Patent ID: 7496994

Claim:
A connecting device comprising a female component and a male component, the female component comprising a plate having a top and a bottom; an aperture on the plate; a guiding curvature on the bottom of the plate beginning at a rim of the aperture; a magnet receptacle on the top of the plate; a groove on the bottom of the plate located between the aperture and the magnet receptacle; and a hook trap on the bottom of the plate beginning at a rim of the aperture that is next to the groove; and the male component comprising a prong having an underside and a beveled end being calibrated to accommodate insertion of the prong into the aperture of the plate; a hook on the underside of the prong and integral to the beveled end, the hook having an inside curvature on the underside of the prong, wherein the inside curvature and the hook trap of the female component being calibrated to accommodate lodging of the hook in the hook trap; a magnet attached to the underside of the prong sized to fit the magnet receptacle of the female component; and the magnet being spaced at a distance that can accommodate the contact of the magnet to the magnet receptacle upon lodging the hook in the hook trap.