US1116859A - Spring-seat. - Google Patents

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DON CARLO Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DON CARLOS TRAVIS, OF KEN'OSHA, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO THE SIMMONS MANU- FACTURIN G COMPANY, OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

SPRING-SEAT.

To all whom it may 0017 cam Be it known that I, DON CARLOS Tnavis, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Kenosha, county of Kenosha, and Stateof lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring- Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to spring seats, particularly seats for automobile use and contemplates improved construction and arrangement for securing the upholstering fabric in place on the seat frame.

Spring seats as now constructed usually comprise upper and lower frames between which suitable springs are interposed, cushioning material and a finish cover being applied over the cushioning material and extending down along the sides of the seat, and a bottom fabric being secured underneath the frame. Heretofore the practice has been to sew together along the edgeof the bottom frame the bottom fabric and the sides of the top covering, such operation being laborious and consuming considerable time.

In general the object of my invention is to provide improved means for enabling the bottom and top fabrics to be tacked into place about the edge of the lower frame.

More in detail the object of the invention is to provide a wood strip along the outer edge of the lower frame and improved means for holding this strip in place so that the lower edges of the sides of the top fabric and the outer edges of the bottom fabric can be tacked in conjunction to the strip to form a neat joint and a finished appearance. The invention involves improved clips which enable the strip to be rigidly and quickly secured to the border wire of the lower frame.

Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings Figure 1 is an end elevational view of a seat with parts broken away and parts in section to clearly show the construction and arrangement, Fig. 2 is a plan view of one end of the seat with part of the cushioning material and top covering removed, and Fig. 3 is anenlarged sectional view through the lower frame border wire and wood strip, and showing one of the clips for securing the strip in place.

The seat shown comprises upper and lower frames 5 and 6 between which are in- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 28, 1913.

' Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

Serial No. 751.296.

tel-posed suitable springs 7. The upper frame has the border wire 8 and the lower frame has the border wire 9, the outfit:

springs being secured at their upper and lower ends to the respective border wires by means of suitable clips 10, the inner springs being supported by cross wires 11 connected therewith and with, the outer springs. Secured over the springs is suitable foundation fabric 12 for supporting cushioning material 13, the top finish fabric 14. usually of leather, being fastened over the cushioning material as by means of" buttons 15, the ends of the cushioning material extending downwardly from the top to the lower frame to form the inclosing sides 16. For inclosing the bottom of the seat an oil board 17 is preferably utilized and held in place by the bottom fabric 18, Heretofore the practice has usually been to sew. together the outer edges of the bottom fabric and the lower ends of the sides '16 bur such operation is laborious and consumes considerable time. f

In order to enable the outer ends of the bottom fabrieto be more readily secured in place about the loweredge of the seat, I secure a'strip '19 along the bottom edge of the scat, such strip being preferably of wood which will readily receive tacks and which is applied to intimately follow the lower border wire 9 in such amanner that its outer face is flush with the outside of the border wire. As a means for rigidly and accurately securing the wood strip in place, clips 20 are used. These clips are bent up of sheet metal lengths into U-form with their limbs straight as indicated in Fig.3, the lower outer, corner of the clips being deflected to form a pocket 20' for receiving the lower border wire 9. The wood strip is preferably in two sections 19 and 19", the section 19 being bent into shape to fit the end and rear sections of the lower border wire while the section 19 fits the front section of the wire as indicated. The strip sections are placed on the border wire and the U-shaped clips slippedupwardly about the border wire and the strips, the outer sec: tions b and c of the clips extending abo e the strips being then bent by suitable machinery inwardly and downwardly to force -the ends d and a into the soft material of the strips. If desired the strips can be slotted to receive these ends. After such an plication of'the clips, the strips will be securely clamped thereby and will be rigidly held in upright'position against the border wire 9 which is clamped in the-pockets of the clips. The outer ends 18 'of the lower fabric and the lower ends 16' of the side section 16 are now tacked to the wood a border'wire, of a tacking strip following the direction of said wire, and a clip embracing said wire and said strip, said strip andclip coiiperating positively to prevent lateral movement of said wire;

2. Ina spring seat, the combination with a lower border w1re,0f a non-metallic tackin strip following the direction of said wire, an

metallic U-shaped clips clamped around said strip and each :of said clips having a pocket for receiving the wire.

3. In a spring seat, the combination of a border'wire, a tacking strip, and a clipibracing said wire and said strip, Lsai'd rip and clip cooperating to form a pocket for said wire.

4. In a spring seat, the combination of a border wire, a tacking strip following the direction of said wire, and a metallicclip intimately clasped around said strip and including said Wire, said strip and clip 5. In a spring seat, the combination of x a border Wire, a substantially rectangular non-metallic tacking strip, a metallic clip clasped around said strip and including said wire, said clip and strip cooperating to form a pocket at one of the corners of said strip to lock said wire against lateral movement.

6. In a spring seat the combination with a lower border wire of a Wooden tacking strip having its outer face in the same plane as said lower border wire and a plurality of spaced apart, metallic U-shaped clips, each having a pocket in it bent to fit around the lower border wire and said clips being slipped about the border wire and strip, the ends of the'clips. being deflected inwardly and against'the top of the strip to rigidly secure the. latter to the border wire. I 7. In a spring seat; the combination with a border 'wire, a non-metallic tacking strip following the direction of said border wire, and a non-continuous{metallic clip clasped around said' strip and including said wire and having its ends deflected against and inwardly into the surface of said strip.

In Witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 27th day' of February, A. D;,

DON CARLOS TRAVIS.

lVitnessesi Y ALBERT H. GRAVES,

H. J. CAVANAGH.

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