Remote manufacture of furniture covers
AssigneeCameleon Loose Covers Pty Ltd.
InventorsThomas Michael Park, Robert Geoffrey Park
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Abstract
A method of remotely manufacturing a cover for an article, such as a piece of upholstered furniture includes the steps of: ascertaining dimensional data of the article, and relating the data to individual portions of the article, determining a group of physically inter-related templates associated with these individual portions. Each template is definable on a plane of co-oridinates and is derived from a series of mathematical functions evaluated using this data, and using each template to form a corresponding cover piece and joining the cover pieces to form the cover for the furniture article.
Claims15
A method of manufacturing a cover for an article of furniture, said method comprising the steps of:
- ascertaining dimensional data of said article, and relating said data to individual portions of said article,
- determining a group of physically inter-related templates associated with said portions, each said template being definable on a plane of co-ordinates and being derived from a series of mathematical functions evaluated using said data,
- generating curves for each said template using points on each curve and defining each curve by a mathematical formula, and,
- using each said template to form a corresponding cover piece and joining the cover pieces to form said cover.
A method of manufacturing a cover for an article of furniture comprising the steps of:
- ascertaining dimensional data of said article along 2 dimensional planes and relating said data to individual portions of said article,
- choosing and measuring vertical and horizontal end points for each curve on said article of furniture,
- defining each curve by a code,
- formulating templates from said data, end points and the code for each curve, said templates being associated with said individual portions and each said template is definable on a plane of co-ordinates derived from a series of mathematical functions;
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- using each said template to form a corresponding cover piece and joining the cover pieces to form said cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.