US3669324A - Cover material feeding and forming apparatus for a quilting machine - Google Patents

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US3669324A
US3669324A US55138A US3669324DA US3669324A US 3669324 A US3669324 A US 3669324A US 55138 A US55138 A US 55138A US 3669324D A US3669324D A US 3669324DA US 3669324 A US3669324 A US 3669324A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32—LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32B—LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B3/00—Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shape; Layered products comprising a layer having particular features of form
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32—LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32B—LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B7/00—Layered products characterised by the relation between layers; Layered products characterised by the relative orientation of features between layers, or by the relative values of a measurable parameter between layers, i.e. products comprising layers having different physical, chemical or physicochemical properties; Layered products characterised by the interconnection of layers
    • B32B7/04—Interconnection of layers
    • B32B7/08—Interconnection of layers by mechanical means
    • B32B7/09—Interconnection of layers by mechanical means by stitching, needling or sewing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B68—SADDLERY; UPHOLSTERY
    • B68G—METHODS, EQUIPMENT, OR MACHINES FOR USE IN UPHOLSTERING; UPHOLSTERY NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B68G11/00—Finished upholstery not provided for in other classes

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  • ABSTRACT Apparatus for feeding cover material into a quilting machine and simultaneously forming the same for covering longitudinal strips of elastic padding supported on a lower base material in order to obtain padding materials tin the form of attached tubes filled with said strips.
  • the cover material is fed along a plane surface by a belt provided with nails. Such surface has projecting parts with the same cross-section and size as the padding tubes to be manufactured.
  • the cover material is gradually forced to adapt itself to such projecting parts by means of chains running in the cavities therebetween and in the same direction as the cover material itself. These chains are driven by pairs of sprockets mounted on two parallel shafts and at the end of said projections, the cover material is contacted .with the padding strips and directed to the needles of the quilting machine.
  • This invention relates to apparatus adapted to prepare, by way of an appropriate shaping operation, a cover material (fabric, plastic material, artificial leather, etc.) to be subsequently applied on a padding cut into longitudinal strips (for example, expanded'polyvinyl chloride, rubber foam, etc.) supported on a supporting material, and to convey the whole towards the needles of a multi-needle quilting machine.
  • a cover material fabric, plastic material, artificial leather, etc.
  • a padding cut into longitudinal strips for example, expanded'polyvinyl chloride, rubber foam, etc.
  • quilted products having their padding material in the form of separate, but attached, longitudinal strips, which will be referred to hereinafter as canes, having a marked height and an aesthetically more valuable appearance than the type of padding obtained by simple compression during and by means of the quilting operation, wherein the padding is in the form of single panels not cut into strips.
  • this type of padding with separate canes offers more comfort, especially for car seats.
  • the quilting operation includes the compression of the inner material, which thus loses part of its elasticity.
  • the quilting is produced in the spaces between the canes, and hence, between the upper cover material and the lower supporting material, without any compression of the padding material, which thus keeps all its elasticity.
  • This type of padding is known and is much in demand on the part of the automobile industries, furniture industries and the like for application to car seats and furniture coverings, but the processes employed at present for the production of said articles are slow, expensive and require an extensive use of labor and are still performed on a manual scale and not on an industrial scale.
  • This means that the single padding strips have to be manually arranged in parallel on the supporting material, fixed thereto with the aid of glue or stitching and subsequently covered by an external cover material and stitched with single needle machines in the spaces between one strip and the next.
  • An object of the apparatus according to this invention is to make it possible to carry out the aforesaid process on an industrial scale, so as to pennit a large increase in production per time unit, a reduced employment of labor and, accordingly, a reduction in costs.
  • This is attained by using a particularly simple device, the function of which is that of shaping the out cover material, so that it may be easily coupled with the padding already cut into strips, the whole being then conveyed to the stitching stage of a multi-needle quilting machine, such as that shown in my copending application Ser. No. 55,381, filed July 16, 1970.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective and diagrammatic view of the ap-' DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT With reference toFIG. l, there, can be seen the table 1 on which there slides, being fed from a feeding roll (not shownin the figure), the material 2 (fabric, plastic material, artificial leather, etc.) which is to constitute the outer cover of the padded article to be produced.
  • the material 2 slides over-the table I pulled by a belt 3 provided with nails 16 which are adapted to grip the material 2.
  • the belt 3 is carried by two pulleys 4, 4', and pulley 4 is drivenby means of two sprockets 5, 5' connected by a chain 6 and driven by the driving means 17 through the coupling 7 so as to, advance the material 2 in synchronism with the needles of the quilting machine.
  • the chain 6 drives two shafts 9 and 9' the ends of which are al lowed to rotate in the supports 10,10.
  • the shafts 9 and 9' are keyed to and drive the spaced sprockets 11, 11' connected together by the specially profiled chains 12.
  • the table 1 is provided with projecting parts 13 having a rectangular section'and the same shape and dimensions as those of the padding canes which are required to be used.
  • the projecting parts 13 begin to lift portions of the material 2 from the table 1, each part 13 having a width and a spacing from the adjacent projecting parts equal to the width and spacing of, the canes which are required in the finished product.
  • the projecting parts 13 have an increasing height which becomes that of the padding strips which will replace said projecting parts 13, when the material 2 has completed its run under the chains 12 and is located beneath the sprockets 1,1.
  • the material 2 which is gradually forced to take the shape indicated in FIG. 2, by being pushed down on the table 1 between one projecting part 13 and the next by the belts l2, and is coupled with the padding strips sustained by a supporting material, in alignment with the sprockets 11'.
  • the material 2 has thereunder, instead of the projecting parts 13, the padding strips. 14 sustained by the foundation material 15 as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the assembled product is now ready to be conveyed to the quilting stage, since once the chains 12 have been left, the chains 12 are replaced by the pressure feet of the multi-needle quilting machine, so that every needle of the latter is situated above the spaces between one can and the next.
  • previously cut padding strips 14 proceed in a known manner on a conveying belt moving in an inclined plane with respect to table 1 and in such a way that they meet the latter in alignment with the points where the chains 12 leave the material 2.
  • the strips 14, sustained by the foundation material 15 meet with appropriate partitions (not shown) substantially in the form of wedges, to make sure that the distance between the strips be the desired one and that the latter align with the projecting parts 13 which have shaped the cover material 2.
  • the upper cover material 2 may also not be unrolled from a feeding roll, but instead, it may be in the form of previously cut panels already shaped, if so desired, and already prepared for the purpose of assembly with the strips of padding materia].
  • the process is similar to the described one, with the difference that the panels are fed one after the other, optionally by hand, onto the table 1 of the apparatus according to this invention, to be then advanced by the quilting needles by the belt 3 provided with nails 16, so as to be quilted and then cut to a desired size.
  • the belt 3 provided with nails 16 and the chains 12 must be designed so as not to cause any damage to the material 2, and in particular said chains 12 must have a width which is not much narrower than the distance between two adjacent projecting parts 13 so as to cause the material 2 to adequately engage to the sides of said projecting parts first and then the sides of the padding strips 14.
  • An important detail of the device according to this invention is the gradual and progressive arrangement of the projecting parts 13 on the table 1, which permits the material 2 to be gradually released and, consequently, enables said outer cover material to adapt itself to the projecting parts and form the required canes.
  • Apparatus for continuously advancing and forming a cover material for multi-layer padded articles comprising said cover material, a base material and intermediate, longitudinally extending and transversely spaced strips of padding material with the cover material secured to the base material intermediate said strips, said apparatus comprising a table having a plurality of projecting, material forming parts having a cross-section corresponding to the cross-section of said strips, said parts extending lengthwise of said table and being spaced transversely thereof to define a plurality of parallel grooves therebetween corresponding in spacing to the spacing of said strips; means for advancing said cover material lengthwise of said table comprising a belt mounted at one side of said table and engageable with said cover material at one end of said parts and extending to the opposite end of said parts, a surface of said belt extending parallel to and lengthwise of said table, and means for driving said belt surface lengthwise of said table in the direction of advance of said cover material; means for pressing said material into said grooves as it is advanced by said belt comprising a plurality of endless chains, one for

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