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US 4,062,087 AGranted
Self-sustaining spring fastener clips for furniture rails and assemblies thereof
AssigneeHartco Company
InventorHarrison Church Lingle
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AssigneeHartco Company
InventorHarrison Church Lingle
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A metallic clip designed for holding the end bar of a sinuous cushion-supporting spring in position on one rail of an article of furniture and also having associated therewith jaw portions which straddle the rail and, when pressed inwardly against the rail, seize the sides of such rail and maintain the clip firmly in position on the rail. In one form of the invention, a string of such clips are held together in slightly spaced side-by-side fashion by a liner strip which is seated within the reentrant or reverse bends of the clips so that individual clips may be successively severed from the strip for application to the rail. In a modified form of the clip, means are provided whereby the clips may be stacked together loosely against complete separation so that individual clips may be successively removed from the stack at will for rail application. In either form, the string or stack is adapted for magazine feeding in association with a suitable automatic clip-applying tool by means of which the clips are successively applied to the rail.
A self-supporting integral one-piece clip for securing the laterally turned end of a sinuous upholstery spring to the wooden rail an article of furniture, said clip being formed from an elongated strip of sheet metal stock and comprising:
An upholstery anchor clip assembly for use in the magazine of a clip-applying tool, said assembly comprising a plurality of identical, generally U-shaped sheet metal clips having flat base portions adapted to seat on a planar surface of a furniture rail, upper overlying portions of less longitudinal extent than that of the base portions, interconnecting curved reentrant bends at corresponding ends of the base portions for receiving the end bars of respective upholstery springs, and depending jaw portions at the opposite ends of said base portions, said clips being disposed in a longitudinal row in side-by-side spaced relationship, and a narrow elongated carrier strip which is coextensive with said row, said carrier strip being in the form of a length of flexible cushioning liner material which is curved in transverse cross section and adhesively bonded to the inner sides of the reentrant bends substantially coextensively therewith so as to bridge the distance between adjacent clips, whereby when successive clips are removed from the assembly for application to a furniture rail by severing the curved carrier strip midway between adjacent clips, the severed portions of the carrier strips which remain with the removed clips overhang the end edges of the reentrant bends to prevent such edges from direct contact with the rail.
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