Conjoining assembly
OwnerBradford M. Birdinventor
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Abstract
A conjoining assembly for removably connecting a plurality of items such as, but not limited to clothing articles, to one another including at least two securing members removably attachable to one another. Each securing member includes a base and a retainer structured for connection to one another concurrent to the base and retainer of each securing member cooperatively disposed in retaining relation to a different one of the plurality of items. The removable connection of the securing members may include a snap-action connection between the bases, without the use of conventional or customized tools, concurrent to retention of the different ones of the plurality of items.
Claims11
A conjoining assembly structured to removably connect a plurality of articles to one another, said conjoining assembly comprising:
- at least two securing members each structured for attachment to a different one of the plurality of articles,
- each of said at least two securing members comprising a base and a retainer;
- each of said retainers connected to a corresponding one of said bases in retaining relation to a different one of the plurality of articles,
- a connecting assembly disposed on said base of each of said at least two securing members;
- said connecting assembly structured to define a removable snap-action connection between said bases,
- said removable snap-action connection comprising said at least two securing members removably connected to one another concurrent to a retention of different ones of the plurality articles on each of said at least two securing members,
- an attachment assembly disposed on each of said at least two securing members and comprising an attachment finger and an aperture each formed on different ones of said retainer and said base,
- each of said at least two securing members comprising a locking member having a flexible construction and disposable into and out of a closed orientation and at least partially defining a peripheral boundary of a corresponding one said apertures;
- said locking member disposed in said closed orientation, in fixed engagement with a distal end of a corresponding one of said attachment fingers, subsequent to passage of said distal end through said aperture, and
- said distal end of said attachment finger including a greater transverse dimension than that of said locking member, when said locking member is in said closed orientation.
A conjoining assembly for removably connecting a plurality of articles to one another, said conjoining assembly comprising:
- a plurality of at least two securing members each including a base and a retainer,
- a connecting assembly comprising each base of said at least two securing members including a different connecting segment formed thereon;
- said different connecting segments cooperatively structured for removable snap-action connection of said at least two securing members,
- an attachment assembly disposed on each of said at least two securing members,
- each attachment assembly comprising an attachment finger having a distal end formed on said retainer and an aperture formed on said base,
- a flexible locking member disposed along and at least partially defining an outer peripheral boundary of said aperture and normally biased into and movable into and out of a closed orientation;
- said flexible locking member movably and fixedly engaging said distal end, concurrent to passage of said attachment finger through said aperture of a common one of said at least two securing members;
- said distal end of said attachment finger including a greater transverse dimension than that of said locking member, when said locking member is in said closed orientation, and
- said removable snap-action connection comprising said at least two securing members removably connected to one another concurrent to a retaining relation of different ones of the plurality articles on each of said at least two securing members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.