How Important Is It To Test Mattress Hardness? Jun 24, 2021
How important is it to test mattress hardness?

The first thing people care about when buying a mattress is the mattress hardness. We all want to have a good night’s sleep and wake up feeling refreshed. But some are not so lucky. Physical complaints and a lack of rest during sleep are just two of the potential consequences of an unsuitable mattress firmness. So it need Find the right firmness for your mattress.

Therefore, when making mattresses, the softness and hardness of the mattress should be specially considered, which is an important factor affecting sales. So in the process of making, must test the mattress.

1. The mattress type

The firmness rating of a mattress depends on various factors, including the type. For example, mattresses can be made of viscoelastic foam, cold foam or latex or have inner springs.

2. Why we need to testing the Mattress hardness?

Mattress Hardness Testing Equipment is used to evaluate the firmness of the mattresses, which is applied to laboratory test and quality control in production line. The applicable range: foam products, mattress manufacturing, car seat manufacturers and other industries.

3. How does the Mattress Hardness Testing Machine work?

a. Universal hardness and hardness measurements are based on a physical property called indentation force deflection. The hardness is calculated by determining the ratio of the thickness after being compressed and the original circular indentation force. The computer receives the signal from the sensor and record the extent of indentation when the platen stresses on the specimen. In order to compare the test results,the size and thickness of specimens must be the same.

b. There is also spring fatigue test, which is suitable for durability test under long-term repetitive load and mattress compression deformation. This is also a very important test for testing mattresses.

Gester offer some high quality Mattress Hardness Testing Equipment Computer control Testers:


A. Mattress Comprehensive Performance Tester GT-LA08



Mattress Comprehensive Performance Tester is the newest design mattress comprehensive performance tester according to EN 1957 and EN 1725 standard.

In general, the machine is configured with the following four test functions:



B. ASTM F1566 Mattress Impact Drop Tester GT-LA01


The Mattress impact drop tester is widely used to determine and assess the impact resistance of built-in and box-type mattress, to evaluate sofa and mattress sustaining rapid drop on seat or jumping stress ability.


C. Mattress Spring Fatigue Tester/Cornell Tester GT-LA03



Mattress Spring Fatigue Tester/ Cornell Tester is applied to test the endurance capacity under the long-term repetitive load and the compression deformation for the mattress.Accord with the standard ASTM F 1566.

With sofa Cornell fatigue life test method, motor drive eccentric wheel, adjust the impacting height of the impact block, then impact the testing mattress by 120-160 times / min, counter measures the impacting times, shut down automatically when reaches the setting times.



D. Mattress Hardness Tester GT-LA04


Mattress hardness tester is used to evaluate the firmness of the instrument.It is widely applied to foam products, mattress manufacturing, car seat manufacturers and other industries,which is used to laboratory test and quality control in production line.

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