Carrying assembly

A carrying assembly for hand held articles, including a male fixture and a female fixture, one of which fixtures is adopted for attachment to the article and the other of which is adapted for attachment to a convenient carrying site in which:

• the female plate includes:
• a faceplate mounted on the support plate, the faceplate having a centrally located, upwardly disposed U-shaped slot,
• a tongue made of a resilient material positioned intermediate the support plate and the faceplate with the lower end of the tongue mounted on the support plate and the upper free end of the tongue biased by its resiliency away from the support plate and toward the faceplate, and
• a latch mounted on the tongue facing the faceplate;
• and
• the male fixture includes:
• a baseplate,
• a stem mounted on and extending away from the baseplate and a button mounted at the distal end of the stem,
• the stem being to dimensioned to fit within the slot of the female fixture
• the button being to dimensioned to be of greater width than the lower portion of the slot,
• whereby the stud of the male fixture can be inserted into the slot of the female member and moved toward the bottom of the slot until the latch engages the rim of the button to secure the male fixture within the female fixture.