AU2008101128A4 - Protective car seat cover - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60N—SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60N2/00—Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles
- B60N2/58—Seat coverings
- B60N2/60—Removable protective coverings
- B60N2/6018—Removable protective coverings attachments thereof
- B60N2/6036—Removable protective coverings attachments thereof by hook and loop-type fasteners
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C31/00—Details or accessories for chairs, beds, or the like, not provided for in other groups of this subclass, e.g. upholstery fasteners, mattress protectors, stretching devices for mattress nets
- A47C31/10—Loose or removable furniture covers
- A47C31/11—Loose or removable furniture covers for chairs
- A47C31/113—Loose or removable furniture covers for chairs liquid-impermeable
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60N—SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B60N2/00—Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles
- B60N2/58—Seat coverings
- B60N2/60—Removable protective coverings
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Description
AUSTRALIA
Patents Act 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION Invention Title: Applicant: A Protective Seat Cover Robyn McDonald The invention is described in the following statement: 00 2 A PROTECTIVE SEAT COVER FIELD OF THE INVENTION.
0 Z The present invention relates to seat covers and particularly those used _to protect a car seat from unnecessary dampness or liquid penetration.
Background Art.
00 Seat covers in general and car seat covers in particular are known. One Sexample is described in United States Patent No. 5806925 which also contains a good description of the reason for the seat covers and their potential drawbacks. The 00 0"Background Art" portion of that specification is reproduced below verbatim.
S 10 People active in outdoor activities such as mountain biking, hiking, rollerblading, running, water sports, and snow sports, must often use their car to travel to parks and other outdoor recreation areas. Such outdoor areas frequently do not provide facilities for showering or changing clothing. Thus, unless some temporary protective covering is applied to the car seat prior to the drive home, any accumulated sweat, dirt, dust, water, snow, or mud will be passed to the car seat's upholstery.
Such active individuals, interested in preserving their valuable upholstery, qften use bath towels, T-shirts, Sweatshirts, and other various types of clothing to.fashion a temporary, make-shift seat cover that can be easily removed and washed along with their workout apparel when they arrive home. Such make-shift seat covers are lacking in several respects. Namely, they are time consuming and difficult to install due to the awkward shapes of the apparel used with respect to the car seat. In particular, the seat back is especially difficult in this respect since no simple method of firmly anchoring apparel to it is available. Additionally, this inconsistency between apparel geometry and seat geometry often results in incomplete coverage of the seat's upholstery. Furthermore, it is difficult to enter the seat without disturbing the arrangement and inadvertently exposing the seat's upholstery. Finally, these make-shift seat covers are not waterproof and will transmit moisture and suspended dirt particles to the underlying seat upholstery.
Commercially available car seat covers are commonly designed for semi-permanent installation, and to closely conform with the dimensions of a particular seat. For example, some designs utilize a multi-piece approach where separate coverings for the seat bottom, back, and headrest have been specifically 00 3 Sdimensioned to fit a particular make and model of car seat. Integral fasteners such as >zippers, elastic straps, and drawcords are typically used to secure these pieces to the Z seat. Such designs can be constructed using a variety of materials to achieve a desired _aesthetic quality, comfort quality, durability, or protective quality. For example, lamb's wool is often used to provide excellent aesthetics and comfort, Denim may be 00 used to provide durability, and vinyl coated canvas may be used for protection from Swater, dirt, and mud Such multi-piece seat covers are inherently high in cost, time consuming to install and remove, cannot be transferredfor use in a different car, and 00 are difficult or impossible to clean using conventional household laundering methods.
Simplified seat cover designs employing two-piece or one-piece configurations are also commonly available. However, all of these designs utilize .fastening schemes or mechanisms that substantially increase installation and removal time. In addition, they are generally not easily transferred from one car to another, and often present the laundering difficulties indicated above.
Finally, all of the commercially available seat covers are deficient with respect to solving the primary problem outlined above. Specifically, these products have not been designed to satisfy the needs of active individuals who desire an easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, protective car seat cover that has been designed and fabricated to facilitate and withstandfrequent installation-removal-laundering cycles.
Additionally, none of these commercially available seat covers are capable of providing a breathable or comfortable seating surface that adequately protects the underlying upholsteryfrom sweat, water, dirt, mud, and other contaminants typically accumulated during the outdoor activities indicated above.
Temporary use protective car seat covers have been proposed in the past. For example, US. Pat. Nos. 4,676,376 (1987) and 4,884,839 (1989) both to Keiswetter disclose disposable seat covers formed from two layers of plastic film.
While these inventions provide protection to a car seat, they do not provide a breathable characteristic, or any reasonable degree of comfort, and cannot be laundered or used multiple times. Furthermore, seat covers formedfrom such plastic films are highly undesirablefrom an aesthetics standpoint.
US. Pat. No. 3,371,957 to Cook (1968) shows a car seat cover having a textile outer surface to which a plasticfoam backing has been selectively adhesively bonded Cook's seat cover has been designed for semi-permanent, or permanent 00 4 installations, and would require a substantial amount of time to install and remove.
>The preferred embodiment depicts a configuration that in some cases would require 0 Z complete removal of the car seatfrom the vehicle to allow installation. Also, thefoam backing and adhesives used in Cook's seat cover would not be compatible with conventional washing and tumble drying operations. Finally, the materials specified 00 for Cook's cover would not provide adequate protection from sweat, mud, water, and the like." It will be clearly understood that, if a prior art publication is referred to 00 0herein, this reference does not constitute an admission that the publication forms part 10 of the common general knowledge in the art in Australia or in any other country.
Summary of the Invention.
The present invention is directed to a protective seat cover, which may at least partially overcome at least one of the abovementioned disadvantages or provide the consumer with a useful or commercial choice.
With the foregoing in view, the present invention in one form, resides broadly in a protective seat cover including at least one waterproof portion and at least one correspondingly shaped absorbent portion, at least one of the waterproof portion or the absorbent towel portion having attachment means to releasably attach the other of the portions thereto and at least one of the respective portions having seat attachment means to locate and maintain the seat cover relative to a seat.
The seat cover of the present invention is described herein with particular applicability to use as a car seat cover but it is anticipated that the seat cover find application in other areas such as a seat cover for an outdoor chair such as one surrounding a pool or the like.
The seat cover of a preferred embodiment will typically be shaped to suit the chair or seat with which it is to be used. The cover will preferably be available in a variety of shapes and sizes. However, the general shape will normally be substantially rectangular with a tapered upper portion. The rectangular portion will normally be a body portion which is adapted to overlie the seat and backrest portion of the seat with which the cover is used.
Normally the absorbent layer will be located uppermost on the seat with the waterproof portion located adjacent the seat.
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SThe body portion will normally be dimensioned according to the size of the seat as well. For example, in the car seat cover embodiment, the body portion will Z normally be between approximately 100cm and 200cm in length and normally approximately 140cm in length. The body portion will also normally be between approximately 50 and 100 cm in width but normally approximately 70cm in width.
00 The preferred dimensions will typically be similar to the dimensions of a towel as well as provide sufficient size to substantially cover a car seat.
The seat cover will normally be formed from at least one fabric layer, 00 0preferably functioning to absorb liquids and a substantially waterproof layer which S 10 will typically function to prevent migration of the liquid of the fabric layer through the fabric layer and onto the seat.
The fabric layer may be of any type of fabric but will normally be a towelling or similar absorbent layer. Super absorbent materials such as artificial chamois materials, an example of which is disclosed in United States Patent No.
4341832 may be used as the absorbent portion. These materials are typically soft, water absorbent porous polymeric foams. These layers are normally tacky as such, whilst they may find use in the cover of the present invention, are not preferred as the outermost layer. More natural fibres will normally be preferred for their feel.
The at least one waterproof portion will normally be manufactured from substantially impermeable material such as plastic. A flexible sheet of polyvinyl chloride is preferred for at least one of the waterproof portions.
Each of the layers, including the waterproof layers and the fabric layers will typically be finished at their edges to prevent unravelling or fraying. Normally, the absorbent portion will have its edges turned and attached to the main body such as by sealing or stitching and the waterproof layers will be similarly configured albeit with a different securing method.
The absorbent portion(s) and the waterproof portion(s) will preferably be removably attachable to one another. Any attachment system may be used but it is anticipated that buttons, clips or hook and loop fasteners such as Velcro® will be used.
It is preferred that harder fastening systems not be used as these may detract form the comfort of a user if poorly located when the cover is used on a seat and also may cause discomfort when using the absorbent portion as a towel or the like.
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Normally, portions of the attachment system will be provided on each >portion. As there will normally be only two layers, a waterproof layer and an Z absorbent layer, normally one portion will have part of the attachment system and the _other portion will have the other part of the attachment system.
There will also preferably be a loop attached to either of the portions at 00 an upper end, normally to the tapered portion of the body of one of the portions. The loop will typically assist with the location of the cover relative to the seat particularly when used as a car seat cover as the loop can be placed over the head rest of the seat
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S 10 There may be a single loop attached to one of the portions or there may be a loop attached to each of the portions. According to a particularly preferred embodiment, the loop may be an elastic strap. Additionally, the loop may be length adjustable in order to be tightened or loosened when fitting and removing the cover form the seat.
In use, the cover may be separated for use of the absorbent portion as a towel for example when at the beach. When it is time to return, the absorbent portion can be reattached to the waterproof portion and the cover located relative to a car seat in order that the person swimming costume, which is likely to not be completely dry, can still be worn when the person drives the car home, without the water from the swimming costume transferring from the costume through the absorbent layer and into the seat. This movement is prevented by the waterproof layer adjacent the seat.
Water can still transfer from the costume to the absorbent layer, this drying the costume and increasing the comfort of the user.
The cover can be separated for washing and drying and then reassembled for future use.
Brief Description of the Drawings.
Various embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the following drawings, in which: Figure 1 is a schematic view of a waterproof portion of the protective seat cover according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 is a schematic view of an absorbent portion of the protective seat cover according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the preferred portions of the 00 7
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protective seat cover according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention >separated from one another.
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Z Figure 4 is a perspective view of a protective seat cover according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention showing the fabric side uppermost.
Figure 5 is a perspective view of a protective seat cover according to a 00 preferred embodiment of the present invention showing the protective side uppermost.
Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiment.
According to a particularly preferred embodiment, a protective car seat 00 0cover 10 and illustrated generally in Figures 3 to 5 is provided.
S 10 As illustrated in these Figures and in Figures I and 2, the protective seat cover 10 includes a waterproof portion 11 and a correspondingly shaped absorbent portion 12, both portions having one half of a Velcro® attachment means to releasably attach the portions thereto and the absorbent portion 12 having a seat attachment loop 13 to locate and maintain the seat cover 10 relative to a seat.
The seat cover 10 of the preferred embodiment is shaped to suit the chair or seat with which it is to be used. The general shape is a substantially rectangular body portion 14 with a tapered upper portion 15 as illustrated schematically in Figures 1 and 2. The rectangular body portion 14 adapted to overlie the seat and backrest portion of the seat with which the cover 10 is used.
Normally, the absorbent layer will be located uppermost on the seat with the waterproof portion located adjacent the seat in use.
The body portion 14 will normally be dimensioned according to the size of the seat as well. For example, in the preferred car seat cover embodiment illustrated, the body portion is normally approximately 140cm in length approximately 70cm in width. The preferred dimensions are similar to the dimensions of a towel as well as providing sufficient size to substantially cover a car seat.
The seat cover is formed from a fabric, normally towelling layer illustrated in Figure 2 functioning to absorb liquids and the waterproof layer illustrated in Figure 1 which will typically function to prevent migration of the liquid which may contact the fabric layer, onto the seat.
The waterproof portion of the illustrated embodiment is manufactured from substantially impermeable material, namely a flexible sheet of polyvinyl chloride.
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~As illustrated, half of the Velcro® attachment system 16 is provided on each portion. As there will normally be only two layers, a waterproof layer and an Z absorbent layer, one portion has part of the attachment system and the other portion _has the other part of the attachment system as illustrated in Figure 1 and 2.
A loop 13 is attached the tapered portionl5 of the absorbent body 00 portion. The loop assists with the location of the cover 10 relative to the seat particularly when used as a car seat cover, as the loop can be placed over the head rest _of the seat to position the cover.
0In use, the cover can be separated for use of the absorbent portion 12 as a towel for example when at the beach. When it is time to return, the absorbent portion 12 can be reattached to the waterproof portion 11 and the cover 10 located relative to a car seat in order that the person swimming costume, which is likely to not be completely dry, can still be worn when the person drives the car home, without the water from the swimming costume transferring from the costume through the absorbent layer 12 and into the seat. This movement is prevented by the waterproof layer 11 adjacent the seat. Water can still transfer from the costume to the absorbent layer 12, this drying the costume and increasing the comfort of the user. The cover can be separated for washing and drying and then reassembled for future use.
In the present specification and claims (if any), the word "comprising" and its derivatives including "comprises" and "comprise" include each of the stated integers but does not exclude the inclusion of one or more further integers.
Reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, the appearance of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more combinations.
In compliance with the statute, the invention has been described in language more or less specific to structural or methodical features. It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to specific features shown or described since the means herein described comprises preferred forms of putting the invention into effect. The invention is, therefore, claimed in any of its forms or modifications 00 9 within the proper scope of the appended claims (if any) appropriately interpreted by those skilled in the art.
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- 4. A protective seat cover as claimed in any one of the preceding claims wherein hook and loop fasteners are used to temporarily attach the portions to each other. A protective seat cover as claimed in any one of the preceding claims further including a loop attached to either of the portions at an upper end to assist with the location of the cover relative to a seat particularly when used as a car seat cover wherein the loop can be placed over a head rest of the seat to position the cover.
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