Abstract: A connection device for use with a cable includes a link member to permit connection to another article and a housing formed in the link member having a passage therethrough including an annular cavity of larger diameter than the passage. There is a shaft member fixedly mountable to a cable and insertable into the housing passage. The shaft member is formed with an external annular groove. A clip member is mountable in the external annular groove. The connection device is assembled by insertion of the shaft member through the housing passage in a first longitudinal direction to expose the annular groove. The clip member is mounted in the exposed annular groove of the shaft member and the shaft member is retracted into the housing passage in the opposite longitudinal direction to pivotally and releasably connect the link member and the shaft member by virtue of the clip member rotatably engaging in the annular cavity of the housing passage.

Abstract: A pivoting joint assembly that includes a first portion formed with a first aperture and a second portion formed with a second aperture, the first and second apertures being alignable. A recess is formed about the second aperture. There is a shaft insertable through the first and second apertures. A bearing surface is formed adjacent one end of the shaft and a retaining member is releasably mountable to the other end of the shaft. A spacing member is insertable between the first and second portions to separate the portions to an extent such that the bearing surface of the shaft engages and retains the first portion on the shaft and the retaining member mounted to the shaft is positioned within the recess of the second portion to define a second bearing surface that engages and retains the second portion on the shaft. The first and second portions are releasably and rotatably locked together for rotation with respect to each other about an axis defined by the shaft.