US811407A - Fabric for air goods. - Google Patents

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No. 811,407. PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

IL P. KEIL. FABRIU FUR AIR GOODS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1905.

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HENRY FRANCIS KEIL, OF BRONXVILLE, NEW YORK.

FABRIC FOR AIR GOODS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 30, 1906.

Application filed June 12,1905. Serial No. 26 L950.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY FRANGIs KEIL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Bronxville, in the county of Wcstchester and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Fabric for Air Goods, of which the following is a specification, the same being a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to inflatable and deflatable beds, cushions, and analogous devices, and has especial relation to the construction of a fabric for mattresses and the like, which mattresses ordinarily have tiepieces or stays extending from the upper and lower portions thereof designed to be used with a view of keeping the parts of the cushion, &c., in proper relative position and of strengthening the entire body of the same, the said beds, 620., being easily portable and when inflated being comfortable, so as to readily conform to the different positions taken by the user, which beds, &c., will retain the air under all normal conditions; and ithas for its object the provision of an article of the class described which will be economical to manufacture and BII'IGIGDI] and durable in ractical use.

With this object in view the invention con sists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described, and specifically pointed out in the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification, and in which Figures 1 and 4 represent plan views of fabrics for air goods constructed according to my invention. Figs. 3 and 6 are side elevations of the fabric shown, respectively, in Figs. 1 and 4, having oppositely-disposed stays attached together; and Figs. 2 and 5 are elevations looking sidewise at Figs. 1 and 4, respectively.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the views.

Referring particularly to the drawings, A denotes a fabric suitable to be used in the construction of inflatable beds, cushions, or like pneumatic devices made of suitable flexible sheet material. Heretofore stays or tiebands for holding the upper and lower fabrics of a cushion, bed, &c., together have been constructed. independently of the said fabrics and separately applied to the fabric subsequent to the completion of the same, the said stays or tie-bands being ordinarily attached or fastened to the fabric after the same has been treated with a coating of an air-proof and preferably elastic material, as rubber. In a pneumatic mattress made according to my invention, however, the fabric and the ends of the stay are held together by means of flexible threads or filaments, as by having the said stay-ends woven in and forming a part of the said fabric, as in Figs. 1 to 3, where the stay-ends a are formed of loops of thread which are dropped in the process of weaving the fabric A, which fabric and stayends are thus held together by means of flexible threads or filaments. Small rings a are passed through the said loops, which, together with suitable connecting means, as rings A or hooks A, serve to hold the oppositely-disposed pairs of stay-ends together.

In the fabric A (shown in Figs. 4 to 6) are woven flat cross loops or stays a for use in. cases where great streiiigth of material is required. Small rings or rivets of serve as a means for attachment of the cord a and snap hooks A to the oppositely disposed pairs of stay-ends a My fabric may be treated with a coating of air-proof material, as rubber, in any suitable or desired manner. The said fabric will be found to be very economical in construction and also very durable and serviceable in use and inexpensive to be made up into cushions, mattresses, and the like.

Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what mannor the same is to be performed, it being kept in mind that in law the substitution of equivalents works no variation in the substance of the same, I would have it understood that what I claim as my invention is- 1. In air goods a series of loops of thread dropped at intervals to form a stay-end, said loops being held together between their ends by flexible threads or filaments.

2. In a fabric for air goods a series of loops of thread dropped at intervals to form a stayend, said loops being held together between.

their ends by flexible threads or filaments, in combination with a coating of air-proof material applied to the said fabric.

3. In air goods a stay-end composed of two ICC) parts at right angles to each other, each of I or filaments, in combination with a coating said parts consisting of a series of loops of of air-proofmaterialappliedto the said fabric. thread dropped at intervals to form the stay- In testimony of the foregoing specification end, said loops being held together between I do hereby sign the same, in the city of New I 5 5 their ends by flexible threads or filaments. York, county and State of New York, this 4. In a fabric for air goods a stay-end com- 22d day of May, 1905.

posed of two parts at right an les to each other, each of said parts consistir l g of a series HENRY FRANCIS KEIL' of loops of thread dropped at intervals to Witnesses: 10 form the stay-end, said loops being held to- WM. J. GRAHAM,

gether between their ends by flexible threads JOSEPH FETYK.

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