A bed bug protection device for protecting humans, animals and objects from crawling pests such as bed bugs. The device includes a top component for contacting the top surface of bedding such as a mattress or box spring. The top component includes barrier material suitable for preventing pests from
A bed bug protection device for protecting humans, animals and objects from crawling pests such as bed bugs. The device includes a top component for contacting the top surface of bedding such as a mattress or box spring. The top component includes barrier material suitable for preventing pests from biting humans or animals resting on the bedding. The device further includes a fitted side skirt joined to the periphery of the top component that hinders bed bugs and similar pests from climbing up the covered bedding and gaining access to humans, animals, or objects resting atop the bedding. The device may be part of a system including pillow protectors, headboard and/or footboard protectors for preventing contact by traditional bed coverings with walls or bed structures that may be infested by bed bugs.
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1. A bedding arrangement comprising a bed covering device adapted to cover a mattress having a top surface and a side wall appended to a perimeter edge of the top surface and arranged to extend downwardly away from the top surface, the bed covering device including a top component adapted to contact
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A bedding arrangement comprising a bed covering device adapted to cover a mattress having a top surface and a side wall appended to a perimeter edge of the top surface and arranged to extend downwardly away from the top surface, the bed covering device including a top component adapted to contact and cover the top surface of a mattress covered by the bed covering device and a skirt adapted to surround a side wall of a mattress and configured to include an interior surface facing inwardly toward the side wall of a mattress covered by the bed covering device and an exterior surface facing outwardly away from the side wall of a mattress covered by the bed covering device, wherein the exterior surface of the skirt is a substantially slippery, low friction surface sufficient to block upward traversal of bed bugs along the exterior surface to reach the top component upon placement of the exterior surface in a substantially vertical orientation alongside the side wall of a mattress covered by the bed covering device;a mattress covered by the bed covering device;a box spring underlying and supporting the mattress along an interface defined therebetween, and the skirt of the bed covering device is tucked to extend into the interface provided between a bottom of the mattress and a top of the box spring and arranged to drape at least partially over the side wall of the box spring and form an outwardly opening sheet receiver located between the mattress and the box spring; anda bedding sheet covering the mattress with all ends terminating within the outwardly opening sheet receiver. 2. The bedding arrangement of claim 1, wherein the top component and skirt cooperate to form a unitary member made of a barrier material configured to prevent passage of needle-like mouthparts of bed begs therethrough so that bed bugs cannot penetrate the top component and the skirt. 3. The bedding arrangement of claim 1, wherein the top component is made of a barrier material configured to prevent passage of needle-like mouthparts of bed bugs therethrough so that bed bugs cannot penetrate the top component. 4. The bedding arrangement of claim 3, wherein a periphery of the top component is bonded to the skirt to produce a smooth seam between the top component and the skirt that renders scaling of the skirt to reach the top component prohibitive to bed bugs. 5. The bedding arrangement of claim 3, wherein the barrier material comprises a porous material including at least one layer having pores smaller than the needle-like mouthparts of bed bugs. 6. The bedding arrangement of claim 3, wherein the barrier material comprises a non-porous material. 7. The bedding arrangement of claim 6, wherein the barrier material further comprises a porous material arranged to overlie the non-porous material. 8. The bedding arrangement of claim 3, wherein a periphery of the top component is joined to the skirt by a continuously sewn seam. 9. The bedding arrangement of claim 8, wherein any excess barrier material included in the top component and used to produce the seam is directed toward the inner surface of the skirt. 10. The bedding arrangement of claim 1, wherein the skirt includes, in series, an endless upper portion appended to the top component and placed in a vertical orientation alongside a side wall of the mattress, an endless upper tuck layer coupled to the endless upper portion along a first fold line and arranged to lie between the mattress and the box spring, an endless lower tuck layer coupled to the endless upper tuck layer along a second fold line and arranged to lie between the upper tuck layer and the box spring, and an endless downwardly depending portion coupled to the endless lower tuck layer along a third fold line and placed in a vertical orientation alongside a side wall of the box spring, and exterior surfaces of the endless upper and lower tuck layers cooperate to form the outwardly opening sheet receiver lying between the mattress and the box spring for receiving and retaining a peripheral portion of the bedding sheet placed on the top component of the bed covering device to establish a continuous barrier along the peripheral portion of the bedding sheet preventing access of bed bugs extant on at least one of the mattress and the box spring to the bedding sheet. 11. The bedding arrangement of claim 10, wherein the skirt includes a top edge appended to the top component and a bottom edge arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the top edge when the bed covering device is arranged to cover the mattress, the skirt has a length that is equal to a shortest distance between the top and bottom edges when the skirt is arranged to hang downwardly from the top component without being tucked into a space provided between the mattress and the box spring, and the length of the skirt is at least about twice the height of the side wall of the mattress. 12. The bedding arrangement of claim 1, wherein a horizontal length of the endless upper tuck is about equal to a horizontal length of the endless lower tuck. 13. The bedding arrangement of claim 1, wherein the skirt is arranged to envelop the mattress and the box spring. 14. The bedding arrangement of claim 13, further comprising elastic or a draw string coupled to the skirt for securing the skirt against a bottom of the box spring. 15. The bedding arrangement of claim 1, wherein the skirt includes a top edge appended to the top component and a bottom edge arranged to lie below and in spaced-apart relation to the top edge when the bed covering device is placed on the mattress to cover the mattress and the bed covering device further includes sheet-suspension means external of the skirt for suspending the bedding sheet placed on the top component above the bottom edge of the skirt to locate lower edges of the bedding sheet away from the skirt. 16. The bedding arrangement of claim 15, wherein the sheet-suspension means includes a strap fixed to the exterior surface of the skirt and arranged to lie between the top and bottom edges of the skirt. 17. The bedding arrangement of claim 15, wherein the sheet-suspension means includes a ring affixed to a corner of the skirt through which a bunched sheet is inserted. 18. The bedding arrangement of claim 1, further comprising a pillow-receiver coupled to the top component for receiving a pillow to block such pillow from contacting an adjacent headboard or wall. 19. A bedding arrangement comprising bedding having a top surface and a side wall appended to a perimeter edge of the top surface and arranged to extend downwardly away from the top surface;a bed covering device including a top component contacting and covering the top surface of the bedding and a skirt surrounding the side wall of the bedding and configured to include an interior surface facing inwardly toward the side wall of the bedding and an exterior surface facing outwardly away from the side wall of the bedding, wherein the exterior surface of the skirt is a substantially slippery, low friction surface sufficient to block upward traversal of bed bugs along the exterior surface to reach the top component upon placement of the exterior surface in a substantially vertical orientation alongside the side wall of the bedding, wherein the top component is made of a barrier material configured to prevent the passage of needle-like mouthparts of bed bugs therethrough so that bed bugs cannot penetrate the top component;a mattress covered by the bed covering device;a box spring underlying and supporting the mattress along an interface defined therebetween, wherein the skirt of the bed covering device is tucked to extend into the interface provided between a bottom of the mattress and a top of the box spring and arranged to drape at least partially over the side wall of the box spring and form an outwardly opening sheet receiver located between the mattress and the box spring; anda bedding sheet covering the mattress with ends terminating within the outwardly opening sheet receiver. 20. A bedding arrangement comprising: a mattress;a box spring underlying and supporting the mattress and defining an external interface therebetween;a bed covering device having a slippery, low friction external surface sufficient to block traversal of bed bugs upon the external surface when vertically oriented, wherein the bed covering device covers the mattress and depends downwardly away from a top surface of the mattress, and wherein a portion of the bed covering device forms an outwardly opening sheet receiver along the entire external interface having a top portion adjacent a bottom surface of the mattress, a bottom portion adjacent a top surface of the box spring and an inner portion spaced from the external interface connecting the top and bottom portions, and a portion of the bed covering device depends downwardly from the outwardly opening sheet receiver; anda bedding sheet covering the mattress and the bed covering device with ends terminating between the top portion and the bottom portion of the outwardly opening sheet receiver. 21. The bedding arrangement of claim 20, further comprising a head frame connected to the bed covering device, the head frame comprising: a single panel head structure having a shell shape that is positioned above the top surface of the mattress and curved toward a center of the mattress; anda head web attached to the head structure and made of a material having a slippery, low friction surface sufficient to block upward traversal of bed bugs along a surface of the head web. 22. The bedding arrangement of claim 21, wherein the head structure is formed of a wire and the shell shape forms a continuous three dimensional curve.
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