Tubular chair leg formed for direct mounting of caster or glide

A metal tubular leg for a chair or the like having a normal or first outer diameter, said tubular leg formed at an end portion thereof to provide thereon integrally therewith a unitary socket having a second outer diameter reduced from said first outer diameter for a glide or a caster, the socket including a unitary sleeve portion having a longitudinal axis and an inner diameter reduced from said second outer diameter by the wall thickness of said tubular leg to receive the shank of a glide or the pintle of a caster, and further including a pair of opposite side rearwardly divergent substantially flat webs whose outer edges are parallel with the axis of said sleeve portion and the distance between said outer edges being only slightly greater than said normal diameter of the metal tubular leg, said webs having double parallel walls produced by folding of the metal of said tubular leg and said sleeve portion having opposing arcuate side walls each being joined integrally with one wall of each web, one of said opposing arcuate side walls positioned forwardly of said pair of rearwardly divergent webs, and said one of said opposing arcuate side walls having a portion in longitudinal alignment with and an extension of said first outer diameter of said tubular leg.