Hi Minnesota,
There are quite a number of companies with “American Bedding” in their name but if the name on your law tag is “American Bedding Industries” and they were in Columbus, OH then it sounds like one of the Spring Air licensees before their bankruptcy. You can see the Wikipedia article here which says …
[quote]Merger with Consolidated Bedding
In 2007 The Spring Air Company merged with Consolidated Bedding, Inc. of Tampa, FL, Spring Air’s largest licensee and simultaneously acquired six other Spring Air licensees operating eight mattress manufacturing facilities in the United States. The unified Company will employ 1,150 employees in 14 locations,including its headquarters facility that will remain in the Chicago area. The merger will solidify Spring Air’s position as the leading value “S” brand on every retail floor. The acquired manufacturing facilities are in: Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Chelsea, MA (Boston); Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ; St. Louis, MO; Salt Lake City, UT; and Lacey, WA (Seattle). They will join Consolidated Bedding’s existing facilities in: Columbus, OH; Carrollton, TX (Dallas); City of Industry, CA (Los Angeles); New Brunswick, NJ; and Tampa, FL.
H.I.G. Capital LLC, a leading global private equity investment firm with more than $4 billion of equity capital under management, provided the equity funding for the transaction. H.I.G. began a relationship with Spring Air in 2005 when it funded the merger of American Bedding Industries and Spring Air Partners, the two largest Spring Air licensees.
In May 2009 the company that owned the Spring Air name - Consolidated Bedding - went bankrupt.
The Spring Air Name was then purchased by E&E Bedding and turned into Spring Air International.[1][/quote]
… so you may not be able to solve the mystery of what is inside your mattress.
They are a retailer that carries Restonic mattresses … not a manufacturer that sells factory direct to the public. In other words they don’t make their own mattresses.
Almost all mattresses will have more than an inch of foam or other comfort materials above the support core and yes I would want to make sure that out of all the layers that no more than “about an inch or so” of them were either unknown quality or low quality materials (see post #4 here). It doesn’t matter how much higher quality materials there are because they wouldn’t be the weak link.
This would be a matter of testing a mattress that felt softer to you and still didn’t have more than an inch of lower quality or unknown materials in the upper layers of the mattress. It may have softer comfort layers or thicker comfort layers (both of which would feel softer for most people) than another mattress that was too firm for you but the way to know whether it feels softer for you is to test it. Once you have confirmed that it’s softer and is a good match for you in terms of PPP then you can check the materials to make sure they are good quality/density and that it doesn’t have any weak links. In most cases the salesperson at the store would know which mattresses they carry would feel softer or firmer than another one you have tested.
In other words … a mattress that is softer or a mattress that is firmer can both use good quality materials because any type of material comes in softer or firmer versions and thicker layers of material will also feel softer for most people than thinner layers of the same material.
Phoenix