Support structure for supporting articles on perforated sheet material

Claim 1

A SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR RELEASABLE ATTACHMENT TO PERFORATED SHEET MATERIAL, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, A FLEXIBLE MOUNTING STRIP CURVED ABOUT A TRANSVERSE LINE, SAID STRIP HAVING A PAIR OF OPPOSITELY DISPOSED LATERAL WINGS EXTENDING IN THE GENERAL PLANE OF THE STRIP BUT BEING SLANTED DOWNWARDLY IN REFERENCE TO THE CONVEX SIDE OF THE STRIP, A PAIR OF LOCKING ELEMENTS DEPENDING FROM THE CONCAVE SIDE OF THE STRIP IN LONGITUDINALLY SPACED RELATIONSHIP, SAID LOCKING ELEMENTS FITTING THE SPACING BETWEEN TWO PERFORATIONS OF SAID SHEET MATERIAL, LENGTHWISE EXTENDED RETAINING MEANS ON THE CONVEX SIDE OF THE STRIP; AND A LOCKING MEMBER HAVING A LOCKING PORTION INSERTABLE IN SAID RETAINING MEANS FROM ONE END THEREOF, SAID LOCKING PORTION HAVING A DIFFERENT CURVATURE IN REFERENCE TO THE MOUNTING STRIP SUCH THAT INSERTION OF SAID LOCKING PORTION IN THE RETAINING MEANS FORCES SAID CURVED STRIP INTO A MORE FLATTENED CONFIGURATION THEREBY CORRESPONDINGLY ELONGATING THE SPATIAL DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID LOCKING ELEMENTS AND ALSO PRESSES THE OUTER EDGES OF SAID WINGS AGAINST THE SHEET MATERIAL THEREBY TENSIONING THE MOUNTING STRIP IN REFERENCE TO THE SHEET MATERIAL, THE ELONGATION LOCKING THE LOCKING ELEMENTS IN SAID TWO PERFORATIONS IN THE SHEET MATERIAL.