Not All Innersprings Are Created Equally. And These Gold Bond Futons Prove It.
Making Sense Out of All Those Different Springs

HARTFORD (CT.) — There are a myriad of wildly differing claims made by dozens
of futon and mattress manufacturers all over the world, so confusion is a definite result. Here is a look inside three different Gold Bond futons. Each contains a
leading spring style: the Innerspring is one type; a Pocketed (or “encased”) Coil Spring is the other technology.

When Gold Bond is called “world leader”, and “the world’s largest futon maker”, and a “pioneer in the futon industry”, one of the reasons is their incredible depth of knowledge about the very core of the innerspring business, which is the center of the mattress business (which is Gold Bond’s Other Business).

First, let’s sit on Gold Bond’s “Cotton Coil” innerspring futon. It feels as good or better than an expensive sofa. How do they do that? For openers, the core of this futon is a spring system designed exclusively for Gold Bond by the company that makes the insides of some of the best-known sofas in the world. The company is called Holland Maid™. This old-line manufacturer helped Gold Bond develop a special innerspring for the Cotton Coil that essentially retains the fine qualities of the world’s great sofas, and modified it in ways so this particular innerspring could fold out easily into a bed at night.

Now, that does sounds wonderful…but the brilliance is in the details. Each individual spring sits next to an “alternate” spring. When you sit or lie down on these, one turns clockwise and its neighbor (the “alternate”) turns counter-clockwise. Each spring can do this opposite twisting because the engineers left open the top (and bottom) of every coil, which in the innerspring game is known as an “open end” coil… which means each is then free to turn individually. Result: you sit or sleep on the most balanced and stable system possible, yet still enjoy the bounce, buoyancy, and comfort only a spring can deliver.

But! This advanced “alternate open ended” coil system isn’t ready for Gold Bond to put into a futon just yet. First, the whole grid of these springs gets attached (both top and bottom) to a flexible wire lacing system which holds all this in place. The overall system is further designed to fold or roll up with ease. Engineering types at the two companies put their heads together and voila! a super-premium futon in every way.

Now layer in Gold Bond’s own Joy® cotton batting, add a couple more layers of high resiliency foam, some more cotton, and then compress down…whoosh…and double stitch and lace tuft the unit, and put it into the shipping department.

Did you really think making a futon was just sticking some cotton into a big duffel bag and sewing the thing up and calling it a day? Let’s take a look at a second way to make a high-quality innerspring futon:

For Gold Bond’s “Comfort Coil”, their marketing folks wanted to reduce the Cotton Coil costs just a bit. Can it be done? And still retain a great “feel”? Watch this…

Taking a premium innerspring unit from the mattress division and making some modifications, we have a firm, very durable and extremely comfortable innerspring which the technicians will connect up with a tough flexible wire that holds it all together and really provides a firm feel with a lot of flexibility.

Yeah, it’s flexible and firm in its flat bed position, but is it flexible enough…to fold into its seat position? It started life as a big time innerspring for a mattress, right? And they cannot fold a mattress! Easy big fella: Gold Bond was not done. (Sure. Some futon makers appear to have stopped their design work at this point. Here comes the cool Gold Bond part).

Folding the Comfort Coil is made easy because Gold Bond spent hours and weeks redesigning and testing the middle section of this innerspring grid…the part where we’re all going to fold it into its seat position. Test it! Bend it! Flex it! No good. Try another gauge of wire! Test it! Bend it! Try bending it this way! That way! Aha! The boys in the white smocks ultimately came up with two rows of pliable “breakaway-barrel” coils in the area that gets the fold, the “central fold zone” to get technical. Flexibility? Yep, and then some, O futon-loving friends.

Result: a premium innerspring futon that yields the support, sofa-feel, mattress support and yet flexes into a seated futon. Again, add the foam and the cotton layers, put it into the heavy duty cotton twill shell, compress it all, lace-tuft it, and roll it into inventory!

So, those two futons utilized the most famous of the spring systems: the Innerspring. Now let’s get a slightly different feel and support characteristic while we are still in the spring family with the Coil Wrap.

It’s a whole new ballgame! Take a strong, flexible steel spring. Put it in a fabric pocket, thereby “encasing” the coil. It’s now the pocketed coil a k a the encased coil. You’ll see these in conventional mattresses…they are proven winners. A lot of folks love ‘em. Gold Bond does too, but the company likes its own version--B Y F A R--over the pocketed versions they don’t make.

Why? Heat, is why. 600°. That’s six hundred degrees that Gold Bond’s pocketed coils endure before they’ll put ‘em into futons (or mattresses for that matter). What does 600° do, actually? It “heat tempers” each coil. Makes it a Tough Guy, a product under permanent tension…so tough it never shows the strain like those un-fired, un-heat tempered competitor wannabe futons. No sagging futons! No fatigued coils! No collapse under the daily pressures of futon life, which by the way, ain’t easy.

Ask other futon pocket coil makers how many degrees their coils must endure. Six hundred is hot! It works too. Gold Bond feels very strongly: if it is not heat -tempered, well, it is not a Gold Bond pocketed coil component. When you’ve been around the sleep product track for 105 years, like Gold Bond, you’re expected to know this stuff. And Gold Bond really does know their stuff.

Learn more about the 3 Elements of a Futon...

Futon Mattresses: Futons today offer comfort features such as high density foam, polyester batting, and springs
Gold Bond Innerspring | Gold Bond Visco | Gold Bond SofTouch | Gold Bond Wool Wrap

Futon Frames: Many wood style frames are available to support the futon mattress. The frame converts from couch to bed and is available in Bi-Fold, Tri-Fold, Love Seat, Platform Beds or Loungers

Futon Covers: Futon covers allow you the unique opportunity to change your room decor in a matter of minutes by merely changing the futon cover.