Attachment mechanism for an upholstered seat

• US 20030001421A1
• Filed: 06/26/2002
• Published: 01/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Faurecia Autositze GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Faurecia Autositze GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Schmidt, Falk
• Application Number:
  US10/180,651
• Publication Number:
  US 20030001421A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/452.6
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5825 by hooks, staples, clips, snap fasteners or the like

Abstract

The present invention relates to a seat, in particular a motor vehicle seat, with at least one upholstery body and one cover, on whose underside attachment elements with free ends developed in the manner of barbed hooks are provided. These hooks can be snapped into complementary holding mechanism anchored stress-proof in the upholstery body. The invention addresses the problem of providing for a seat of this type with a substantially simpler structured holding mechanism while maintaining the functionality. In the present invention the holding mechanisms are developed in the form of plates comprised of elastic material with slots which widen during the passing of the free ends of the attachment elements and close behind them after their passage.

Claims

1. An upholstered seat comprising at least one upholstery body, a cover over the upholstery body, said cover attached to the upholstery body by an attachment mechanism, the attachment mechanism comprising;

an attachment element having hooked free ends spaced apart, said attachment element being attached to the cover;

a holding mechanism comprising a plate formed from an elastic material having slots spaced apart corresponding to the free ends;

said slots widen during the passage of the hooks and close behind the hook afterwards.

2. The seat of claim 1, wherein the holding mechanisms are comprised of synthetic material, in particular thermoplastic synthetic material.

3. The seat of claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the holding mechanisms have between the slots holes for better anchoring with the upholstery body.

4. The seat as in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the holding mechanism is comprised of individual pieces, wherein with each individual piece is associated with a free end of the attachment elements and each individual piece has a slot.

5. The seat of claim 4 wherein the individual pieces are interlinked.

6. The seat of claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein the holding mechanisms are developed as continuous bars, which have slots for several free ends of the attachment elements.