Upholstery fastening device

• US 3,925,861 A
• Filed: 07/03/1974
• Issued: 12/16/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alfred Tillner
• Original Assignee: Alfred Tillner
• Inventors: Tillner, Alfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Griffin, Donald A.
• Application Number:
  US05/485,482
• Time in Patent Office: 531 Days
• Field of Search: 24/243K,152 297/218,219 5/353.2,353.1,353.7 112/265,441 160/391,392,395,399,402,403,404
• US Class Current: 24/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 95/00 Fittings for furniture
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/023 connecting upholstery to frames, e.g. by hooks, clips, snap fasteners, clamping means or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B44C 7/022 Tapestry work
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 13/002 made of webs, e.g. of fabrics, or wallpaper, used as coverings or linings of a number of similar elements carried by a common web E04F13/0862; paperhanging, tapestry work B44C7/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/10 Miscellaneous

Abstract

A fabric covering is fastened to a base, e.g. a chair, using a flexible, I-shaped beading laid on the base, the fabric being laid over the beading and staples being fired through the fabric and a thin central web part of the beading. Stapling deforms the beading causing part thereof to collapse inwardly upon itself so as to trap and grip the fabric, at the same time hiding the staples.

Claims

1. A method of fastening fabric to a foundation, comprising the steps of (i) laying an extruded, flexible plastics fastening device on said foundation, said fastening device having a cross-sectional configuration in the general shape of an I and thereby including two spaced-apart ribs joined by a central web that is capable of bending;

(ii) placing said fabric over said device; and

(iii) driving securing means through said fabric and web into said foundation to bend said web into a generally V-shaped configuration, whereby rib portions remote from said foundation are brought together to trap said fabric therebetween.

2. A method according to claim 1, including the further step of securing said device to said foundation before placing said fabric over said device, said device secured by driving securing means through one of said ribs thereof.

3. A fabric-covered article made by the method according to claim 1.

4. A fastening device for use in attaching fabric to a foundation comprising:

a flexible, one piece plastics material extrusion, said extrusion having a cross-sectional configuration in the general shape of an I, said extrusion thereby having two spaced-apart ribs and a central web joining said ribs, each of said ribs being kidney-shaped and having an arched outwardly-facing surface and an inwardly-facing surface including a re-entrant, said web merging into said rib in the region of said re-entrant, and said web being capable of bending;

whereby, upon laying said extrusion on said foundation, covering by said fabric and driving securing means through said fabric and web into said foundation, said web is bent and rib portions remote from said foundation are brought together to trap said fabric therebetween.

5. A fastening device for use in attaching fabric to the surface of a foundation comprising:

a flexible, one-piece extrusion made of plastic material, said extrusion having a cross-sectional configuration in the general shape of an I, said extrusion thereby having two spaced-apart ribs and a central web joining said ribs, said web being spaced from said foundation surface when said two spaced-apart ribs are in contact with said foundation surface, said web being constructed and arranged such that securing means may be driven through said web into said foundation surface to thereby bend said web into a V-shaped configuration, whereby, upon laying said extrusion on said foundation surface, covering said extrusion with said fabric, and driving said securing means through said fabric and through said web into said foundation surface as aforesaid, said web is bent into said V-shaped configuration and the portions of said ribs remote from said foundation surface are brought together to trap said fabric between said ribs and within said V.

6. A fastening device according to claim 5, wherein said rib portions have rounded edges remote from said foundation surface.

7. A fastening device according to claim 5, wherein said extrusion is symmetrical about a longitudinal central plane through said web.

8. A fastening device according to claim 5, wherein said ribs are thicker than said web and constitute longitudinally-extending beading along opposite margins of said web.

9. A fastening device according to claim 5, wherein the dimensions of said ribs, measured normal to the plane of said web, are unequal.

10. A fastening device according to claim 5 wherein said web extends in a generally flat configuration between said two spaced-apart ribs when in a normal and unbent state.

11. In a fabRic-covered article comprising means on said article defining a foundation, a flexible, one-piece extrusion made of plastic material, said extrusion in its initial unbent state having a cross-sectional configuration in the general shape of an I, said extrusion in said initial unbent state thereby having two spaced-apart ribs and a central web joining said ribs, said web in its initial unbent state being spaced from said foundation when said two spaced-apart ribs are in contact with said foundation, securing means securing said extrusion to said foundation, said web being constructed and arranged such that upon driving said securing means through said web into said foundation, said web is bent into a V-shaped configuration, whereby, upon laying said unbent extrusion on said foundation, covering said extrusion with said fabric, and driving said securing means through said fabric and through said web into said foundation as aforesaid, said web is bent into said V-shaped configuration and the portions of said ribs remote from said foundation surface are brought together, said rib portions thereby trapping said fabric between said ribs and within said V.