Cushion retention for a vehicle seat

A vehicle seat comprising:

• a support member having a generally planar support wall;
• a cushion bun of resilient foam for mounting on the support wall of the support member to comfortably seat an occupant on the support member;
• a seat cover for enveloping the cushion bun and having an edge portion and an opening defined by the edge portions of the seat cover;
• a J-shaped extruded plastic strip having a shank portion and a hook portion, the shank portion being attached along the edge portion of the seat cover;
• a flexible retainer wire extending along at least a portion of the edge portion of the seat cover around the opening and being inserted in the J-shaped hook strip, the resilience of the foam bun urging the seat cover outwardly in the direction enlarging the opening so that the retainer wire is captured in the hook portion of the J-shaped strip;
• and attaching means acting between the support member and the retainer wire at spaced intervals along the retainer wire, the resilience of the cushion bun cooperating with the resilience of the retainer wire to maintain tension on the attaching means acting between the support member and the retainer wire.

A vehicle seat comprising:

• a seat support member having a generally planar support wall;
• a cushion bun of resilient foam for mounting on the support wall;
• a seat cover enveloping the cushion bun and having an edge portion defining an opening therein through which the cushion bun is inserted by compressing the cushion bun and then allowing expansion of the cushion bun to fill the seat cover;
• J-shaped hook means having a shank portion attached along the edge portion of the seat cover and a hook portion extending into the opening;
• a flexible retainer wire extending around the edge portion of the seat cover and being engaged by the hook of the J-shaped hook means, the resilience of the foam bun urging the seat cover outwardly in the direction enlarging the opening so that the retainer wire is maintained in captured engagement of the hook portion of the hook means;
• a plurality of abutment means formed integrally with the retainer wire;
• and a pluraity of abutment means carried by the support member and being matingly engageable by the abutment means of the retainer wire to attach the seat cushion on the support member.