The headrest support tubes are secured to the seat frame member not by the
usual welding, but by gripping the web of the member between two rings or
lock-beads swaged into the metal of the tube. The first ring is
swaged-out by compressing the tube. The tube, with the one ring, is then
assembled into a through-hole in the web of the frame member. Then, the
second ring is swaged into the metal of the tube, on the other side of
the web, and the web lies gripped between the rings. The seat frame
member may be an I-section extrusion, or a round tube with localised
squeezed-flat areas, flanked by flanges.