US1560773A

US1560773A - Tool for filling upholstery pockets

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Publication number: US1560773A
Application number: US26394A
Authority: US
Inventors: Del Roy F Fowler
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-04-28
Filing date: 1925-04-28
Publication date: 1925-11-10
Anticipated expiration: 1942-11-10

Description

1,560,773 DEL ROY F. FOWLER v TOOL FOR FILLING UPHOLSTERY PocKETs Nov. 10 1925' Filed April 28, 1925 Patented Nov. 10, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

DEL ROY F. FOWLER, OF MELROSE PARK, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOOL FOR FILLING UPHOLSTERY POCKETS.

Application filed April 22, 1925. serial No. 26,394.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEL RoY F. FOWLER, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Melrose Park, county of Montgomery, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tools for Filling Upholstery Pockets, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

My inventionrelates to the construction of tools by means of which a hat of filling material such as cotton is inserted in pockets or pleats in, for instance, automobile upholstery.

The object of my invention is to providea tool through which the bat can pass freely, by means of which the bat can be tightly gripped particularly at the front end of the tool and which tool can be opened out.

to give access to the bat lying within it.

The nature of my invention will be best understoodas described in connection with the drawings which illustrate a tool having my improvements and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of my tool. Figure 2,. a lan in central horizontal sec tion showing t e bat in place. I

Figure '3 is a cross section on line 33 of Fig. 1. i

Figure 4, a cross section on line 44 of Fig 1.

igure 5 is a plan View showing the trough members spread apart.

Figure 6 is a perspective view showing;

the tool in use, and

I Figure 7 is a vertical longitudinal section showing a modification.

A, A is the tubular base of the tool, that part A having a funnel shape and the part A having an elliptical section with parallel walls. B and B .are metal tongues fastened. to the bottom and top of the A section of the base and extending, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5, for the full length of the tool. By preference, the lateral sides of the tongues angle to each other, as indicated at b b Fig. 3. C, C, are trough shaped sections of the tool, the edges of which preferably an le towards each other, as indicated at C, Fig. 3. The sections C, C, are pivotally attached to the base section A as by rivetsD, D, and so as to turn, freely from, for instance, such a position as is Fig. 7, the upper tongue B only extends to 1 the point B The trough shaped sections C, C, are so shaped and so pivotally attached to the tubular base that they do not-in use overlap each other and form a complete container forthe bat, but they do overlap the edges of the top and bottom tongues B, B, and preferably in such manner that the angling edges 0 of the sections C contact with the edges 6 of the tongues at the outer end of the tool so as to press the tongues B, B, inward against the bat when the trough sections are moved together. Y J

E indicates the hat of filling material. E the end of the bat projecting beyond the end of the tool. F is the upholstery container formed into leats or pockets F, F.

In operation theliat E is introduced into the tool so that an end E will extend'for a short distance beyond it and as shown in charged is lnserte in a pocket F and forced back to the'end thereof so that the end E of the bat is compacted against the end of the pocket. The operator thenv relaxes his grip on the sections C, C, and after gras mg the free end E of the bat through t e end of-the pocket F he withdraws the tool leaving the bat in the pocket and at the same time recharging the tool with a fresh portion of the bat. The bat is, of course, severed so as to leave a charge in'the pocket and a projecting end E on the new charge of the tool.

The modified tool' of Fig. '7, in which the tongue B does not extend to the end ofthe tool, does not beyond the endB com letely enclose the bat and in the case of this tool the top portion E of the bat will, when the charged tool is inserted in a pocketand the grip on its members is relaxed, bulge up against the fabric of the pocket and by friction therewithvassist in holding the bat in drawn. I v 4 7 Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure- ,by Letters Patent, is:

1. A tool for filling upholstery pockets comprising a tubular base, non-overlapping trough shaped sections pivotally attached to said base at one end so as to swing towards or away from each other and: tongue sections attached to the base and extending below and between the edges of the trough shaped sections to form with said trough shaped sections an enclosure for the bat of stuffing material when the trough shaped sections are moved together.

2. A tool having the features of claim 1, further characterized by having the ends of the trough shaped sections and at least one of the tongue sections located at the same distance from the base and adapted to form smooth gripping edges at the end of the tool.

DEL ROY F. FOVLER.