Surface structure of wadded seat and method of manufacturing surface structure of wadded seat

• US 10,293,723 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2014
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Inventors: Shindo, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Barfield, Anthony D
• Application Number:
  US15/112,834
• Publication Number:
  US 20160339819A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,702 Days
• Field of Search: 29745262
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5883 by sewing, stitching or threading
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5891 characterised by the manufacturing process; manufacturing seat coverings not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/70 Upholstery springs ; Upholstery
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/7017 characterised by the manufacturing process; manufacturing upholstery or upholstery springs not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B68G 7/05 Covering or enveloping cores of pads in plastics material using a matching die B29C63/025

Abstract

A surface structure of wadded seat, with a trim cover having a plurality of trim cover pieces backed with wadding members and sewed together at ends, further includes: first sewed portions, each formed by sewing two adjacent trim cover pieces at one end of each trim cover piece, while serving as seam allowance, the portions not backed with the wadding members; second sewed portions, each formed first by forming a continuous trim cover piece, then by laying a long wadding member on the backs of the wadding members, and finally by sewing, at both ends of the continuous trim cover piece, the wadding members on the backs of the trim cover pieces and the long wadding member; and third sewed portions, each formed by sewing, at both ends of each first sewed portion, the long wadding member to the end of each trim cover piece.

Claims

1. A surface structure of wadded seat which includes a trim cover having a plurality of trim cover pieces backed with wadding members and sewed together at ends, and covering a seat pad, and the surface structure further including:

first sewed portions, each formed by sewing two adjacent trim cover pieces at one end of each trim cover piece, while serving as seam allowance, the portions not backed with the wadding members;

second sewed portions, each formed first by forming a continuous trim cover piece made of the sewed trim cover pieces, then by laying a long wadding member on the backs of the wadding members each provided on the back of the continuous trim cover piece, and finally by sewing, at both ends of the continuous trim cover piece, the trim cover pieces, the wadding members on the backs of the trim cover pieces and the long wadding member; and

third sewed portions, each formed by sewing, at both ends of each first sewed portion, the long wadding member to the end of each trim cover piece serving as seam allowance.

2. The surface structure of wadded seat, according to claim 1, wherein:

the trim cover pieces are three pieces including a left trim cover piece, a center trim cover piece and a right trim cover piece;

the first sewed portions are positioned at the left and right ends of the center trim cover piece, respectively;

the second sewed portions are positioned, respectively at the left end of the left trim cover piece and at the right end of the right trim cover; and

the third sewed portions are positioned, in the form of double stretch, respectively at the adjacent ends of the left and center trim cover pieces and at the adjacent ends of the center and right trim cover pieces.

3. The surface structure of wadded seat, according to claim 1, wherein the long wadding member is thinner than each of the wadding members provided on the backs of the trim cover pieces, respectively.

4. The surface structure of wadded seat, according to claim 3, wherein the wadding members are secured, with an adhesive agent, to the associated trim cover pieces, respectively.

5. A method of manufacturing a surface structure of wadded seat which includes a trim cover having a plurality of trim cover pieces backed with wadding members and sewed together at ends, and covering a seat pad, and the method further including:

a first step of forming first sewed portions, each by sewing two adjacent trim cover pieces at one end of each trim cover piece, while serving as seam allowance, the portions not backed with the wadding members;

a second step of forming second sewed portions, each first by forming a continuous trim cover piece made of the sewed trim cover pieces, then by laying a long wadding member on the backs of the wadding members each provided on the backs of the continuous trim cover pieces, and finally by sewing, at both ends of the continuous trim cover piece, the trim cover pieces, the wadding members on the backs of the trim cover pieces and the long wadding member;

a third step of forming third sewed portions, each by sewing, at both ends of each first sewed portion, the long wadding member to the end of each trim cover piece serving as seam allowance.