Abstract: A low-profile clip adapted to secure a listing bead to a foam substrate and is constructed from a material that affords resilience, durability, high resistance to a wide range of temperatures during field use and seat assembly and ease of bead installation with high pull-out strength. The clip includes a base and a pair of legs extending upwardly from the base to a top barb. In this embodiment, the legs each extend upwardly from the base at a first angle of approximately 80 to 85 degrees and therefrom to each of the respective barbs at a second angle, with respect to a plane parallel to the base of approximately 88 to 90 degrees. In this manner the clip exhibits high performance while defining an overall height from tops of the legs to a bottom of the base of approximately ten millimeters or less making the clip particularly desirable for use in modern, thinner foam substrates.

Abstract: This provides a knitted wire carrier that incorporates a locking stitch that passes through the warp threads adjacent to the wire weft. In one embodiment, the locking stitch constructed from a “heat-activated yarn” consisting of an underlying material having exhibiting minimal shrinkage under application of heat and an outer heat-activated adhesive coating that fuses to the warp and wire weft when heated. In another embodiment, the locking stitch is constructed from a composite yarn having at least one meltable thread and a plurality of shrink-resistant threads braided together so as to avoid distorting shrinkage upon heating to melt and fuse the meltable thread.