Magnetic key chain

Claim 1

A SEPARABLE MAGNETIC CONNECTOR COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A MAGNET PART AND AN ARMATURE PART, SAID MAGNET PART INCLUDING A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR, FLAT, BOX-LIKE CASING OF NON-MAGNETIC MATERIAL AND INCLUDING TOP AND BOTTOM WALLS, INTERCONNECTING SIDE WALLS, AND AN INTERCONNECTING REAR END WALL, THE FRONT END OF SAID CASING BEING OPEN AND DEFINING A SLOT FOR RECEPTION OF THE ARMATURE PART, A POLE PIECE OF MAGNETIC MATERIAL DISPOSED WITHIN SAID SLOT AND SUBSTANTIALLY COEXTENSIVE WITH THE INSIDE FACE OF SAID BOTTOM WALL, A PLATE OF MAGNETIC MATERIAL DISPOSED WITHIN SAID SLOT AND IN SUBSTANTIALLY COEXTENSIVE CONTACT WITH THE INSIDE FACE OF SAID REAR END WALL, THE LOWER EDGE REGION OF SAID PLATEABUTTING THE REAR EDGE OF SAID POLE PIECE AND, IN COMBINATION THEREWITH, CONSTITUTING A POLE PIECE ASSEMBLY, A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT RECTANGULAR MAGNET OF THE BARIUM-FERRITE TYPE OVERLYING SAID POLE PIECE AND IN SUBSTANTIALLY COEXTENSIVE CONTACT WITH THE UPPEWR FACE THEREOF, THE COMBINED THICKNESS OF THE POLE PIECE AND MAGNET BEING SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE VERTICAL EXTENT OF SAID SLOT, THUS ESTABLISHING A GUIDEWAY WITHIN THE SLOT ABOVE THE MAGNET FOR SLIDING RECEPTION THEREIN OF THE ARMATURE PART, THE UPPER EDGE REGION OF THE PLATE PROJECTING A SLIGHT DISTANCE ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE UPPER FACE OF THE MAGNET AND DEFINING THE REAR END OF SAID GUIDEWAY, SAID POLE PIECE, MAGNET AND PLATE BEING DISPOSED WHOLLY WITHIN THE CONFINES OF SAID SLOT, SAID ARMATURE PART COMPRISING A FLAT SLIDE OF MAGNETIC MATERIAL SHAPED CONFORMABLY TO THE SHAPE OF SAID GUIDEWAY AND DESIGNED FOR SLIDING MOVEMENT IN THE GUIDEWAY INTO AND OUT OF SAID SLOT, SAID SLIDE, WHEN IN POSITION WITHIN THE SLOT SUBSTANTIALLY FILLING THE GUIDEWAY AND, FOR THE MOST PART, BEING WHOLLY CONTAINED THEREIN WITH ITS LOWER FACE IN SUBSTANTIALLY COEXTENSIVE CONTACT WITH THE UPPER FACE OF THE MAGNET, AND WITH ITS REAR EDGE ABUTTING AGAINST THE PROJECTING EDGE REGION OF SAID PLATE, THE FRONT END EDGE OF SAID SLIDE BEING FORMED WITH A SMALL TONGUE THEREON PROJECTING OUTWARDLY OF THE SLOT AND CINSTITUTING ATTACHMENT MEANS FOR A KEY CHAIN PART OF THE LIKE, THE REAR END WALL OF THE CASING BEING FORMED WITH A LATERALLY EXTENDING TONGUE WHICH CONSTITUTES ATTACHMENT MEANS FOR A COOPERATING KEY CHAIN PART OR THE LIKE.