Abstract: A resilient clip assembly for securing paired wires is formed by a plurality of similarly oriented U-shaped clips that are held together by a pair of parallel, spaced filaments which are secured to a top crown surface of each clip through a tongue member. The filament is elastically deformable such that each filament is compressed and retained within an opening after the tongue is depressed downwardly onto the filament, thus preventing the filament from extracting itself from the clip. No part of the filament or tongue extends into the wire-receiving cavity of the clip.

Abstract: A fastener clip for securing an end bar of a furniture spring to a rail of a framework of an article of furniture, and a method of inserting the fastener clip into the rail, are disclosed.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically securing borderwires on mattress innersprings, including a support member for maintaining a mattress innerspring and borderwires on edge in a substantially upright position as clips are automatically wrapped along the supported edge on each side thereof. A rotatable paddle-like member is provided for rotating the mattress innerspring and the borderwires on the support member to present another edge on which clips are to be wrapped. Control means is provided for carrying out, automatically, each operation performed by the apparatus.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically wrapping clips on the borderwires and coils of a mattress innerspring which includes an adjustable alignment mechanism and adjustable clip wrapping tool mechanism for enabling the apparatus to accommodate borderwires and mattress innersprings of substantially any dimensions.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically securing borderwires on mattress innersprings, comprising support members for receiving borderwires and a mattress innerspring in stacked, properly oriented relation to one another. A drive mechanism is provided for automatically sequentially advancing the borderwires and the mattress innerspring along the support members to a clip wrapping station where a plurality of clips are simultaneously wrapped on the borderwires and the coils of the mattress innerspring. Control elements are provided for sensing when clips are to be wrapped, and when a predetermined number of clips have been wrapped on each side and each end of borderwires and the mattress innerspring.

Abstract: Free standing apparatus adapted for use with a clip clinching tool capable, at high speed, of exerting a pulling force on a clip assembly whereby the clips comprising the assembly are sequentially severed and wrapped on elements of a workpiece, especially overlapping wire members employed in the manufacture of furniture, mattress innersprings, and the like, to firmly secure the wire members together. The apparatus includes a flexible track, provided with guides, along which the interconnected clips of the clip assembly are pull-fed into the clinching tool.

Abstract: An improved clip assembly in the form of a row of aligned U-shaped clips. The clips are maintained in aligned relation to each other by resilient interconnecting means such as small diameter flexible strong metal wires which advantageously are intimately secured to the crown portions of the clips by a metal-to-metal bond. The assembly can be wound, in the manner of spool of thread or wire, into a tight, self-sustaining, compact roll comprising thousands of clips. The invention also involves a method of producing said improved clip assembly and a method in which said improved clip assembly is utilized to wrap the U-shaped clips on overlying wire members to produce bed spring, furniture and the like.

Abstract: An inner spring assembly embodying a generally channel-shaped border wire of the type which is provided with a continuous groove with straight sides and into which the end convolutions of the helical bedsprings of the assembly project in tangential fashion and about which the border wire is crimped to form a loose self-aligning non-rigid interconnection between springs and border wire. The border wire is formed from solid rod-like wire stock by a cold rolling operation in a shaping mill thereby obviating the necessity of resorting to machining and heat treating and eliminating waste material that is a consequence of machining. The rolling operation includes a reshaping of the solid cylindrical stock to a grooved border wire that offers a greater bending strength than like diameter solid border wire of the like weight per unit length.

Abstract: A panel nail construction adapted to be assembled on a backing material used in making shaped, upholstered panels employed in the making of furniture, and the like. The panel nail construction is provided with backing material-retaining means which enable it to be attached on a backing material. The panel nail construction advantageously is used in the form of a strip comprised of panel nails integrally, but separably, interconnected along the adjacent transverse margins of the head portion of each of the panel nails. In this form, the panel nail construction can be rapidly, and selectively, assembled on a backing material with an automatic machine or tool.

Abstract: An improved fastener clip for holding the end bar of a sinuous cushion-supporting spring in position on the wooden rail of an article of furniture. The clip, in its preferred form, has a base portion, a leg portion and a reentrant or reverse curved portion. The base portion and the reentrant or reverse curved portion are provided with end bar retaining means which cooperate to lock the end bar on the clip when the reentrant or reverse curved portion is wrapped on the end bar. The reentrant or reverse curved portion also has an impact receiving, upwardly extending lip adapted to receive and transmit the full force of a hammer blow, for example, whereby the reentrant or reverse curved portion is positively and effectively wrapped on the end bar while at the same time positioning the end bar retaining means in end bar locking relation to each other.

Abstract: A cyclicly operable apparatus wherein an elongated supporting table receives a stack of wooden furniture rails thereon at one end thereof and a conveyor repeatedly impels the bottommost rail in the stack in one direction past a fixed clip-applying tool which receives clips from a magazine and applies them at predetermined locations along the rail. As the leading edge of the rail approaches the tool, it is sensed and, upon sensing thereof, electrical impulses are emitted and registered in a micro-processor which affords control means for stopping the conveyor and rail when predetermined numbers of impulses have been counted, actuating the clip-applying tool, feeding a clip from the magazine to the tool for the next clip application, and restarting the conveyor. A method of thus applying clips.

Abstract: A flexible string of interconnected sheet metal clips of the type which are adapted to hold the end bars of a sinuous or zigzag cushion-supporting springs on the wooden frame of an article of furniture. The clips are disposed in side-by-side relationship and adjacent clips in the string are connected together by a thin flexible web, the thickness of which is reduced by a swaging operation, and which serves to maintain such clips slightly spaced apart.

Abstract: A metallic clip for holding the end bar of a sinuous cushion-supporting spring in position on the wooden rail of an article of furniture and having a horizontal base portion which seats on the top surface of the rail and a downturned flange which lies flush with the outside face of the rail, such flange having rail-penetrating anchor prongs which, when the clip is applied enters the wood transversely of the general plane of the wood grain, preferably at a right angle so as to inhibit splitting of the rail. The clip is formed from a flat metal blank by a punch press stamping operation in such a manner so that each prong is shorter than the width of the blank with the two prongs interfitting so that when they are bent out of the plane of the flange.

Abstract: A metallic clip designed for holding the end bar of a sinuous cushion-supporting spring in position on one rail of an article of furniture and also having associated therewith jaw portions which straddle the rail and, when pressed inwardly against the rail, seize the sides of such rail and maintain the clip firmly in position on the rail. In one form of the invention, a string of such clips are held together in slightly spaced side-by-side fashion by a liner strip which is seated within the reentrant or reverse bends of the clips so that individual clips may be successively severed from the strip for application to the rail. In a modified form of the clip, means are provided whereby the clips may be stacked together loosely against complete separation so that individual clips may be successively removed from the stack at will for rail application.