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US 7,828,664 B2Granted
Upholstery fabric tack strips and methods of making same
OwnerDavid L. Haygood, Gary T. Schwertnerinventors
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Abstract
An upholstery tack strip includes a metal ribbon and a thermoplastic sleeve covering at least a portion of the ribbon. The sleeve includes at least one, and possibly a pair of, lengthwise removed strip section(s) so as to expose a corresponding lengthwise surface of the metal ribbon. The metal ribbon integrally includes nail sections which protrude outwardly from said tack strip. At least one, and preferably both, lateral edges of the metal ribbon are knurled or serrated so as to assist in anchoring the ribbon to the sleeve.
Claims5
A method of forming an upholstery tack strip comprising:
- (i) forming a composite tack strip preform comprised of a metal ribbon stock and a sleeve formed of a plastics material covering a length of the metal ribbon stock;
- and thereafter
- (ii) forming the upholstery tack strip by punching a plurality of outwardly extending nails from the metal ribbon stock of the composite tack strip preform thereby simultaneously creating respective apertures in the metal ribbon stock and remnants of the sleeve which extend downwardly through the apertures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.