Snap socket fastener

Claim 1

A FASTENER APPLICABLE TO THE EDGE OF PLATE-LIKE STRUCTURAL MEMBERS AND ADAPTED TO RECEIVE AND SECURE AN AXIALLY PROJECTED STUD, COMPRISING A BODY FORMED FROM A SINGLE STRIP OF SHEET METAL BENT UPON ITSELF TO PROVIDE AN INNER BASE SECTION AND AN OUTER TOP SECTION UNDERLYING AND OVERLYING ONE ANOTHER RESPECTIVELY IN SPACED APART RELATION JOINED ALONG ONE SIDE BY AN INTEGRAL SIDE WALL, AND EACH TERMINATING AT THE OPPOSITE SIDE THEREOF IN A FREE EDGE, SAID SPACED APART SECTIONS FORMING A CHANNEL THEREBETWEEN ACCESSIBLE ALONG THE FREE EDGES OF SAID SECTIONS AND ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THEREBETWEEN THE EDGE OF A PLATE-LIKE STRUCTURAL MOUNTING MEMBER, SAID TOP SECTION HAVING A STRIP STRUCK THEREFROM TO FORM AN OPENING THEREIN, SAID STRIP CONTINUING THROUGH SAID SIDE WALL TO SAID BASE SECTION AND BEING BENT TO PROJECT AS A RESILIENT FINGER OUTWARDLY BEYOND SAID BASE SECTION, SAID BASE SECTION HAVING A SECOND RESILIENT FINGER INTEGRALLY CONNECTED THERETO ADJACENT ITS FREE EDGE AND TRANSVERSELY ALIGNED WITH SAID FIRST FINGER, SAID SECOND FINGER BEING BENT TO PROJECT OUTWARDLY BEYOND SAID BASE SECTION COMPLEMENTARY TO SAID FIRST FINGER, A SNAP SOCKET UNIT TO RECEIVE, AND SECURE A STUD ELEMENT OF A PART TO BE ATTACHED TO SAID FASTENER, SAID BASE ELEMENT BEING FORMED WITH AN APERTURE BETWEEN SAID FINGERS AND ALIGNED WITH SAID OPENING IN SAID TOP SECTION WHEREBY WHEN SAID FASTENER IS CAUSED TO STRADDLE AN EDGE OF AN ORIFICED PLATE-LIKE STRUCTUREAL MEMBER HAVING SAID ORIFICE ALIGNED WITH THE OPENING IN SAID TOP SECTION AND THE APERTURE IN SAID BASE SECTION, BOTH SAID FINGERS BEING INCLINED TOWARD EACH OTHER IN THE DIRECTION AWAY FROM SAID BASE SECTION WITH THE FREE ENDS OF SAID FINGERS BEING BENT OUTWARDLY IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS, THE MINIMUM DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID FINGERS BEING LESS THAN THE MAXIMUM TRANSVERSE DIMENSION OF SAID APERTURE, SAID STUD ELEMENT OF SAID PART TO BE ATTACHED MAY BE AXIALLY PROJECTED INTO SAID SNAP SOCKET UNIT SECURING SAID PART TO BE ATTACHED TO SAID PLATELIKE STRUCTURAL ELEMENT WHILE RETAINING SAID FASTENER FROM DISLODGEMENT THEREFROM.