Means for attaching web strips to furniture frames

Claim 1

IN FURNITURE INCLUDING SPACED APART FRAME PARTS SPANNED BY A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL WEB STRIPS ALL HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM TAUTNESS, MEANS FOR ATTACHING SUCH OF SAID STRIPS INDEPENDENTLY TO THE SPACED APART FRAME PARTS AND FOR EFFECTING SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM TAUTNESS DURING SUCH ATTACHMENT COMPRISING A SEPARATE IDENTICAL ATTACHING CLIP SECURED TO EACH END OF EACH OF SAID STRIP, EACH CLIP COMPRISING A PIECE OF SHEET METAL WHOSE LENGTH APPROXIMATES THE WIDTH OF THE WEB STRIP TO WHICH IT IS SECURED, SAID PIECE IN ITS WIDTH BEING BENT INTO SUBSTANTIALLY U-SHAPED CONFIGURATION WITH A SHORTER AND A LONGER LEG BETWEEN WHICH AN END LAP OF A WEB STRIP IS INTERPOSED, THE STRIP BEING REVERSELY BENT OUTWARDLY OVER THE SHORTER LEG AND THE LONGER LEG HAVING A PORTION WHICH IS BENT TO OVERLAP A PORTION OF THE SHORTER LEG AND A PORTION OF THE REVERSELY BENT STRIP, EACH SAID CLIP THUS SERVING TO EMBRACE AND RETAIN AN END OF THE WEB STRIP MATERIAL EMBRACED THEREBY, SCREW TYPE NAIL MEANS DRIVEN THROUGH THE CLIPS AND STRIPS EMBRACED THEREBY WITHOUT PENETRATING THE PORTIONS OF THE LONGER LEGS OVERLAPPING THE SHORTER LEGS OF THE CLIPS AT ONE OF THE ENDS OF EACH OF SAID STRIPS INTO ONE OF THE FRAME PARTS, AND SCREW TYPE NAIL MEANS DRIVEN THROUGH THE CLIPS AND STRIPS EMBRACED THEREBY WITHOUT PENETRATING THE PORTIONS OF THE LONGER LEGS OVERLAPPING THE SHORTER LEGS OF THE CLIPS AT THE OTHER ENDS OF EACH OF SAID STRIPS AND INTO THE OTHER OF SAID FRAME PARTS, THE SEPARATE WEB STRIPS ALL BEING ADJUSTED TO SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM TAUTNESS BETWEEN THE FRAME PARTS.