Flanged panel former
AssigneeL&P Property Management Company
InventorRichard N. Codos
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Abstract
An apparatus for forming flanged quilted panels from an infed web of quilted material (18) has a panel cutter (14) which receives the web of quilted material (18) and severs it into discrete quilted panels (16). A flanger (34) integrated with the panel cutter (14) has a table (40) which supports individual panels in a fixed position while a trimming and sewing head (60) is moved around the perimeter of the panel to trim the panel to a desired size and to stitch a flange near the trimmed edge. Because the panel is trimmed prior to stitching, precise alignment of the panel on the table is not required. The flanger (34) may further include a cutting head (72) which is movable relative to the table (40) and enables the flanger (34) to cut very thick quilted material without the need for precise holding and guiding of the material.
Claims21
A quilted panel forming apparatus comprising:
- a quilting station for forming a web of quilted material;
- a panel cutter downstream of the quilting station for cutting discrete panels from said web;
- a table downstream of said panel cutter for receiving and supporting a panel cut from the web;
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- a stitching member supported above said table and movable relative to said table along an outer periphery of the quilted panel supported on said table to thereby stitch the flange proximate the outer edge of the panel.
An apparatus for applying a flange to the outer edge of a quilted panel received from a quilting line, comprising:
- a table downstream of the quilting line for receiving and supporting a panel from the quilting line;
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- a stitching member supported above said table and movable relative to said table along an outer periphery of the quilted panel supported on said table to thereby stitch the flange proximate the outer edge of the panel.
An apparatus for forming a quilted panel and applying a flange to the outer edge of the quilted panel received from a quilting line, comprising:
- a table for receiving and supporting an infed web of quilted material;
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- a cutting member supported above said table and movable relative to said table to cut the infed web into a desired panel shape;
- a stitching member supported above said table, adjacent said cutting member, said stitching member movable relative to said table along an outer periphery of the quilted panel formed by said cutting member to thereby stitch the flange proximate the outer edge of the panel.
An apparatus for forming a flanged quilted panel, comprising:
- a panel cutter adapted to receive an infed web of quilted material and having a cutting element adapted to cut a discrete quilted panel from the web;
- the panel cutter having a table downstream of said panel cutter for receiving and supporting the quilted panel;
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- a stitching member supported above said table and movable relative to said table along an outer periphery of the quilted panel supported on said table to thereby stitch the flange proximate the outer edge of the panel.
A method of forming a flanged quilted panel, comprising:
- receiving an infed web of quilted material at a panel forming station;
- severing from the infed web of quilted material a discrete quilted panel onto a table;
- supporting a quilted panel in a fixed position on the table;
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- moving a stitching head along the outer perimeter the panel to attach a flange proximate outer edges of the panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.