Method of Forming A Mattress Cover Border Panel

• US 20140196647A1
• Filed: 03/18/2014
• Published: 07/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: L&P Property Management Company (Leggett & Platt Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: L&P Property Management Company (Leggett & Platt Incorporated)
• Inventors: Myers, Terrance L., Winton, David K., Garrett, John A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,115,450 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 112/475.08
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/00 Details or accessories for chairs, beds, or the like, not provided for in other groups of this subclass, e.g. upholstery fasteners, mattress protectors, stretching devices for mattress nets
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/08 Mattress hand-straps , hand-grips or the like
• CPC Class Codes: D05B 11/005 for sewing the edges of mattresses
• CPC Class Codes: D05B 35/06 for attaching bands, ribbons, strips, or tapes or for binding

Abstract

A multi-needle quilting machine (20) is provided with a tape or ribbon guide (30) that is operated by a method by which a narrow strip (32) is fed against a facing layer (11a) of a wide multi-layered material (24) as it is fed into the quilting machine. In the quilting machine (20), series of chain stitches are sewn, at least one of which joins the tape (32) and layers of the multi-layered material (24) together with the same thread in a quilting process, thereby applying the tape (32) to the quilted product in a single quilting operation without the need for a post-quilting tape application step. The tape may form a decorative strip or have unsewn sections that serve as handles for a mattress when the quilted product is formed into a mattress cover.

Claims

1. A method of forming a mattress cover border panel comprising:

feeding a narrow strip of material into a quilting machine against a wide web of multi-layered material being quilted in the machine, wherein the narrow strip of material is narrower than the wide web of multi-layered material; and

in the machine, quilting layers of the multi-layered material together with one or more series of chain stitches, at least one of the one or more series joining the narrow strip and the layers of the wide web together.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the quilting includes sewing the one or more series of chain stitches such that said at least one of which is sewn in a series of stitch sequences, a first sequence of which ends in a tack sewn in the narrow strip and a second sequence of which begins in the narrow strip at a distance spaced from the tack with a needle thread of which the tack is formed being cut between said first and second sequences.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the quilting includes sewing the one or more series of chain stitches such that said at least one of the series is sewn in a series of at least three stitch sequences, a first and a second of which each end in a tack in the narrow strip and at least two of which each begin in the narrow strip at distances spaced from different ones of the tacks with a needle thread of which the tack is formed being cut between sequences of the series, with the narrow strip forming a handle between a tack and the beginning of a sequence of the series.