Improvement in upholstered furniture

Claim 1

In upholstered furniture having a metal frame over which upholstery material is stretched, the improvement in an upholstery material and metal frame rail fastening assembly, comprising: (a) a metal frame rail including a strip member having upper and lower surfaces and a free edge, (b) a first flexible fastening element secured to said strip member and including a sheet having a plurality of tiny loops extending outwardly of said sheet to form a pile; (c) said first flexible fastening element being folded over said free edge of said strip member and secured to both said upper and lower surfaces thereof; (d) upholstery material having a second flexible fastening element secured thereto on one side of the material and adjacent one edge of the material; (e) said second flexible fastening element including a sheet secured to said material and a plurality of tiny fingers with enlarged tips thereon extending outwardly of said second flexible element sheet; (f) said upholstery material adjacent said one edge being folded over said first flexible fastening element and the fingers of second flexible element being pressed into the loops of said first flexible element whereby the cooperating elements serve to fasten the material to the rail and the stress exerted which tends to separate the elements is substantially only shear stress; and (g) U-shaped spring clip means which force said second flexible element against said first flexible element and said first flexible element against both said upper and lower surfaces.