Quick-release appliance cord assembly

An appliance and a quick-release socket for receiving a magnetic plug, the appliance and socket comprising:

• an appliance body defining a chamber for holding hot liquids and a base for resting on a horizontal surface;
• a socket body on the appliance body adjacent a bottom of the appliance body, the socket body defining a plug chamber and a plug axis for receipt of the magnetic plug, the plug chamber further having a major dimension parallel to the horizontal surface and transverse to the plug axis, and a minor dimension transverse to the plug axis and transverse to the major dimension, the plug chamber having two outwardly diverging sidewalls spaced apart by the major dimension and a downwardly diverging bottom wall, the socket body defining two post apertures parallel to the plug axis and spaced apart a distance parallel to the major dimension;
• two spring-loaded contact posts received by the post apertures of the socket body parallel to the plug axis;
• an attraction member held by the socket body positioned between the contact posts for attracting a magnetic member of the magnetic plug.

An appliance and cord assembly comprising:

• an appliance defining a body for holding hot liquids, and a connection location for coupling the appliance to the cord;
• the appliance having a plurality of base pads which support the appliance, each base pad having a first coefficient of friction relative to a support surface;
• the appliance also having plurality of downward extensions extending from the bottom of the appliance, the extensions located toward an outside of the appliance relative to each base pad, each extension having a second coefficient of friction relative to the support surface less than the first coefficient of friction;
• a plug body which receives an end of the cord;
• wherein one of the connection location and the plug body includes first and second contact posts, and the other of the connection location and the plug body defines corresponding first and second contacts spaced to connect to the contact posts when the plug body is coupled to the connection location of the appliance;
• a coupling mechanism which holds the plug body to the connection location until a threshold force is applied in a direction to separate the plug body from the connection location.