Textile article

A method of making a shaped unitary composite puffy scented textile article which comprises providing a sealing die plate and a negative die plate, each of said die plates having at least one cavity, said negative die plate matching said sealing die plate and having a mating cavity smaller in overall size than that of said sealing die plate, said sealing die plate having a peripheral steel rule die about its cavity, said steel rule die being in the shape of the periphery of the textile article, said sealing die plate having an inner spring-loaded brass die parallel and adjacent to and within said steel rule die, said brass die normally extending out beyond the edge of said steel rule die, providing a flat planar sheet of insulating material, cutting a pattern from said sheet of insulating material, said pattern including an opening having the same shape and size as the cavity in said negative die plate, securing said sheet of insulating material to said negative die plate so that said pattern cannot shift, with the opening in said sheet of insulating material being in registration with the cavity in said negative die plate, disposing said sealing die plate and said negative die plate in juxtaposed registration, with the insulating sheet-covered side of said negative die plate facing said sealing die plate, inserting between the registered sealing die plate and negative die plate, successively and in planar parallelism, a first layer of gas-permeable cloth, a plurality of planar plies of spongy resilient filler, at least one fragrance pill, said pill being disposed between said plies, at least one sheet of a thermally activatable bonding agent, and a second layer of gas-permeable cloth, all of said layers, plies and sheet overlapping and coinciding and being larger than and extending beyond the area defined by said steel rule die, moving said sealing die plate and said negative die plate from a juxtaposed position to a contiguous position relative to each other for a finite time interval, generating an elevated temperature during at least a finite portion of said finite time interval by means of a radio frequency generator juxtaposed with said sealing die plate and opposite to said negative die plate, so that peripheral sealing and bonding of said layers and interposed bonding agent sheet and plies takes place in a sealed and bonded peripheral zone, said insulating material sheet serving to insulate and to prove radio frequency return during said finite portion of said finite time interval, exerting a force against said sealing die plate toward said negative die plate, said negative die plate being fixed, so that said brass die is retracted into said sealing die plate and said steel rule die cuts the textile article away from peripheral material about said sealed and bonded zone, and removing the resulting textile article from between said sealing die plate and said negative die plate.