Protective cover, particularly an antimacassar

Claim 1

An inexpensive disposable protective cover of fibre material such as non-woven material, intended to be applied as a protective cover on a substructure such as those intended for sitting or lying, e.g. as an antimacassar for seats, there being at least one row of stitching running across the cover and sewn into the cover in double chain stitching fashion with such thread structure that it forms an attachment for the hooks of a burr strip attached to the surface of the aforesaid substructure, characterized in that an upper thread and a lower thread are used to form the stitching, the upper thread of the double chain stitching consists of a relatively highly elastic thread of multifilament type having crimped filaments which are loosely arranged to form a fluffy thread, the upper thread being sewn through the cover and forming consecutive loops on the lower side of the cover and consecutive portions on the upper side of the cover, while the lower thread of the double chain stitching consists of a cotton or cotton-synthetic thread which is relatively unelastic in relation to the upper thread, and that the tension in the upper thread is less than the tension in the lower thread to that the upper thread assumes its fluffy and voluminous condition on the lower side of the cover to thereby form an easily entanglable fastening for the hooks of the burr strip.