Wall supporting and fastening means

Claim 1

IN WALL CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING WALL COVERING, THE COMBINATION THEREWITH OF IMPROVED MEANS, SUCH AS A NAILING CHANNEL, FOR SUPPORTING SAID WALL COVERING AND IMPROVED MEANS, SUCH AS A RATCHET NAIL, FOR FASTENING SAID WALL COVERING TO SAID SUPPORTING MEANS, SAID SUPPORTING MEANS BEING FORMED OF SHEET METAL, WITH AN APPROXIMATE WALL THICKNESS OF 26 GAUGE U.S.S. AND COMPRISING A HOLLOW FASTENING MEANS RECEIVING PORTION INCLUDING INNER SIDE WALLS AND OUTER END WALLS DEFINING A PRIMARY CHAMBER, SAID END WALLS EXTENDING FROM THE OUTER ENDS OF SAID SIDE WALLS AND CONVERGING INWARDLY TO FORM A RECESS IN THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID RECEIVING PORTION AND TO DEFINE FIRST FASTENING MEANS RECEIVING AND ENGAGING ELONGATED RESTRICTED OPENING MEANS ADJACENT THE BASE OF THE RECESS AND THE OUTER END OF SAID CHAMBER, SAID SIDE WALLS EXTENDING FROM THE OUTER ENDS OF SAID END WALLS AND INCLUDING OUTER SECTIONS CONVERGING INWARDLY AND INNER SECTIONS CONVERGING INWARDLY AT A SUBSTANTIALLY SMALLER INCLUDED ANGLE THAN SAID OUTER SECTIONS TO DEFINE SECOND FASTENING MEANS RECEIVING AND ENGAGING ELONGATED RESTRICTED OPENING MEANS ADJACENT THE INNER END OF SAID CHAMBER AND SUBSTANTIALLY ALINED WITH SAID FIRST RESTRICTED OPENING MEANS, AND SAID INNER SECTIONS THEN EXTENDING FROM SAID SECOND RESTRICTED OPENING MEANS AND DIVERGING THEREFROM, ONCE AGAIN CONVERGING AND MERGING TO DEFINE A SECONDARY CHAMBER SUBSTANTIALLY ALINED WITH SAID PRIMARY CHAMBER, SAID SIDE WALLS BEING SEVERALLY CONTINUOUS AND OF SINGLE WALL THICKNESS BETWEEN SAID OUTER ENDS OF SAID END WALLS AND SUCH MERGENCE, SAID FASTENING MEANS HAVING AN ENLARGED HEAD PORTION AND AN ELONGATED PORTION TERMINATING IN A POINTED NOSE AND PROVIDED WITH A RATCHET HAVING ITS INCLINED SURFACE CONVERGING TOWARD SAID NOSE WHICH IS FORCIBLY DRIVEN THROUGH SAID WALL COVERING AND PRIMARY CHAMBER INTO SAID SECONDARY CHAMBER, SAID ELONGATED PORTION HAVING AN ELONGATED REDUCED NECK PORTION ARRANGED BETWEEN SAID RATCHET AND NOSE, WHEREBY THE PORTIONS OF SAID END WALLS DEFINING SAID FIRST OPENING MEANS ARE FORCIBLY SPREAD APART AND SNAP BACK INTO NON-RETRACTIBLE ENGAGEMENT BEHIND THE RATCHET ON SAID ELONGATED PORTION INTERMEDIATE SAID REDUCED NECK PORTION AND HEAD PORTION, AND THE PORTIONS OF SAID INNER SECTIONS DEFINING SAID SECOND OPENING MEANS AND SECONDARY CHAMBER ARE FORCIBLY SPREAD APART WITH THE PORTIONS OF SAID INNER SECTIONS DEFINING SAID SECOND OPENING MEANS SNAPPLING BACK INTO NON-RETRACTIBLE ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID REDUCED NECK PORTION BEHIND SAID NOSE, THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID WALL COVERING BEING FIRMLY ENGAGED BY SAID HEAD PORTION AND SAID END WALLS BEING FIRMLY ENGAGED BY THE INNER SURFACE OF SAID WALL COVERING, THEREBY PRODUCING A RIGID JOINT BETWEEN SAID FASTENING MEANS, WALL COVERING AND SUPPORTING MEANS.