Patent ID: 8827127
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: A45C,A45F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An arrangement for releasably attaching a portable item to another item comprising: a first unit having a body with an opening and a cavity communicating with the opening; a latch mounted for movement in the first unit body between a locking position and a releasing position, the latch having a blocking portion extending into the cavity when the latch is in the locking position and withdrawn from the cavity when the latch is in the releasing position; a spring engaged with the latch for biasing the latch into the locking position; an activator exposed outside the carrying unit body for access by a user to move the latch into its releasing position; a second unit having a protrusion that is received in the cavity of said first unit, the protrusion being defined by a surrounding recess for receiving the blocking portion of the latch when the latch is in its locking position, thereby locking the first unit to the second unit; a permanent magnet proximate one of the cavity or protrusion of said first or second units, and a magnetic material proximate the other of said cavity or protrusion; whereby as the protrusion nears the cavity, the protrusion is pulled by magnetic attraction to enter the cavity through the opening, and as the protrusion is pulled into the cavity it overcomes the spring-bias and withdraws said blocking portion from the cavity, until said blocking portion falls in to said surrounding recess locking said latch in its locking position.