Seat bun fastening strip

Claim 1

A fastening strip for resilient, molded plastic cushions, such as molded foam-plastic seat buns and the like, for fastening such cushions to other objects, such as to a seat spring-type support structure or a cloth-like upholstery covering material applied upon said cushion, comprising: a long, narrow strip, formed of an open lattice-like, wide mesh made of thin, transversely arranged, coplanar strands joined together at their points of intersection; each joint formed by the intersections of crossing strands being slightly enlarged transversely out of the plane of the strip for thereby interlocking with the plastic material forming the cushion; a relatively stiff, wire-like rod extending along the lengthwise direction of the strip at about the center of the strip roughly perpendicular to some of and parallel to the remaining of said mesh strands; and means securing said rod upon a face of the strip; said securing means comprising a narrow cloth-like tape extending the length of the strip and overlapping the rod and a portion of the strip at opposite sides of the rod, with the tape secured to the strip along opposite sides of the rod by means of a row of stitches arranged at each side of and adjacent to the rod and extending through the tape and engaging the strands which are roughly perpendicularly arranged relative to the tape, so that the rod is held in place between the face of the strip and the tape; said rod being in the form of a thin, relatively stiff wire, covered with a protective wrapper frictionally gripped against the strip strands which are overlapped by the rod and also the adjacent surface of the tape, with the rod being otherwise substantially free of securement to the strip and tape; whereby the strip may be completely embedded within and at a short distance beneath an exposed surface of a cushion during the molding of such cushion, with the rod being inwardly of the strip relative to the cushion exposed surface, so that ringlike fasteners may be partially extended into the cushion to engage around the rod for anchoring thereto, with fasteners extending outwardly of said cushion surface for fastening to an object to be secured to said cushion.