US632475A - Upholsterer's form. - Google Patents

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; No. 632,475. Patented Sept. 5, I899.

T. SWAN.

UPHOLSTEBERS FORM.

(Applicltion filed July 1, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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THOMAS SlVAN, OF FLINT, MICHIGAN.

UPHOLSTERERS FORM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 632,475, dated September 5, 1899.

Application filed July 1,1899. Serial No. 722,494. [No model.)

To aZZ 1071/0172 it may concern:

Be itknown that I, THOMAS SWAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Flint, county of Genesee, State of Michigamhave invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Upholsterers Forms; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My improved invention relates to upholsterers forms; and it consists in the various constructions, modifications, and combinations hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation in perspective showing the general arrangement and construction of the form. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line so a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents certain details. Fig. 3 represents a strip forming a part of the work operated on. Fig. 4 represents in perspective a holder for grasping and holding the material upon a former. Fig. 5 is a modification of the form shown in Fig. at.

In the drawings, A represents a table or bench upon which the former is fixed.

B is a standard containing a universal joint 13.

C is the former proper, which, as is shown in Fig. 2, is attached to the top of the standard B. The former proper consists of a board 0 of substantially the form shown in Figs. 1 and 3 or of a modified form shown in Fig. 5. The top and edges of this board are armored with a heavy plate of sheet-steel 0 C the object of this armoring being to compel the clenching of nails used in the process of upholstering. It is obvious that the whole former might be made of a plate of iron of the proper shape and having the requisite depth or thickness at the edges, my object in making its body of wood being to secure lightness. Around the curved edges of the former proper are attached a series of hooks (Z (I, while on the straight edge another set of hooks d d of a different form is provided. The hooks around the curved edge project upwardly and form what might be termed a skeleton trough for the insertion of a part of the work, which consists of a strip of heavy cardboard, which is shown separately in Fig. 3. The hooks along the straight edge project over the top surface of the former C, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. These are for the purpose of holding down the base of the work, which is laid upon the former in position to be attached to the edge of the work or the piece shown in Fig. 3. Upon the under side of the formerI provide clamps E of peculiar construction for the purpose of drawing the edge of the work down to the former, and thus making it conform to the shape of the same smoothly and without wrinkles. One of these clamps is shown in Fig. 4, and as the other is similar it is unnecessary to show more than one. Each clamp consists, essentially, of a curved strip of steel e, having a serrated edge e, which is adapted to grasp the material to be drawn over the edge of the former in the manner shown in Fig. 4:. The strip 6 is mounted upon a rigid metal loop c and is loosely but non-detachably fixed to the under side of the former by means of the staples 6 e through which the sides of the loop 6 pass. At the apex of the loop are a cam and lever d, which when turned down, as shown in Fig. 4, draw the strip 6 away from the edge, carrying with it the attached strip of material F, thereby drawing it tightly around the angles of the former.

It is obvious that while I have shown a universal ball-and-socket joint B with a clamping 17 many other forms of universal joint might be used, and I do not limit my invention to any particular form.

The mode of operation of this apparatus is as follows: The former being in any convenient position-say as in Fig. 1the strip shown in Fig. 3 is inserted between hooks cl and the edge of the former and is thus held in position extending the entire length of the curved portion of the former. A sheet of backing for the cushion is then laid upon the surface of the former, the straight edge coming under the hooks d d. The strip of the proper flexible material is then attached to the sheet of backing by nailing, the strip of flexible material being shown at G in Fig. 1 and the nails being shown at g g. The nails penetrating the backing are clenched by coming in contact with the iron plate of the former. The flexible strip is then forcibly drawn tightly around the edges by means of a number of clamps like that shown in Fig. 4. The nails are then driven around the edge of theformer, attaching the flexible strip to the strip shown in Fig. 3, the nails being clenched against the iron edge of the former. While the work is in process of construction, the former may be tilted into any desirable position or turned in any direction by means of the universal joint shown at B. The work of thus forming the backs and foundations for cushions is thus very largely facilitated.

What I claim is 1. In an upholsterers former, the combination of a metal clenching-plate, and hooks attached thereto to form sockets into which the work to be operated upon may be carried, substantially as described.

2. In an upholsterers former, the combination of a metallic clenching-plate mounted upon a universal joint, hooks attached thereto substantially as described to form sockets to hold the Work to be operated upon, an ad-'

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