Connector engageable in multiple positions and releasable in only one position

Apparatus for detachably interconnecting two objects including in combination:

• a female member adapted to be secured to one of the objects and having a front surface and an aperture in said front surface which extends to a peripheral edge thereof and has an open end thereat, said female member having a receptacle formed therein behind said front surface, said receptacle being larger than said aperture and communicating with the entire area of said aperture and having an entrance which opens at a peripheral edge of said female member adjacent to the open end of said aperture, a male member adapted to be secured to the other object and having a stud projecting therefrom and a button at the distal end of said stud, said button being dimensioned to prevent passage thereof through said aperture in directions normal to said front surface but to accommodate passage to and from said receptacle in directions parallel to said front surface from said peripheral edge thereof with said stud extending through said opening and further to accommodate rotation of said button about the axis of said stud while in said receptacle, detent means yieldably carried by said female member and projecting into the entrance portion of said receptacle near the open end of said aperture for interference with passage of said button into and out of said receptacle in directions parallel to said front surface, said detent means being yieldably deflectable by said button to accommodate passage of said button into said receptacle irrespective of the rotational orientation of said male member with respect to the axis of said stud, and a recess formed in said button and shaped and dimensioned to receive said detent means in only one rotational orientation of said male member when said button is disposed in said receptacle to accommodate movement of said button from said receptacle, said button being engageable with said detent means in all rotational orientations other than said one rotational orientation of said button when said button is disposed in said receptacle to prevent movement of said button from said receptacle.