Serge thread loop fastener for trim cover

• US 5,236,243 A
• Filed: 03/30/1992
• Issued: 08/17/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lear Corporation
• Original Assignee: General Motors Corporation (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: Reyes, Richard M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cranmer, Laurie K.
• Application Number:
  US07/859,791
• Time in Patent Office: 505 Days
• Field of Search: 297/218, 297/291, 24/445, 24/442, 24/306, 24/450
• US Class Current: 297/219.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5833 by hook-and-loop type fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/27 including readily dissociable fastener having numerous, protruding, unitary filaments randomly interlocking with, and simultaneously moving towards, mating structure [e.g., hook-loop type fastener]

Abstract

A seat assembly has a seat cushion provided with hook strip fasteners located at the bottom of recesses in the cushion. A trim cover has selvage end projections at adjacently sewn together panels provided with a serge seam formed by overcast stitching a fiber thread therealong. The serge seam provides a loop fastener strip for attaching to the hook strip fasteners when the trim cover is placed over the cushion and the trim cover pressed into place.

Claims

1. In a seat assembly having a foam cushion provided with at least one elongated recess whose bottom faces outwardly of the cushion,

a hook strip fastener whose back is secured to said foam cushion along the bottom of said recess and whose hooks extend into said recess,

a trim cover having top and bottom surfaces and comprising a plurality of cover portions whose adjacent side edges are abutted and sewed together to define a selvage end projection extending transversely of said bottom side,

and means secured to said trim cover along said selvage projection for engaging and locking to said hook strip fasteners when said projection is aligned with and pressed into said recess, the improvement being that said last named means comprises a serge seam along said selvage end projection formed by overcast stitching a fiber thread therealong, said serge seam lockingly engaging said hooks of said strip fastener when said projection is pushed into said recess.

2. In a seat assembly, as defined in claim 1, and wherein said fiber thread is a soft finished cotton thread having at least four plies.

3. In a seat assembly, as defined in claim 1, and wherein said fiber thread is of a synthetic plastic material having at least four plies.

4. In a seat assembly having a foam cushion provided with elongated recesses whose bottoms face outwardly of the cushion,

hook strip fasteners whose back is secured to said foam cushion along the bottom of said recesses and whose hooks extend into said recesses,

a trim cover having top and bottom surfaces and comprising a plurality of cover portions whose adjacent side edges are abutted and sewed together to define a selvage seam projecting transversely of said bottom side,

and means secured to said trim cover along said projecting selvage seam for engaging and locking to said hook strip fasteners when said selvage projection is aligned with and pressed into said recesses, the improvement being that said last named means comprises a serge seam along said selvage projection formed by loosely overcast stitching a synthetic multi-ply fiber thread therealong, said serge seam lockingly engaging said hooks of said strip fastener when said selvage projection is pushed into said recesses.

5. In a seat assembly, as defined in claim 4, and wherein said fiber thread is made from polyester.

6. In a seat assembly, as defined in claim 4, and wherein said fiber thread is made from nylon.

7. In a seat assembly, as defined in claim 4, and wherein said fiber thread is made from rayon.

8. In a seat assembly, as defined in claim 4, and wherein said serge seams has a minimum of 14-18 stitches per inch, a minimum denier of at least 105, a minimum tensile strength of at least 7 pounds and a minimum elongation of at least 33 percent.