Abstract A socket member comprises a main body, a resilient bent wire and a seating element for enclosing the resilient bent wire in the main body. At least two straight portions of the resilient wire spaced apart in parallel by a desired distance are disposed in a recessed portion of the main body for receiving the head of a stud member so as to retain the stud head in engaged position in clamping contact therewith. The socket member has a seating element which is provided with walls defining an annular inclined groove and secured within the body in spaced relation to the bent wires by abutment with the stud receiving portion and the outer walls of the body, so that said seating element receives and effects the upsetting of the prongs of a pronged attaching member.
a recessed portion formed at the center thereof for receiving the head of a stud member, and
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at least two straight portions,
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an inner inwardly inclined wall, and
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A socket member as claimed in claim 1, in which the central portion of the seating element abutting said recessed portion is formed by the edge of a central opening in said seating element of less diameter than the outer diameter of said recessed portion.
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a central portion abutting against said recessed portion and holding said seating element in spaced relation to said cutouts,
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said resilient bent wire means being disposed in said main body with said straight portions thereof resiliently pressed into said cutouts from outside so as to be spaced apart in parallel by a desired distance, c. a pronged attaching member for securing said socket member to a supporting sheet; and said socket member including the improvement which comprises: d. a seating element having
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a space defined by the inner peripheral surface of said annular wall and the outer surface of said recessed portion,
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said recessed portion being provided at its base part with at least two slitlike cutouts in facing relationship with each other; b. resilient bent wire means having
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said inner and outer walls defining an inclined annular groove therebetween extending upwardly and outwardly within the aforesaid space, e. said annular wall having its lower peripheral edge projecting inwardly in underlying abutting relation to the perimeter of said outer inclined wall for holding said seating element in abutting engagement with said recessed portion, and f. said pronged attaching member having its prongs positioned to pass through the underlying sheet and enter and be upset in the inclined annular groove between the inclined inner and outer walls of said seating element.