Carrying assembly

Abstract

The invention is an assembly for carrying a small item, such as a cell telephone, on one's person. The assembly includes a male and a female fixture, one of which is affixed to the small item (or its carrying case) and the other of which is attached to a convenient site, such as a person's belt, other article of clothing or the dashboard of an automobile. The male fixture is inserted downwardly into a “U” shaped opening in the female fixture and a spring bias and a pair of detents hold the fixtures in engagement with each other. When desired, the fixtures are separated from each other by an upward pull sufficient to overcome the spring bias and allow the male fixture to slide up and over the detents.

1 . A carrying assembly for hand held articles including a male fixture and a female fixture, one of which fixtures is adapted for attachment to the article and the other of which is adapted for attachment to a convenient carrying site: 
 the male fixture includes an attachment bracket and a connecting stud mounted on and normal to the surface of the attachment bracket; 
 the connecting stud has a shoulder portion axially extending from the attachment bracket to a securing flange of greater diameter than the shoulder mounted on the distal end of the shoulder,  
   the female fixture includes a securing receptacle attached to a spring plate, 
 the securing receptacle defines a “U” shaped slot extending from a lower portion of the securing receptacle in an upwardly and outwardly flared direction terminating at the open end of the “U”, the slotted opening is large enough to receive the stud shoulder but small enough to restrict the passage of the securing flange of the stud;  
 the securing receptacle has detents extending toward the spring plate, 
 the detents being located on opposite sides of the “U” shaped slot at points spaced above the bottom of the “U” and below the open end of the “U”;  
 the detents being separated from each other in a horizontal plane at a distance greater than the diameter of the stud shoulder but less than the diameter of the securing flange;  
 
 the spring plate is secured to the securing receptacle in facing relationship to the detents of the securing receptacle; and  
 the spring plate has a leaf spring biased toward the “U” shaped slot; whereby  
   when the connecting stud of the attachment bracket is inserted and seated in the “U” shaped slot, the rim of the securing flange is engaged by the detents of the securing receptacle and releasably held in this position by the bias of the leaf spring pressing against the top surface of the securing flange of the connecting stud urging it into contact with the securing receptacle.