Method for fixing anchor clips to a furniture rail

A method for mounting a plurality of clips at the same time to a furniture rail having a top surface, a bottom surface and opposite side surfaces comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of spaced apart clip-dispensing tools each having a magazine;
• arranging the clip-dispensing tools side-by-side, whereby, the clip magazines are aligned, respectively, with an outlet end of each machine;
• positioning each tool adjacent to and generally perpendicular to one outer side surface of the furniture rail with the magazines being generally parallel to each other and each being generally perpendicular to the one side surface of the rail;
• feeding to the magazine of each clip-dispensing tool, in a direction generally perpendicular to the one side surface of the rail, an elongate strip of metal anchor clips including a series of separate, identical anchor clips, each clip comprising a body and at least one prong extending from the body and each clip being assembled end-to-end in a line and held together in the line by a strip of flexible material fixed to each clip, and pounding or striking the at least one prong of the clip at the front of each magazine at approximately the same time into the one outer side surface of the furniture rail, thereby mounting a plurality of the clips required by the furniture fail to the one outer side surface of the rail at approximately the same time to greatly reduce the time it takes to secure a plurality of clips to the furniture rail.