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A space dividing wall panel system having a non-metallic edge cap which is channel shaped in cross section, including a bight and first and second depending leg portions. The edge cap is attached to an outer edge of a wall panel by a plurality of metallic spring clips which are fixed to the outer ed

A space dividing wall panel system having a non-metallic edge cap which is channel shaped in cross section, including a bight and first and second depending leg portions. The edge cap is attached to an outer edge of a wall panel by a plurality of metallic spring clips which are fixed to the outer edge. Each spring clip includes first and second upstanding leg portions having flanged ends which define a plurality of spaced teeth. The dimension between the depending leg portions of the edge cap is less than the dimension between the teeth of the upstanding leg portions, such that the edge cap may be forced downwardly over the spring clips, causing the upstanding leg portions of each spring clip to flex inwardly such that the teeth non-destructively bite into the edge cap and resist dis-assembly.

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In a space dividing wall panel system which includes a first upstanding wall panel having first and second flat major opposed sides bounded by outer edges, the improvement comprising: an elongated non-metallic edge cap having a channel-shaped cross-sectional configuration including a bight and first

In a space dividing wall panel system which includes a first upstanding wall panel having first and second flat major opposed sides bounded by outer edges, the improvement comprising: an elongated non-metallic edge cap having a channel-shaped cross-sectional configuration including a bight and first and second spaced, depending leg portions having inner surfaces oriented perpendicular to the bight, and a predetermined dimension between said inner surfaces, and fastener means for securing said edge cap to a predetermined outer edge of the first wall panel, said predetermined outer edge including a pair of spaced longitudinally extending grooves, said fastener means including a plurality of metallic spring clips, and means for attaching said spring clips to the predetermined outer edge of the first wall panel, each of said spring clips including a flat base portion having first and second sides which are disposed adjacent to the first and second major opposed sides, respectively, of the first wall panel, and first and second ends, said first and second ends of the base portion of each spring clip including a pair of depending orienting tabs which enter the pair of spaced longitudinally extending grooves in said predetermined outer edge, said first and second sides terminating in first and second upstanding, inwardly converging leg portions, respectively, which terminate in outwardly extending flanges which angle downwardly from a plane disposed parallel to the flat base portion, said flanges defining a plurality of spaced teeth, with an outer dimension of each spring clip measured between the teeth defined by the flanges being greater than the predetermined dimension between the depending leg portions of the edge cap, whereby the upstanding leg portions of each spring clip are flexed inwardly by the depending leg portions of the edge cap, with the teeth biting into the inner surfaces of the depending leg portions of the edge cap, to resist dis-assembly of the edge cap from the predetermined outer edge of the first wall panel.