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Fitted furniture cover

  • US 5,549,355 A
  • Filed: 06/01/1995
  • Issued: 08/27/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A one piece ready-made furniture slip cover (12) for covering substantially all of a piece of furniture (10), the piece of furniture having a back (18), at least one arm rest (16), a seat (20) and a body, the slip cover comprising:

  • a back portion (23,

         24) for covering the furniture back, the back portion having an inner surface for facing the furniture back, and an outer surface for facing away from the furniture back;

    a seat portion (26) connected to the back portion, for covering the furniture seat;

    an arm rest portion connected to the back and seat portions, for covering the arm rest;

    a body portion (28) connected to the back, seat and arm rest portions, for covering the furniture body, the body portion having an inner surface for facing the furniture body, and an outer surface for facing away from the furniture body;

    at least one first elastic band (34) sewn onto and across the inner surface of the back portion for elastically fitting the back portion of the slipcover to the furniture back; and

    a second elastic band (40) sewn onto and around the inner surface of the body portion by a plurality of spaced apart stitches (41), portions of the second elastic band between adjacent stitches being relaxed after having been stretched while the spaced stitches were made so that the slipcover includes a plurality of folds (50) in the body portion of the slipcover, which form a ruffle in the body portion, each fold being between a pair of adjacent stitches.

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