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Claim 1

A WIRE SUPPORT FORMED OF RELATIVELY STIFF RESILIENT ELECTRICALLY INSULATING MATERIAL, AND COMPRISING AN ELONGATED AND RELATIVELY NARROW BACK PLATE HAVING A PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVE ON THE REAR FACE THEREOF FOR SECURING THE SAME IN FACING ENGAGEMENT TO A SUPPORTING SURFACE WITHOUT PRIOR ATTACHMENT OF FASTENERS EITHER TO THE SUPPORTING SURFACE OR THE WIRE SUPPORT, A RESILIENT CLIP MEMBER EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM ONE LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF THE BACK PLATE AND OF A LENGTH ALONG ITS CONNECTION WITH THE SAID LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF THE BACK PLATE SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN THE OVER-ALL LENGTH OF THE BACK PLATE TO LEAVE SPACED PORTIONS OF THE FRONT FACE OF THE BACK PLATE EXPOSED TO SERVE AS PRESSURE APPLYING AREAS IN APPLYING THE WIRE SUPPORT TO THE SUPPORTING SURFACE, SAID CLIP MEMBERS BEING BENT TO A PREDETERMINED POSITION TO EXTEND ACROSS AND SUBSTANTIALLY COEXTENSIVE WITH THE WIDTH OF THE FRONT FACE OF THE BACK PLATE AND SPACED OUTWARDLY THEREFROM, THE RESILIENT CLIP MEMBER SERVING AS AN ADDITIONAL PRESSURE APPLYING AREA OVER A SUBJACENT UNEXPOSED PORTION OF THE BACK PLATE IN APPLYING THE WIRE SUPPORT TO A SUPPORTING SURFACE BY TRANSMITTING APPLIED PRESSURE TO THE BACK PLATE THROUGH THE EDGE OF THE CLIP MEMBER CONNECTED TO THE BACK PLATE AND THROUGH THE FREE EDGE OF THE CLIP MEMBER DEPRESSED INTO CONTACT WITH THE SUBJACENT PORTION OF THE BACK PLATE WITHOUT PERMANENT DEFORMATION OF THE CLIP MEMBER WHICH INHERENTLY SPRINGS BACK TO ITS NORMAL PREDETERMINED POSITION FOR SNUGLY RECEIVING A WIRE TO BE SUBSEQUENTLY APPLIED THERETO OR BY TRANSMITTING THE APPLIED PRESSURE TO THE BACK PLATE THROUGH A WIRE PREVIOUSLY DISPOSED BETWEEN THE BACK PLATE AND CLIP MEMBER.