that the head of the bed becomes the foot.
Sagging
Slats
Smooth Top
Split Queen Box
Spring Wire
Support
Support factor Ratio of the deep down IFD to the surface of a mattress. Very important measure of the resistance to bottoming out under sustained downward pressure.
Tack and Jump
Tape edge or Mattress tape — It is a special fabric used to hide the seam where the pieces of ticking are sewn together. It works best when it provides a seamless and coordinating finish to the mattress.
Tempering/Stress Relief
Thermally-Bonded Cotton
Topper Pad
Twin
Twin Extra Long
Tufting
Upholstery Layers This includes all the soft layers of a mattress, such as insulators, covers and quilts.
Ventilator
Viscoelastic foam