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  • [Cambry] This is our new mattress. (Laughter)

  • [Zack] It might not look like a mattress just yet. But 30 years ago, two brothers, one of

  • which was a rocket scientist, invented a new material that was specifically designed for

  • medical beds and seat cushions for wheelchairs.

  • [Cambry] A wheelchair user is sitting all the time, so if the cushion is too hard it

  • can start to damage the skin.

  • [Zack] Today those same two brothers have taken that material and are making entire

  • beds out of it. Today's video is sponsored by Purple. We're going to see how they've

  • taken that super soft cushion technology and are manufacturing entire beds. It should be

  • pretty interesting.

  • [Cambry] Let's get started.

  • [Intro]

  • [Cambry] We're here inside the Purple mattress factory, and this place is so large 7 football

  • fields can fit inside of it.

  • [Zack] Right behind us right now are all of the finished mattresses, but today we're going

  • to see how the mattresses are constructed and what makes them different than everybody

  • else.

  • So this purple dust is one of the secret ingredients that starts building the hyper-elastic polymer

  • that Purple uses in their mattresses.

  • [Cambry] It feels like Kinetic sand and powdered sugar had a baby and it's the Purple powder.

  • [Zack] The powder mixture gets melted down and gets melted into a massive injection molding

  • machine, which pumps out the massive sheets of purple grid like you see here. These are

  • then cut down into the specific mattress sizes. You know, twin, queen, king, and California

  • king. All the excess is added to these bins and then ground up and preserved to be used

  • again later.

  • A super cool part of this whole operation is that any portion of the Purple mattress

  • that they don't use, you know, the hyper-elastic polymer part, they can just grind up and reuse

  • in future mattresses. So there's zero waste involved.

  • So we've seen how the top of the Purple mattress is made. In order to combine that top with

  • the hybrid base, the coils in the base are sent through a machine that adds adhesive

  • to the top layer. That adhesive is then cooked through a red hot conveyor belt oven, and

  • then foam borders are set around the outside of the mattress on the top where the Purple

  • hyper-elastic polymer can then ride up a conveyor belt and plop down very satisfyingly inside.

  • Spreading out to each edge in every corner.

  • After the Purple grid is all spread out, the machine goes into a giant smasher which smashes

  • the purple into the bottom layer and creates a solid bond. After the mattresses have been

  • smooshed and adhered, they slide down the rest of the rollers, dry off, and get packaged

  • up. Once the hybrid mattresses are sufficiently dry, we can add the fire stock which covers

  • the entire mattress and is pinched off and sewn shut. The final cover is then added and

  • the whole mattress is flipped over onto the back side to help facilitate the cover closing.

  • Once the bottom is closed up and the mattress tag is added, the whole thing moves into a

  • giant suction machine. To facilitate the shipping, the mattresses are then pressed into a giant

  • compressor which vacuums all the air out and turns it into a giant purple pancake. The

  • purple pancake is then rolled up into a giant purple burrito and then ejected into a giant

  • purple sleeve.

  • My favorite part of this whole contraption is this giant suction machine right here which

  • can lift up 240 pounds, since these mattresses are pretty heavy. It has 3 suction cups on

  • the end and effortlessly places the mattresses onto giant pallets so they can be shipped

  • out.

  • So Cambry, now that you've seen how the mattresses are made and put together, are you ready to

  • go try ours out?

  • [Cambry] Yeah, I'm excited to try it out because I've seen how much work goes into it now.

  • [Zack] They look pretty cool from the inside, which we know is the best. Let's go.

  • So there are a lot of mattress-in-a-box companies out there, but Purple is different. That same

  • grid that was used for wheelchair cushions is now the size of a bed and used for entire

  • bodies. It was super fun seeing how Purple can cram a massive mattress into such a small

  • footprint for shipping. The pros of having a purple grid system over foam is that it

  • can dynamically adapt to your body no matter what your sleep position is, or what body

  • type you have. It smushes down where it needs to but then remains supportive for the rest

  • of you. And if someone moves on one side of the bed, it doesn't disturb the other side

  • of the bed. The purple grid system also allows for air flow so the bed stays cool. What started

  • out as high end medical mattresses and wheelchair cushions 30 years ago, is now available to

  • the general public and we're excited to try it out.

  • So one thing Cambry and I decided to go with was the power base for the Purple bed and

  • that's because the whole thing has motors in it. It can raise the feet and the head.

  • One thing that I don't think Purple really thought about was that the base is also adjustable.

  • So we have the height set to a perfect height for Cambry so she can transfer in and out

  • of the bed fairly easily.

  • [Cambry] There are a couple different thicknesses that you can get on your mattress and we ended

  • up going with the 3 because it's not super firm and not super fluffy. It's kind of got

  • that Goldilocks effect.

  • [Zack] It's kind of that perfect middle ground between the soft and the hard. If you use

  • the link in the video description right below this video, you can try out a Purple mattress

  • for 100 days. And if you don't like it, Purple will come take away the mattress for free

  • and give you a full refund.

  • [Cambry] Plus there's a 10-year warranty on them.

  • [Zack] We're pretty excited to try it out. Huge thanks to Purple for sponsoring this

  • video. I really do enjoy seeing how everything is made.

  • [Cambry] I feel like we're Mr. Rogers and we just went to one of those factories to

  • show all the kids.

  • [Zack] Right! It really is though. And yeah. The link is down in the description.

  • [Cambry] See you around.

  • [Zack] There we go. Thanks a ton for watching, we'll see you around.

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