National Presto Industries, Inc.

Gary James Hartman

Richard Louie Geissler

John A Comerford

A quick-release plug assembly having a plug body and a socket body for receiving the plug body. Either the plug body or the socket body may include first and second contact posts, and the other may include corresponding first and second contacts spaced to electrically connect to the contact post when the plug body is coupled to the socket body along a coupling axis. The socket body includes outwardly diverging sidewalls and a bottom wall. One of the plug body or the socket body includes a magnet, and the other includes an attractive member which, due to the attraction of the magnet, removably couples the plug body to the socket body. The cord is received by the plug body through an opening in the plug body. The opening receives the cord from a direction which is at an angle relative to the coupling axis when the plug body is coupled to the socket body. The socket body may further include a vertical ridge located so that when the plug body is coupled to the socket body, the ridge contacts a front surface of the plug body at a point spaced inwardly from side surfaces of the plug body and thereby provides a fulcrum about which the plug body may pivot to remove the plug body from the connection location.

Quick-release appliance cord assembly

A beverage-brewing apparatus is provided which includes an outer cup member and an inner cup member. The outer cup member includes an open top, a sidewall and a bottom. The inner cup member has a sidewall, a first seal and a basket portion, with the sidewall of the inner cup member dimensioned to fit within the sidewall of the outer cup member. The first seal is disposed along an outer surface of the inner cup member for engaging the inner sidewall of the outer cup member to form a seal while still permitting the inner cup member to move within the outer cup member. The basket portion of the inner cup member is disposed at the bottom of the inner cup member. The basket portion includes a base with at least one aperture and a first filter medium, a sidewall, and a cap member having at least one aperture and a second filter medium. The cap member is releasably connected to the sidewall of the basket portion so that brewing material can be securely retained within the basket portion between the filter medium. The inner cup member is slidable between a first upper position where the basket portion of the inner cup member is disposed above the base of the outer cup member and a second lower position where the basket portion of the inner cup member is disposed against the base of the outer cup member such that liquid is forced through the basket portion when the inner cup member moves between the first and second positions with the first seal engaging the sidewall of the outer cup member. The apparatus preferably includes a lid having an aperture which is secured to the apparatus to close the apparatus.

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Chippewa Falls, WI, United States of America

Gary James Hartman