Smolder-resistant upholstery
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1. For upholstering the bat of a boxed cushion, where the upholstery conventionally includes a unitized body of upholstery material including a top wall, a bottom wall, a perimetrical sidewall, an upper perimetrical welt portion enclosing an upper welt cord, and a lower perimetrical welt portion enclosing a lower welt cord,the upholstery improvement comprising:
- a liner of lining material having means imparting a smolder-resistant quality thereto, said liner lining said perimetrical sidewall of said unitized body of upholstery material, both said perimetrical welt portions of said unitized body of upholstery material and only a respective perimetrical marginal portion of about a half inch in width of each of said top wall and said bottom wall of said unitized body of upholstery material;
extending in a perimetrical direction, said sidewall including a zippered interval and a non-zippered interval;
in said zippered interval, two respective strips of said liner having respective medial side margins sewn to respective side margins of a zipper jointly with respective medial side margins of two respective strips of upholstery material; and
in said non-zippered interval, a strip of said liner being juxtaposed with a respective strip of upholstery material and the resulting composite is sewn at one end to a respective one end of all four of said strips of said zippered interval and at the opposite end to a respective opposite end of said four strips of said zippered interval.
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Abstract
Cushion covers of upholstered sofas and chairs and the like are rendered smolder-resistant by a process for the manufacture of the cushion covers in which the upholstery fabric is lined with a smolder-resistant material to completely surround the two welt cords and underlie the boxed, border or vertical, area of the cushion cover.
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1. For upholstering the bat of a boxed cushion, where the upholstery conventionally includes a unitized body of upholstery material including a top wall, a bottom wall, a perimetrical sidewall, an upper perimetrical welt portion enclosing an upper welt cord, and a lower perimetrical welt portion enclosing a lower welt cord,
the upholstery improvement comprising: -
a liner of lining material having means imparting a smolder-resistant quality thereto, said liner lining said perimetrical sidewall of said unitized body of upholstery material, both said perimetrical welt portions of said unitized body of upholstery material and only a respective perimetrical marginal portion of about a half inch in width of each of said top wall and said bottom wall of said unitized body of upholstery material; extending in a perimetrical direction, said sidewall including a zippered interval and a non-zippered interval; in said zippered interval, two respective strips of said liner having respective medial side margins sewn to respective side margins of a zipper jointly with respective medial side margins of two respective strips of upholstery material; and in said non-zippered interval, a strip of said liner being juxtaposed with a respective strip of upholstery material and the resulting composite is sewn at one end to a respective one end of all four of said strips of said zippered interval and at the opposite end to a respective opposite end of said four strips of said zippered interval. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for upholstering the bat of a boxed cushion, where the upholstery conventionally includes a unitized body of upholstery material including a top wall, a bottom wall, a perimetrical sidewall, an upper perimetrical welt portion enclosing an upper welt cord, and a lower perimetrical welt portion enclosing a lower welt cord,
said method comprising: -
providing said utilized body with a liner of lining material having a smolder resistant quality imparted thereto, so that said liner lines said perimetrical sidewall of said unitized body of upholstery material, both said perimetrical welt portions of said unitized body of upholstery material and only a respective perimetrical marginal portion of about a half inch in width of each of said top wall and said bottom wall of said unitized body of upholstery material; extending in a perimetrical direction, said sidewall including a zippered interval and a non-zippered interval; in said zippered interval, two respective strips of said liner having respective medial side margins sewn to respective side margins of a zipper jointly with respective medial side margins of two respective strips of upholstery material; and in said non-zippered interval, a strip of said liner being juxtaposed with a respective strip of upholstery material and the resulting composite is sewn at one end to a respective one end of all four of said strips of said zippered interval and at the opposite end to a respective opposite end of said four strips of said zippered interval. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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