This invention relates to a method for manufacturing removable linings to snugly wrap articles having a tridimensional outline. Such a method, which starts from a roll of fabric, of a nonwoven fabric, knitted fabric, meshed fabric and other fabrics, manufactures such linings continuously through a sequence of operations which are carried out in orderly marshalled stations. The finished linings thus obtained has, on the end folds of at least one of two opposite sides, a crease of the same folds sewn in the vicinity of the two nonfolded sides of the fabric piece. An additional and preferred embodiment exhibits corrugation members which can slide within seatings formed by an edging, said edging and said corrugation members being, in their turn, enclosed within the crease of said folds.
A fitted sheet with draw string sewn in a hem on the peripheral edges. The edges are fashioned so that the final shape of the hem, when the sheet is installed on the mattress is not parallel to the edges of the mattress and forms a curve resembling an ellipse beneath the mattress providing for the enhanced distribution of the tension substantially throughout and across the sheet face.
A wound-up cylindrical package is provided of a substantially non-stretchable fabric that has edge regions in which different amounts of elastic elements are incorporated. The fabric is subsequently removed from the package without excessive gathering or twisting for convenient use as a skirt material in the fabrication of a fitted mattress cover.
The present invention discloses a fitted lower sheet having an elastic draw string which can be adjusted in length so that the fitted sheet can be located on any mattress within a range of nominal mattress sizes. A two part fastener located one part in the fitted lower sheet and one part in an upper covering is also disclosed to permit the upper covering to be releasably secured to the lower sheet. The upper covering can be either an upper sheet or quilt cover. The case of two fasteners and both a releasably secured upper sheet and quilt cover is also disclosed.
A sheet is provided for dressing a mattress. The sheet may be formed from a tube of knit fabric having spaced apart ends closed by end seams normal to the longitudinal axis of the tube. The tube is longitudinally open, from end to end, to provide an opening for application of the sheet to a mattress.
A fitted bed sheet and a method of making the sheet from a rectangular blank of sheet material are disclosed. Resiliently extensible strips having catches positioned at predetermined locations along the strips are enclosed within longitudinal, open-ended sheaths extending along opposite marginal edges of the blank. One end of each strip extends out of the open end of the sheath and the other end is anchored to the sheath. The blank is folded inwardly upon itself along fold lines to dispose the sheaths in a spaced apart, generally parallel relationship on the blank to form laterally opposed double-layered panels. Seams are then formed diagonally across the corners of the panels from adjacent the end of the sheaths to points along the fold lines so that a fitted sheet is formed. When the sheet is placed on a mattress, it is drawn into fitting engagement by pulling on the extended ends of the extensible strips and placing the catches over edges of the open ends of the sheaths.
