Electric heating source for seats and mattresses and methods of application of the same

Claim 1

In an electric source for seats, fabrics, blankets, mattresses, stretchers and the like involving the use of resistance heating means and the arrangement of these in a fabric of insulating warp and weft strands, the improved construction wherein the heating source consists essentially of at least one heating circuit being formed by an arrangement of substantially parallelly running resistance wires traversed by substantially parallel conducting wires of relatively low resistance, said arrangement of wires forming substantially square-shaped sections of predetermined size, said at least one heating circuit being combined with a suitable insulating carrier material, said parallel resistance wires being interwoven in parallel groups in said fabric, said resistance wires running through current circuits in the fabric between which they are interrupted and in which several heating sections are formed, said resistance wires in the current circuits being transversely interwoven with groups of conducting wires which are connected to conductive feeder wires located adjacent the ends of the conducting wires.