Upholstery fabric
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorsFrank Robinson, Gerald F. Day, Keith Jeffcoat
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Abstract
A piece of upholstery fabric for covering three-dimensional supports such as vehicle seat bases and seat backs is machine knitted, preferably in a mainly double jersey structure, with integral tubular portions. These serve as anchorage devices for securing the fabric piece to the support which it is to cover using rods or tapes which are threaded through the tubular portions. The tubular portions may be located at the margins of the fabric piece and also at intermediate positions where the fabric piece needs to be held down, for example in a depression in the support. They may project from a surface of the fabric piece and may be like loops or they may be in the form of tubular hems or a tube lying between front and rear surfaces of a double jersey structure.
Claims11
A piece of machine-knitted upholstery fabric for covering at least part of a surface of a three-dimensional support, characterised by one or more portions of tubular fabric integrally knitted with the upholstery fabric piece at location(s) where each such tubular portion can serve as an anchorage device for facilitating the securing of the upholstery fabric piece to said support.
A piece of upholstery fabric for covering at least a part of the surface of a three-dimensional support formed by machine knitting one or more portions of tubular fabric integrally with the upholstery fabric piece at location(s) where each such tubular portion can serve as an anchorage device for facilitating the securing of the upholstery fabric piece to said support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.