Lear Seating Corporation

Lear Siegler Seating Corporation

Eric F Kozlowski

The method of making a cushion assembly uses a trim layer and cushion pad with an adhesive therebetween. The adhesive is a hot melt adhesive applied to the contoured surface of the cushion pad and reheated on the cushion pad prior to use thereof in the subject process. An adhesive activator is applied to the trim layer, which had been previously placed on a mold. The cushion pad and trim layer are compressed against one another with the adhesive and activator therebetween to bond the cushion pad and trim layer together.

Method of bonding a seat trim cover to a foam cushion utilizing an

The subject invention provides a method and assembly (10) for upholstering a foam cushion (16) with fabric (12, 14). A locator strip (10) accurately positions the fabric (12) upon the cushion (16). The locator strip includes an array of U-shaped pockets (30) along one edge which are separated by finger-like projections (32). A thin fracturable filament (40) is fixedly attached to the distal end (34) of the projections (32) to enclose the pockets (30). The locator strip (10) is sewn between the edges (18, 20) of two fabrics (12, 14) with thread (36) stitches passing through the pockets (30) and around the projections (32). The locator strip (10) functions to guide the edges (18, 20) of the two fabric covers (12, 14) into an elongated slot (22) in the cushion (16). After the fabric covers (12, 14) have been bonded to the cushion (16), the locator strip (10 ) is pulled against the stitches and the thin filament (40) breaks and bends around the stitches so that the entire locator strip (10) is removed from the two covers (12, 14) and the cushion (16) in one piece.

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Rochester, MI, United States of America

Eric F Kozlowski