Patent ID: 7077372

Claim:
A locking assembly for readily attaching and dislodging a device to and from a solid surface, the locking assembly comprising: a bracket assembly having a front plate and a back plate spaced apart and fixedly attached to each other about portions of peripheries of the front and back plates to form an opening therebetween having a top slot and an adjacent slide slot where at least a substantial portion of the top slot and the side slot are not part of the joined periphery between the front and back plate; a collar assembly having a collar assembly plate with an upper edge and a bottom edge; said plate being of a size and shape to be received and guided into the top slot between the front and back plates via the bottom edge of the collar assembly plate, said collar assembly further including a collar extending from a front surface of the plate and being of a size and shape to conform to an opening of the bracket assembly's front plate; said collar being fixedly attached to a device opposite where the collar is attached to the front surface of the plate; a pivoting release lever positioned within the side slot between the front and back plates of the bracket assembly, said pivoting release lever having an upper leg and a lower leg interconnected by a pivot that is attached to the front and back plates of the bracket assembly such that the pivoting release lever can freely pivot within the opening between the front and back plates about the pivot within a defined boundary between a locked and dislodged position and wherein the lower leg makes contact with the bottom edge of the collar assembly plate when the collar assembly plate is being locked into or dislodged from the bracket assembly; means for restraining pivoting movement of the pivoting release lever when the pivoting release lever is positioned to restrain movement of the plate relative to bracket assembly when the plate is substantially inserted within the opening between the front and back plates of the bracket assembly via the top slot; and means for securing at least the back plate of the bracket assembly to a solid surface.