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US 5,720,234 AGranted
Air bag
AssigneeAlliedSignal Deutschland GmbH
InventorBarbel Hammer
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AssigneeAlliedSignal Deutschland GmbH
InventorBarbel Hammer
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The present invention provides a method of making an air bag comprising joining pieces of fabric together by stitching in substantially straight lines so as to facilitate automated machine stitching of the pieces. Preferable a generally rectangular piece is stitched to four triangular pieces. Preferably there are two large triangular and two small triangular pieces and each are irregular triangles with three different sides though the large and small triangular pieces may have one side the same length as another side. The total sum of the lengths of the other four sides should equal the length of the long side of the rectangle. Such pieces are joined by attaching the long sides of the triangular pieces to end regions of the long sides of the rectangular piece, folding the resultant shape, joining respective adjoining second sides of the triangular pieces, displacing the apexes of the joined pieces so that the third sides of the respective triangles form a straight line with the long sides of the rectangle, and joining the third sides of the respective triangles to unjoined parts of the long sides of the rectangle.
A method of making an air bag comprising the steps of cutting a generally rectangular piece of air bag fabric and cutting four triangular pieces of air bag fabric and sewing each of said triangular pieces to the long sides of said generally rectangular piece, folding the resulting structure generally in half transversely, sewing abutting edges including the short edges of the generally rectangular piece and respective abutting edges of the triangles, subsequently displacing the apexes of said triangles so as to align the remaining unjoined sides of each triangle with the respective unjoined edges of the rectangle and stitching the resultant aligned edges together in substantially straight lines.
A cutting pattern for making an air bag, from a length of air bag fabric which fabric has two parallel longitudinal edges, the pattern comprising a generally rectangular shape and four right-angled triangular shapes wherein two of said triangular shapes form a first pair and are substantially identical and are larger than the other two which are also substantially identical and which form a second pair, said pairs of triangular shapes being arranged with their long sides adjacent each other and the other sides being respectively substantially parallel and perpendicular to the longitudinal edges of the fabric, and a generally rectangular piece corresponding to said generally rectangular shape being arranged with its long sides substantially parallel to the longitudinal edge of the fabric and all pieces being juxtaposed on the fabric with straight sides adjacent one another.
A cutting pattern for making an air-bag from a length of air bag fabric which fabric has two parallel longitudinal edges spaced apart by a predetermined distance, the pattern comprising two generally rectangular shapes and eight right-angled triangular shapes wherein the two generally rectangulr shapes are arranged parallel to each other and to the long sides of the fabric and wherein the triangular shapes are arranged in pairs with their long sides adjacent each other to form generally square shapes, the other sides of each triangular shape being respectively substantially parallel and substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal edge of the fabric.
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