Bedsheet-Tucking Device

Abstract

A handheld, paddle-shaped device with an elongate, flexible shaft that facilitates tucking bedcovers beneath a mattress. The elongate, flexible shaft facilitates reaching across a mattress to a mattress corner in order to tuck a sheet beneath the far corner of the mattress.

1 . An apparatus for tucking a bed sheet comprising:
 a proximal end and a distal end; and   a flat-spring flexible shaft having a first end and a second end; and   a handle at said proximal end fixedly engaged with the first end of said flat-spring flexible shaft; and   a concave paddle fixedly engaged with the second end of said flat-spring flexible shaft; wherein   holding the apparatus by the handle at the proximal end and placing the concave paddle downward and under a folded corner of a sheet, and moving the apparatus laterally toward a corner of a mattress, the flat-spring flexible shaft bends perpendicular to the mattress surface to direct said concave paddle along the mattress corner, toward the bottom of said corner, and said sheet will be moved and tucked under said mattress as the apparatus moves, flexes, retracts and unflexes.   
     
     
         2 . The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein said concave paddle is comprised of a substantially uniform thickness. 
     
     
         3 . The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein the apparatus further comprises a central plane about which the apparatus is symmetrical. 
     
     
         4 . The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein said concave paddle terminates at the distal end in a curved tip; and
 in cross-section, the slope of a tangent to the surface changes between 60°-90°.