Connection means for assembling furniture

Furniture connection means connecting the underside of a horizontal top component of the furniture to a horizontal and longitudinally extending flange on a supporting component of the furniture which are in face-to-face contacting relation, said connection means comprising means defining a plurality of spaced-apart apertures through said flange along the length thereof, a corresponding plurality of correspondingly spaced-apart studs respectively attached to, and projecting outwardly from said underside of the furniture top component and extending through respectively associated ones of said apertures in said flange portion, each said stud having a shank and a laterally protruding head on the outwardly projecting end of said shank, said heads providing connection shoulders of said studs facing towards, and spaced a common distance away from said flange, and at least one elongated locking clip retaining said face-to-face contacting relation of said flange and said top component, each said locking clip being of thin, resilient and initially flat material and having length to extend across the locations of at least two adjacent ones of said studs and further having at least one pair of substantially arcuate protrusions in the same direction out of its initial plane to provide at least one pair of spring portions of the clip in longitudinally spaced-apart relation within the length of the clip corresponding to the spacing between said two adjacent ones of said studs and having common height at least equal to said spacing distance of said stud shoulders away from said flange, said pair of spring portions being between and engaging said flange and the respective of said shoulders of said two adjacent studs, and each said clip further having means defining a keyhole-shaped opening therethrough associated with each said spring portion, each said opening having a slot portion and widened aperture portion at an end of said slot portion, said aperture portions of said openings being located within said initial plane of the clip and having size to receive one of said stud protruding portions therethrough, and said respective slot portions of said openings associated with said one pair of said spring portions facing in the same direction relative to the length of said clip and respectively extending from its said associated aperture portion across its said associated spring portion protrusion, each of said slot portions being in slidable engagement on the stud shank beneath the connection shoulder of said stud which is associated with the spring portion.