VEHICLE SEATS AND OTHER UPHOLSTERED ITEMS

• US 3,774,968 A
• Filed: 07/28/1972
• Issued: 11/27/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sidney Desmond Fenton
• Original Assignee: Sidney Desmond Fenton
• Inventors: Fenton, Sidney Desmond
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/276,009
• Time in Patent Office: 487 Days
• Field of Search: 297/452,455,457,458,218,219,229 5/353.1 264/45,47,166
• US Class Current: 297/452.61
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/18 having foamed material included in cushioning part foamed material mattresses A47C27/14
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/7035 Cushions
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 297/01 Foam

Abstract

This invention relates to the seat cushions or back rests of vehicle seats and other upholstered items. The seat cushion consists of a shaped cover within which a resilient foam filling which has been foamed in situ and so becomes bonded to the cover. The base of the foam filling is bonded to a frame for the seat and a skirt of foam is provided around at least part of the edge of the foam filling. The free edges of the shaped cover have been tucked up and secured in the recess defined by the skirt of foam and this is found to give the cushion a neat and attractive appearance in a quick and simple fashion. According to a preferred embodiment the recess defined by the skirt of foam is aligned with the upstanding edge of the frame of the seat, so locating the cushion accurately. Additionally if the recess is much deeper than necessary to accommodate the edge of the frame, this improves the comfort of the seat because the user will not notice the edge of the frame even though the resilient filling has been depressed.

Claims

1. An upholstered item such as a seat cushion comprising :

a shaped cover having a top or front face and depending side edges, a resilient foam filling positioned within said cover and bonded to the interior surface of said cover by having been foamed in situ in the cover, said foam filling having a rear or underside free for attachment to a rigid frame for said item, edge portions of said depending side edges of said cover extending beyond said rear or underside of said foam filling, and a recess provided around and near at least part of the edge of said underside or rear face of said foam filling so defining a skirt of foam filling, said edge portions of said cover having been turned around and secured to said skirt within said recess.

2. An item according to claim 1 in which said edge portions of said cover have been secured in said recess by an adhesive.

3. An item according to claim 1 and further comprising a rigid frame, and means for securing said underside or rear face of said foam filling to said rigid frame.

4. An item according to claim 3 in which said underside or rear face of said foam filling has been secured to said rigid frame by means of an adhesive.

5. An item according to claim 3 in which said rigid frame has an upstanding edge which projects into said recess in said underside or rear face of said foam filling.

6. An item according to claim 5 in which said recess in said underside or rear face of said foam filling is deeper than the height of said upstanding edge of said rigid frame, whereby a gap is left between the said upstanding edge and the roof of said recess.

7. An item according to claim 6 which is a vehicle seat.

8. An item according to claim 1 which is a vehicle seat.