Dust-proof device for skirt portion of seam-type bellows

• US 5,558,951 A
• Filed: 12/12/1994
• Issued: 09/24/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Takeshi Nemoto, Teruko Nemoto
• Original Assignee: Takeshi Nemoto, Teruko Nemoto
• Inventors: Nemoto, Teruko, Nemoto, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas, Alexander S.
• Application Number:
  US08/353,829
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 428/102, 428/192, 428/193, 493/940, 29/454
• US Class Current: 428/102
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 11/0816 Foldable coverings, e.g. bellows
• CPC Class Codes: F16J 3/041 Non-metallic bellows
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 493/94 Bellows
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49877 of flexible wall, expansible chamber devices [e.g., bellows]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24033 including stitching and discrete fastener[s], coating or bond
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24777 Edge feature
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24785 including layer embodying mechanically interengaged strands, strand portions or strand-like strips [e.g., weave, knit, etc.]

Abstract

A three-side covering seam-type bellows includes a plurality of essentially C-shaped sheets of mutually identical configuration, the sheets being piled to each other for forming the bellows. The bellows has a pair of obliquely extending lower edges provided for each of the sheets. An outer sewing line extends along the outer peripheral edge of each of the sheets, the outer sewing line extending to the inner end of the obliquely extending lower edges, and an inner sewing line extends along the inner peripheral edge of each of the sheets, the inner sewing line being terminated at terminating points on the inner peripheral edges extending from the inner end of the obliquely extending edge and spaced apart from the inner end. A pair of unsewn portions are formed between the inner ends and the termination points.

Claims

1. A bellows comprising:

a plurality of sheets of mutually identical configuration of the same size, each of said sheets has an upper portion and a pair of side portions extending downward from both ends of said upper portions, said sheets being adjacently ajoined for forming the bellows;

a pair of oblique edges provided in downward slopes to inner sides from outer sides on a pair of lower edges of said side portions;

an outer sewing line provided along outer edges of first adjacent sheets for interconnection therebetween, said outer sewing line extending to the inner sides on said pair of oblique edges;

an inner sewing line provided along inner edges of second adjacent sheets for interconnection therebetween, said inner serving line being terminated at a pair of middle points on the inner edges in the pair of side portions; and

a pair of unsewn portions formed between said pair of inner sides on the pair of oblique edges and said pair of middle points.

2. A bellows as set forth in claim 1, wherein a pair of notches are provided at said inner edges on said pair of unsewn portions.

3. A bellows as set forth in claim 1, wherein a pair of arcuate edges are disposed between an outer edge of said upper portion and outer edges of said pair of side portions.