Patent ID: 8272697

Claim:
An inward hanging method for a trim cover of a vehicle seat, the vehicle seat including a cushion pad having a central part and bank faces developed rightwardly and leftwardly of the central part, the method being configured to inwardly hang the trim cover along boundaries between the central part and the bank faces of the cushion pad, respectively, the method comprising: cutting out multiple workpieces to be formed into the trim cover; applying gathers to portions of the cut out workpieces, the gathered portions corresponding to lateral inward hanging ends located at lateral end portions of inward hanging margins of the cut out workpieces for lateral inward hanging; sewing up the cut out workpieces subjected to the gathering, in a manner to curve, into inward hanging directions, the inward hanging margin portions of the workpieces subjected to the gathering by contraction of obverse surface materials of the workpieces by virtue of the gathering, to thereby form the trim cover; mounting inward hanging members to sewing edges of the trim cover; and, performing inward hanging by covering the sewn trim cover into longitudinal inward hanging grooves formed along boundaries between the central part and the bank faces of the cushion pad, and by engagingly attaching engagement fasteners into and/or between the inward hanging members mounted to the sewing edges of the trim cover and engagement members formed at a cushion pad side or at a frame side on which the cushion pad is placed, to thereby inwardly hang the trim cover.