Web-to-tube fastening clip

Claim 1

A FASTENING CLIP FORMED OF SHEET METAL FOR SECURING A STRIP OF FLEXIBLE MATERIAL TO THE FRAME MEMBER OF AN ARTICLE OF FURNITURE, SAID FRAME MEMBER HAVING A MOUNTING APERTURE FOR ANCHORING SAID CLIP, SAID FASTENING CLIP COMPRISING, A CLAMPING BODY WHICH IS GENERALLY U-SHAPED IN CROSS SECTION, AND U-SHAPED CLAMPING BODY ADAPTED TO BE FITTED OVER THE END PORTION OF A STRIP OF FLEXIBLE MATERIAL AND PRESSED IN PERMANENT CLAMPING ENGAGEMENT THEREWITH, SAID U-SHAPED CLAMPING BODY, UPON BEING PRESSED IN CLAMPING ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID STRIP OF FLEXIBLE MATERIAL BEING THEREBY STIFFENED LONGITUDINALLY, A COMPRESSIBLE STUD PROJECTING OUTWARDLY FROM THE FORWARD EDGE OF SAID CLAMPING BODY AND DISPOSED AT AN ACUTE ANGLE TO THE PLANE OF THE CLAMPING BODY, SAID STUD BEING OF FLAT FORMATION AND RESIDING IN A PLANE GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE FORWARD EDGE OF THE CLAMPING BODY, SAID COMPRESSIBLE STUD HAVING A WEDGE-SHAPED COMPRESSION HEAD, A NECK PORTION JOINING THE COMPRESSION HEAD TO SAID CLAMPING BODY, SAID STUD HAVING AN OPEN SLOT EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY THROUGH SAID COMPRESSION HEAD AND THROUGH THE NECK PORTION TO THE CLAMPING BODY, ADAPTING THE COMPRESSION HEAD TO BE COMPRESSED IN THE DIRECTION OF ITS WIDTH, SAID COMPRESSION HEAD BEING DELINEATED BY OPPOSED SIDE EDGES WHICH DIVERGE OUTWARDLY FROM THE OUTER END OF THE HEAD TOWARD THE NECK PORTION, SAID DIVERGING SIDE EDGES DELINEATING OPPOSED LOCKING SHOULDERS ADJACENT THE NECK PORTION, THE DISTANCE ACROSS SAID SHOULDERS BEING GREATER THAN THE WIDTH OF THE NECK PORTION, SAID STUD ADAPTED TO BE FORCIBLY INSERTED INTO THE APERTURE OF SAID FRAME MEMBER, THE DISTANCE ACROSS SAID APERTURE BEING LESS THAN THE DISTANCE ACROSS THE SAID LOCKING SHOULDERS, WHEREBY THE DIVERGING SIDE EDGES OF THE COMPRESSION HEAD ARE ADAPTED TO CREATE A CAMMING ACTION RELATIVE TO THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE MOUNTING APERTURE TO COMPRESS THE HEAD ADAPTING THE HEAD AND LOCKING SHOULDERS TO PASS THROUGH THE APERTURE, SAID HEAD ADAPTED TO SPRING OUTWARDLY AFTER PASSAGE THROUGH SAID APERTURE WITH SAID LOCKING SHOULDERS OVERHANGING THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE APERTURE AT THE INERTIOR SURFACE OF THE TUBULAR MEMBER TO CONFINE THE STUD WITHIN THE MOUNTING APERTURE, THE SAID U-SHAPED CROSS SECTION OF THE CLAMPING BODY THEREBY RESISTING THE PRESSURE DEVELOPED BY THE COMPRESSION HEAD OF THE COMPRESSIBLE STUD TO INCREASE THE CLAMPING ACTION OF THE FASTENING CLIP.