Translation for "colchones de muelles" to english

Colchones de muelles

• spring mattresses
• boxspring

Translation examples

spring mattresses

—¿Qué tienen de malo los colchones de muelles?
What's wrong with inner-spring mattresses?

En el salón nos sentábamos en el suelo, sobre colchones de muelles.
In the hall we sat on the floor on spring mattresses.

Maquinaria para fabricar coches tapizados, o colchones de muelles.
A lot of trick machinery for making upholstered cars or inner-spring mattresses.

Yo respondía que no había que dormir sobre madera pudiendo tener un colchón de muelles. ¿O es que la comodidad constituye un pecado?
And I said why should we sleep on wood and rattan when we could have a spring mattress, and is that a sin?

Los colchones de muelles se inventaron en 1865, pero al principio eran poco fiables puesto que los alambres podían moverse, conllevando el peligro muy real de que el ocupante de la cama acabara recibiendo un pinchazo.
Spring mattresses were invented in 1865, but didn’t work reliably at first because the coils would sometimes turn, confronting the occupant with the very real danger of being punctured by his own bed.

Apenas había terminado su plegaria, cuando sintió tan incontenible necesidad de orinar, que temió ensuciar la cama y el bonito colchón de muelles o incluso la bella moqueta gris si no conseguía encontrar alivio en pocos segundos.
He had hardly spoken his prayer to its end when he sensed such an urgent need to piss that he knew he would befoul the bed he was lying on, the lovely coil-spring mattress, or even his lovely grey carpet, if he did not succeed in finding relief somewhere within the next few seconds. This brought him totally to himself.

Pensaba que su padre había hecho bien al cambiar de trabajo, que llegaba un momento en que aparatos de televisión, frigoríficos y colchones de muelles ya no decían nada y había que abandonar el barco y emprender otra cosa, y como su padre era aficionado al tenis, ¿por qué no ganarse la vida con el juego que adoraba?
He felt that his father had done the right thing in changing jobs, that television sets and refrigerators and box-spring mattresses can speak to you for just so long and then a moment comes when you should jump ship and try something else, and because his father was so fond of tennis, why not earn his living from the game he loved?