Furniture spring deck and cushion assembly incorporating same

Claim 1

A cushion assembly for use in upholstered furniture comprising: a. a generally rigid, generally planar open furniture frame including a pair of generally parallel, spaced apart opposite rails, b. a continuous series of closely spaced, generally parallel spring wires extending across said frame generally at right angles to said opposite frame rails to form a spring deck, each of said wires being transversely configurated to be nonstraight, c. fastening means connecting the opposite ends of each of said wires respectively to said opposite frame rails, said fastening means comprising a pair of resilient side strands extending generally transversely to said wires and to which the opposite ends of each of said wires are attached, each of said side strands consisting of a resilient core wire having a sheath of soft, non-metallic material, and hook members fixed to each of said frame rails at the tops thereof and engaged about the adjacent side strand, said side strand being oscillatable about its axis in said hooks whenever said wires are flexed by top loading of the spring deck, said spring wires and said hooks engaging only the sheaths of said side strands, whereby metalto-metal contact is eliminated, the distance between said side strands, when said wires are relaxed, being less than the distance between corresponding hooks carried by said opposite frame rails whereby said wires must be longitudinally tensioned and partially straightened for engagement of said side strands in said hooks, said hooks opening from said side strands in a direction opposite to the direction of extension of said wires from said side strands, and d. padding maTerial disposed over and supported by said spring deck.