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US 10,357,086 B2Granted
Collapsible retaining structure for body piercing jewelry
AssigneeKaos Softwear, LLC
InventorsJesse Jarrell, Steve A. Haworth
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Abstract
Flexible retaining structures for body jewelry and method for their use. A loop portion may be open and present a width greater than a cross-section of a shaft-like transdermal portion and the loop may be oriented at an angle to the transdermal shaft-like portion when the retaining structure is in a relaxed condition. The structure may be stretched to close the loop and reduce the cross-sectional area of the loop portion of the retaining structure.
Claims5
A unitary device for mounting an article of jewelry, comprising:
- a transdermal portion having a cross-section and a central axis;
- a retainer portion attached to the transdermal portion, the retainer portion when free from outside forces is located substantially in a plane perpendicular to the central axis, and that, when free from outside forces, has a larger cross section than the transdermal portion, said retainer portion being elastically deformable by distally applied tension to reduce the cross-section of the retainer portion to approximately the same as or smaller than the cross-section of the transdermal portion;
- wherein the retainer portion is oriented at approximately a right angle to the central axis;
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- a leader having a cross-section no larger than the cross-section of said transdermal portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.