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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2001
Gary James Hartman, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
Richard Louie Geissler, Chippewa Falls, WI (US);
National Presto Industries, Inc., Eau Claire, WI (US);
Abstract
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.