Patent ID: 8485556

Claim:
A plug for a receptacle, the receptacle located within the surface of a glide board, the plug comprising a lower surface having a portion that is a flat smooth layer of a material having the property of an effectively low absorption of water to be suitable to be in protracted contact with snow and also the property of an effectively low coefficient of friction with snow and configuration as to not substantially interfere with gliding during the plug's operation; further the plug having a side generally perpendicular to the horizontal plane adjacent the lower surface plane of its flat smooth layer portion; at least one side having a moiety of a latch mechanism located above the plane of the flat smooth portion of the lower surface at a predetermined distance above the flat portion for engaging with a mating latch in a glide board; the latch moiety being retractable for disengagement with its mating moiety by manual operation of a latch release from the upper side of the plug without tools.