A positioning and stabilizing device comprising:
- self-aligning and self-mating female and male components;
- the female component including:
- a body with a female mating face having a plane and a first face opposite the female mating face,
- a first magnetic element, and
- a first quantity, which equals at least two, first mating features on the female mating face,
- both the first magnetic element and the at least one first mating feature being positioned on or proximate the female mating face,
- wherein each of the at least two first mating features comprises an indent having an interior wall and a first end wall and a second end wall, wherein each of the first and second end walls is inclined at a first angle relative to the plane of the female mating face;
- the male component including:
- a body with a male mating face having a plane and a second face opposite the male mating face,
- a second magnetic element, and
- a second quantity, which is at least two, second mating features on the male mating face, wherein the second quantity of the second mating features is equal to the first quantity of the first mating features,
- both the second magnetic element and the at least one second mating feature being positioned on or proximate the male mating face
- wherein each of the at least two second mating features comprises a protrusion having an interior side and a first end side and a second end side, wherein each of the first and second end sides is inclined at a second angle relative to the plane of the male mating face,
- wherein each protrusion is sized, shaped, and positioned on the male mating face to cooperate and mate with a corresponding one of the indents on the female mating surface of the female component, and
- first and second affixing agents, wherein the first affixing agent is affixed to a first surface on the first face of the female component body, wherein the second affixing agent is affixed to a second surface on the second face of the male component body, wherein at least one of the first and second affixing agents includes a double sided adhesive foam piece;
- wherein the first and second magnet elements are positioned on the respective female and male mating faces and align, contact and attract one another when the device is being assembled;
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- wherein the at least two first mating features and the at least two second mating features are positioned on the respective female and male mating faces such that they align, contact and slidingly mate with one another in an assembled state to which they are drawn and in which they are held by magnetic attraction between the first and second magnet elements.