Anchoring system for the installation of slabs on vertical and overhead surfaces

Claim 1

AN ANCHORING SYSTEM FOR SLAB FACING MATERIALS HAVING KERFS FORMED IN THE PERIPHERAL EDGES THEREOF COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF U-SHAPED CHANNEL STRUTS EACH HAVING RE-ENTRANT PORTIONS FORMED ON THE LEGS THEREOF, AND SECURED IN SPACED RELATION WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER TO STRUCTURAL MEMBERS FORMING THE STRUCTURE ON WHICH SAID SLABS ARE TO BE ANCHORED, A CLIP ELEMENT HAVING A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR BODY PORTION, A PAIR OF OPPOSITELY TURNED KERF ENGAGING PORTIONS FORMED ON THE EDGES OF ONE END OF SAID BODY PORTION, EACH OF SAID PAIR OF OPPOSITELY TURNED KERF ENGAGING PROJECTIONS INCLUDING A SPRING TONGUE INTEGRAL WITH SAID RECTANGULAR BODY PORTION AND DEFORMABLE BY THE KERFS OF A SLAB FITTED OVER SAID PROJECTIONS, AND MEANS FORMING FRICTION NOTCHES ON THE OPPOSITE END OF SAID RECTANGULAR BODY PORTION FOR FRICTIONALLY SECURING THE SAME TO THE RE-ENTRANT PORTIONS OF SAID USHAPED CHANNEL STRUT SAID MEANS FORMING FRICTION NOTCHES COMPRISING A SHORT ARM INTEGRAL WITH SAID BODY MEMBER AND TRANSVERSELY STRUCK FROM THE PLANE THEREOF, A LONG SPRING ARM ELEMENT OPPOSITE SAID SHORT ARM AND STRUCK IN THE SAME DIRECTION FROM SAID BODY MEMBER AS SAID SHORT ARM, SAID LONG SPRING ARM ELEMENT AND SAID SHORT ARM, COOPERATING TO GRIP THE RE-ENTRANT PORTIONS OF SAID U-SHAPED CHANNEL STRUT.