US1452882A - Seat cover - Google Patents

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J. J. LOESCH SEAT COVER Filed oct. 24. 1921 Patentv Apr. 24, l1923.

" STATES PATENT oFFlcE.

lIIOHN J. LOESCH,

SEAT COVER.

Application led October 24, 1921.- Serial No. 509,902.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, JOHN J. Lonscn, a citizen ofthe United States of America, a resident of the-city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Im. rovements in Seat Covgers, of which the ollowin .is a full, clear, and exact description, re erence being had to the accompanying drawings, this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in seat covers, the main object being to produce a strong, neat, simple and inexpensive seat cover adapted for the seats of automobiles. y

More specifically stated, an object isto produce a device of this kind having a seat member and a back member made of woven fabric, for example, woven straw matting. The invention lies `in the manner in which the seat and back members Iare reinforced and in the means for connecting the seat member to the back member.

In the preferred form of the invention, the seat and back members are made of coarse, woven fabric, such as straw matting, and the margins of each sheet of fabric are reinforced by a binding strip embracing and secured to the fabric so as to enclose the marginal edges thereof. To provide an extremely simple and inexpensive hinge connection, the binding strip on the seat member is secured to the binding strip on the back member. These binding strips are preferably made of flexible material and they may be connected together by means of stitches to form a hinge uniting the seat and back members.

ySince the coarse, Woven fabric is relatively weak, especially near its margins, the hinge is4 preferably reinforced bymarginal rein forcing strips, and each sheet of fabric is preferably reinforced by intermediate strips extending from one margin of the sheet to the other, so as to effectively unite the elements of the fabric between said margins.

With the foregoing and other'lo'bjects in view, the invention comprises the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawin wherein is shown the referred ernb iment of the invention. owever, it 1s to be understood that the invention compreforming a part of be as will be hereafter described,

variations and modifications which come Within the scope of the claims hereunto appended.

F1`g. is a perspective view of a seat cover embodying the features of this invention.

Fig. II 1s a top view, onI a larger scale, showing the device as it appears when the back member is folded onto the seat memhends changes,

r. Fig. III is an enlarged section showing -the hinge whereby the back member is secured.- to the seat member.

To illustrate lone form of the invention, I have vshown a seat A and a backB, each comprising a substantially square sheet of woven straw matting 1 and a flexible bindmg strip 2 surrounding and embracing all of the margins of the sheet 1. Each binding strip 2 maybe a single piece of exible material, such as imitation leather, with its ends united by stitches 3, shown in Fi' II. Stitches 4 pass throu h both edges o the binding strip 2 and a so through the interposed matting, so as to securely connect the strlp to the four margins of the matting.

vTo form a simple hinge connection, one of the edges ofthe back member B is placed upon an edge of the seat member A, as shown most clearly in Fig. III, and at these adjacent edges the binding strips 2 are preferably extended beyond the matting and connected together by means of stitches 5 which pass entirely through the folds at the extendf ed ortions of the strips. As shown by Fig. II the stitches 5 pass through four thicknesses of material, and they are formed longitudinall of the connected margins thereby secure y uniting the binding strips at these margins. The bindin strips are flexible and they cooperate wi't the strips 5 to form a hinge allowing the back member B to be unfolded from a position on thev seat member A to the'service position shown by dotted lines in Fig. III and by full lines in Fig.` I.

Since the matting is subjected to rather severe strains at the hinge connection, each sheet of matting ^is provided with a relatively wide reinforclng strip 6 arranged parallel with the hinge and overlap ed by the marginal binding strip 2 at the iinged mar `n. The outer margin of each reinforclng strip 6 is secured by the stitches 4, as shown in Fig. III, and the inner margin is securedby stitches 7 which pass through TO EVB KLEAN SEAT PAD CO., O

the matting and also through the strip 6. Each Wide reinforcing strip 6 is thus secured to the hinge and also to the matting at points remote from the hinge, so the matting is not liable to be torn apart or un- Woven at the hinged margins.

The matting is further reinforced by intermediate reinforcing strips 8 parallel with the strips 7. Each sheet of matting is provided with two of the intermediate strips 8 and the ends of said strips 8 are lapped by the strip 2 at opposite margins of the sheet. The intermediate strips 8 are secured at their ends by the stitches 4 which secure the strip 2, and both longitudinal margins of each strip 8 are secured to the matting by means of stitches 9. These strips 8 are preferably made of leather, or other strong material, and they very effectivelyunite the Woven straws in the matting to prevent separation of the portions of the straws at the strips 8.

The reinforcing strips 6 and 8 of the seat member are on the bottom face thereof and the corresponding strips of the back member are on the rear face thereof, so these strips do not come in Contact with the clothing of the user of the seat cover.

I claim:

l. A seat cover, comprising a seat member of Woven fabric, a separate back member also made of woven fabric having one edge adjacent to one edge of the seat member,

relatively wide reinforcing strips secured to the adjacent edges of said seat and back members, a flexible binding strip surrounding and embracing the marginal edge of each of said members and also embracing the marginal edges of said reinforcing strips, stitches securing said binding strips to said members respectively and the adjacent portions of said binding strips bein extended beyond the Woven fabric at the adjacent edges of said seat and back members, and means securing the extended portions of said binding strips together to forni a hinge uniting said. seat and back members.

2. A seat cover comprising a seat member made of woven fabric, a Hexible binding strip surrounding and embracing the margins of said seat member, stitches securing said binding strip to said seat member, a back member made of woven fabric, a fiexible binding strip surrounding and embracing the margins of. said back member, stitches securing the last mentioned binding strip to said back member, one of the edges of said seat member being adjacent to an edge of said back member and the binding strips being extended beyond the Woven fabric at said edges, and stitches passing through the extended portions of said binding strips to form a hinge uniting said seat and back members. A

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I hereunto aiix my signature.

JOHN J. LOESCH.

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