US1353885A - Beading - Google Patents

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E. W. AUFDERHEIDE.

BEADING.

APPLICATION. HI.ED OCT. 10. une.

1,353,885. Patented8epfi 28, 1920.

2 8HEETS-SNEET l.

E. W. AUFDERHEIDE.

BEADING.

APILlCATION msn on. 10. I919.

UNiTED STATES PATENT Ta aZlcvfiom de my concem 7 Be 1t kno wn that I, Epwnnn Aornnn- HEI DE, a 'c1t1zen of.the United States, and a res1dent of the citybf Chiag0, in the,ont of Cook and State of Illinols, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beading; and I do hereby declaretht the foliowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, accompanying d1awings, and to the numerals of reference marked thereon, -vvlnich form a part of this speoification.

This invention relates to improvemen in beading employed in covering the edges of the upholstered portions of furniture, automobiles and the like.

It has been proposed to make beading by driving nails or tacks along the center line of a rip oi leather and then folding the edges 1nward t0 butt against each other and finally applying a cover thereto. This method is disadvantageous in many respects. In the first place, a groove appears along the center of the beading when the tacks are driven home to secure the beading in place. Further, a good round form cann0t be obtained b v folding once a single strip 01 material. Again. if the material is of suflcient thickness so that by i:olding once the beading has the desired dimensions, the latter is very stif and it is diflcult to curve it to correspond with the curved edge of the upholstering.

It is an object, therefore, of the present invention to provide an improved form of beading for upholstered articles.

Another object of the invention is to provide a substantially round form of beading.

A further object of the invention is to provide a more flexible form of beading.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a form of beading which will retain its round form after the tacks embedded therein have been driven home.

Other and further important objects of this invention will be apparent from the disclosures in the drawings and specificatien.

The. invention (in a preferred form) is illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter more fully described.

According to the present invention the beading is formed from a. relatively wide strip of comparatively thin material, such.

reference beirig had' to the Speciflcatien ef Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 28, 1920. Application filed October 19, 1919. Serial No. 329,790.

as 10 oz. dulck canvas. This is folded longitudinally one or more times, nails are inserted, then one edge i,s tumed inward over the nail hasand th otheidge folded in- Ward over the first d e. Finally a suitable cover Lis apPlidx he variou s plies of fabric are secnred. together and the cover is attached to the fi)ld"ed fabric;by a flexible form of glue or cinnt, slias rubber cement, to allow the cdnipletedbading to flex as desired.

In formingfithibeading any suitable form of apparatus inay' bempl0ed, such as that illustmted diagrammhticall in the accOrnpanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a diagrummatic side view of a machine for making my improved beading.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a side View of the completed beading.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same.

ig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of F ig. I.

F ig. 6 is a section on the line 66 of Fig. 1

Fig. 7 is Fig. 1.

ig. Fig. 3.

Fig. 9 is an and view of the beading pulled apart at its end to show its construction more clearly.

As shown in the drawings:

The canvas strip or tape 1, from which the beading is to be made, is wound on a. reel 2 after passing it through a bath of rubber cernent or otherwise treating it to malte it tacky. From this reel the strip 1 passes over a roller 3 arranged perpendicular to the reel bv Which it is given a single longitudinal fold. Next the strip passes around a roll 4 parallel to the reel 2, by Which the folded tape is refolded to grive a four-ply strip. The strip then passes under a tack delivering and applying device 5 by means of which tacks 11 are driven through the center portion of the strip at rgular intervals.

Now the edges of the strip are folded inward by drawing the strip through a con ical former 6, WlllCh causes the ed S te overlap each other above the heads ozhe tacks, as shown more particularly in Fig. 8. The beading is then ready for the application a section on the line 77 of 8 is a section on the line 88 of thereto of a cover 7 of leather, cloth or other heir heads embedded in the folded strp of material similar to that used for the upfabric.

holstering of the articles to which the bead- 2. Beading comprising a strip of abric ing is applied. twce folded longitudinally, a line of mails This cover strip 7 is fed from a mal 8 passed throngh t;hfl portion of the around a roll 9 immediately above the beaddouble folded strip, the edges of the folded ing so that the two pass together into a secstrip being tumed forward to oveflap each 0nd c0nical former 10 by means of which other and cover the nail heads, and an outer thecover is wrapped moundthe beading. cover around the folded fabrie.

The final step is the passage of the cov- 3. A method of forming beading includered bending between a pair of grooved rolls ing f01ding a strip 0f fabric longitudinally, 12, 13 to ive the beading auniform rounded ref0lding the folded strip longitudinahy, smooth s mpe. The beading is then wound insertizgg mails along a line down the cen;er upon a mal 14. nf the refolded stx;ip, then turfii ng 011e edg e I am aware that nume1ons details of coninward over the nail heads and the other struction may be varied through a wide edge inw;ard over the first edge and finally range without departing from the principles ap ying a n outarcover. of this invention, and I therefore do not n te saimo1y whereo I have hereunbo.sub-

pm39ose limiting the patent granced otherscribed my name 111 the presence of two sub-,

wise than necessitad by the prior art. scribing witnessefi.

Lclnm as my mventxon: y 7 1. Beading comprising a strip of fabric EDWARD AUFDERHIDE' folded 'mto substantiafly cy1indrical form, VVmesses;

un enter q0ver, and Jacks having their EA}3L HAfiuI ;}IE, points projgctng beyond the beading and Camus W. HILLS

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