Spring assembly

Claim 1

IN A SPRING ASSEMBLY OF THE TYPE INCLUDING SPACED ROWS OF COIL SPRINGS WITH OUTER CIRCULAR TURNS OF ADJACENT SPRINGS OVERLAPPING ONE WITH ANOTHER IN EACH ROW TO FORM A LENTICULAR OPENING WHERE THE ARCS OF EACH PAIR OF SAID TURNS INTERSECT, THAT IMPROVEMENT IN MEANS FOR JOINING THE OVERLAPPING CIRCULAR TURNS OF A PAIR OF ADJACENT SPRINGS IN ONE ROW TOGETHER AND FOR HOLDING JOINED SPRINGS OF ONE ROW SPACED FROM THOSE OF THE NEXT ROW, COMPRISING A STRAIGHT TIE WIRE EXTENDING UNDER SAID OPENINGS AND HAVING U-SHAPED LOOPS SPACED APART THEREALONG COINCIDING WITH THE DESIRED SPACING BETWEEN CENTERS OF SAID SPACED ROWS OF SPRINGS, EACH LOOP EXTENDING UPWARDLY THROUGH ONE SAID LENTICULAR OPENING BETWEEN OVERLAPPING OUTER TURNS OF A PAIR OF ADJACENT COIL SPRINGS IN ONE ROW AND BEING WRAPPED UNIDIRECTIONALLY AROUND BOTH SAID OUTER TURNS WHERE THEY OVERLAP, FIRST RADIALLY OUTSIDE THE OVERLAPPING CIRCULAR TURN MOST REMOTE FROM SAID TIE WIRE AND FORMING ONE SIDE OF SAID OPENING, THEN DOWNWARDLY AND LATERALLY UNDER AND ACROSS SAID OPENING, THEN UPWARDLY OUTSIDE THE CIRCULAR TURN NEAREST SAID TIE WIRE AND FORMING THE OTHER SIDE OF THE OPENING WITH THE BIGHT OF THE LOOP HOOKED OVER THE LAST-NAMED CIRCULAR TURN.