Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Methods – Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-09
2001-07-17
Ball, Michael W. (Department: 1733)
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Methods
Surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
C156S281000, C156S324400, C005S502000, C112S117000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06261397
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a quilting method and system and particularly to a method and system for assembling of the top and bottom quilt covers to the opposite faces of a batting.
A quilt generally consists of a top cover and a bottom cover with an interposed soft batting. The upper or top cover may be formed by sewing small pieces to each other to form a decorative cover. The top and bottom covers are further interconnected in multiple spaced locations by various elements which pass through the batting to hold the batting in place and further contributes to the decorative effect.
In the prior art methods and systems, the covers are first manually secured to each other and the batting by safety pins, tacking usually with a special gun, a basting with needle, or application of a spray set active liquid glue to temporarily hold the cover in place during the forming of a final decorative cover, including a finished connection of the cover and batting. The temporary connections are then manually removed to finish the quilt. The attachment and removal are both tedious and time consuming.
Although widely used, an alternative simpler method and system has not been suggested in the prior art.
The present invention includes a novel and less tedious method and system for use in the craft of quilting.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Generally in accordance with the present invention, the covers are attached to the batting by an inactive adhesive which is activated after assembly of the batting and covers to secure the batting in the necessary position between the covers without the necessity for sewing or other known prior art means which generally require a manual time consuming task for creating and subsequent removal of the temporary attaching means. The inactive adhesive by proper selection may remain part of quilt or removed by washing or the like.
In a preferred method and system, the opposite surfaces of the batting are covered with a thin film of the inactive adhesive and preferably a heat activated inactive adhesive. The inactive adhesive is applied to the batting and the batting sold with the adhesive thereon. Instructions for assembling the covers and activating the inactive adhesive, as by passing a hot iron over the cover are given to secure the cover to the batting. The quilt may then be completed by the known methods of connecting the covers and batting to produce the desired decorative covers.
In summary, an inactive adhesive is interposed between a quilt cover and the adjacent batting to at least temporarily attach the cover to the batting. The bonded quilt covers and batting are then fixedly attached to each other by the usual quilting method and systems to form a decorative cover. The inactive adhesive bonding is preferably applied to attach both covers to the batting for at least the temporary securing of the covers for the subsequent known type of final securing the quilt covers to the inner batting without the prior art necessity of removing temporary connection means.
The inactive adhesive is preferably a heat activated material which is readily activated by the heat of a typical well-known hot ironing unit used for pressing clothing. Other energy or other activated adhesives may be used within the scope of the invention but the heat activated adhesive using a typical hot iron will be readily understood by a typical quilter.
The system reduces the time to complete the quilt and particularly eliminates the time consuming and tedious steps of manually connecting the temporary attachment of the cover and the subsequent removal thereof.
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patent: 2364001 (1944-11-01), Schieman
patent: 3333280 (1967-08-01), Hynek
patent: 3364063 (1968-01-01), Satas
patent: 3794554 (1974-02-01), Caring
patent: 3853595 (1974-12-01), Pedginski et al.
patent: 5958802 (1999-09-01), Wilson
Repp Jilene A.
Yogerst Francis A.
Andrus Sceales, Starke & Sawall
Ball Michael W.
June Tailor Inc.
Piazza Gladys
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