Heavy Duty
This seam adds an extra layer of material to all high impact areas of a game. It is typically found on entrances, side walls that meet floors, slide paths, climbing lanes and around any type of protrusions from a wall or floor. It is very strong as it lets the thread have a stronger bite into the material, and at the same time gives high impact events a larger area to dissipate energy, thereby reducing stress from the target area.

Heavy Duty With Glue Strips & Spots
This is our strongest seam. Typically it is found on water games primarily to reduce the amount of water that will penetrate into a game. This seam is also found on entry and exits to our slides. By gluing a strip to both panels, the amount of stress put on the threads of a sewn seam is greatly reduced. The strip will pull on the panel in a shear direction and add a tremendous amount of strength to the overall connection. This seam is also found on many of our Gator Mouth^TM connections. Some FEC applications will utilize glue spots per the customers request, or as the needs dictate.

Gator Mouth^TM Seams
This seam is a very strong seam that is found on the entrances and exits of our slides, and most places that a middle wall is placed on a game. The Gator Mouth^TM moves the seam back up to 8”from where the normal point of impact would be. All Gator Mouth^TM seams use a Heavy Duty seam method, and some also incorporate our Glue Strips method.

Hot Air Welding
Hot Air Welding is a method of making a seam that forces hot air between 2 layers of material and fuses them into one. This is a very strong seam when used in certain applications. Our typical welded seam is 2” and is only used on applications where the force of direction on the seam is in the shear direction. The Hippo^TM, slide cover sheets, and some of our other products utilize hot air welding.