Patent ID: 7020933
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: A44B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A connector device comprising: a base including a chamber formed therein and defined between two side panels and a bottom panel, each of said side panels including a curved slot formed therein, said base including at least one lock notch formed therein, an axle straddled between said side panels of said base, a first strap attached to said base, a connector frame received in said chamber of said base, and rotatably secured to said base with said axle, a shaft attached to said frame and slidably engaged in said curved slots of said side panels of said base, to guide and to limit a sliding movement of said shaft in said curved slots of said base, and to limit a rotational movement of said frame relative to said base, a latch slidably attached to said frame, and engageable with said at least one lock notch of said base, to selectively lock said frame to said base, and a second strap including an intermediate segment engaged over said shaft and engaged around said axle, and said shaft being engageable with said intermediate segment of said second strap, to force and to tighten said second strap when said frame is moved toward said base and locked to said base at a locking position with said latch, and said shaft releasing said intermediate segment of said second strap when said frame is rotated away from said base at a released position.