Patent ID: 7159269

Claim:
A backing strip for a windshield wiper assembly, comprising: a pair of rails, each of said pair of rails including a body portion and a detent portion, said detent portion including a cut-out on each side thereof, said cut-outs being generally symmetric with each other and forming a pair of hooks on each side of said detent portion, wherein the cut-out on one side of said detent portion of each of said rails is for receiving a claw of the windshield wiper assembly and the hooks on the opposite side of the detent portion of each of the rails are for engaging a windshield wiper blade of the windshield wiper assembly, and wherein the pair of hooks on one side of said detent portion extends outwardly from a top of said detent portion and the pair of hooks on the other side of said detent portion extends outwardly from a bottom of said detent portion.