Appeal No. 2000-1576
Application 09/169,179
Appellant’s invention is generally directed to an anchor
clip for securing a supporting spring arrangement of a seat or
back cushion to the rails of an article of furniture and, more
particularly, to a squeakless furniture spring anchor clip
(e.g., as seen in Fig. 1 and Figs. 1A-1C) that includes a
plastic liner (20) on the interior surface of a spring
supporting or curved hook portion (16) of the clip to prevent
squeaking of the clip and spring contact area during use.
Even more particularly, appellant’s invention is directed to
providing a spring anchor clip having an arrangement of liner
holding members in the form of prongs (e.g., 52, 54, 56) that
are “punched out” (spec., page 3) or “struck from” (spec.,
page 8) the metal material of the clip body and used to
mechanically hold the plastic liner securely within the curved
hook portion of the clip when such prongs are bent over the
plastic liner. Appellant notes (spec., page 4) that the
prongs may be simply folded down over the edges of the liner,
or may penetrate through the liner and then be pressed down.
On page 10 of the specification, appellant points out that
when the liner holding members (52, 54, 56, 90)
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