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 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.