US 10,371,346 B2Granted

Device to illuminate novelty buttons

OwnerThomas D'Ercoleinventor

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Abstract

A novelty button illumination device comprises a circular disk body having a circumferential rim. A recess is provided in the rim that holds in place one or more glow sticks. The illumination device engages a novelty button by either the novelty button's pre-existing pin-and-clutch fastening device or by a fastening device affixed to the illumination device. When engaged, the device together with the novelty pin may be worn on clothing and the like. The glow sticks are bent and snapped to activate a chemical light producing reaction and after such activation may be placed into the recess. Thereafter, during the time the glow sticks continue to glow, the novelty pin is illuminated by the glow sticks in the circumferential rim, enhancing the user's enjoyment in using the novelty pin illuminating device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A device comprising a circular disk body having means in which to engage a novelty button and a circumferential rim wherein said rim has a recess that engages a chemiluminescent material, wherein said device is capable of illuminating a novelty button installed therein;

wherein when said novelty button is installed in said device, the chemiluminescent material encircles the installed novelty button;
wherein when the user of said device desires to exchange a novelty button that has been installed in said device, said device allows the user to disengage said novelty button from the device by pushing the installed novelty button outward from the body of said device thereby disengaging said installed novelty button and thereafter swapping out the installed novelty for a different novelty button that is installed into said device by pushing said different novelty button the body of said device until said different novelty button is secured thereto;
and further
wherein said exchange does not require the use of a tool.

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Facts

Application: 15/206,217Filed 8 Jul 2016 · us provisional application
Priority: 8 Jul 2015
Published: US 2017/0006976 A112 Jan 2017
Granted: 6 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

F21V 3/0625
The material being plastics: the material diffusing light, e.g. translucent plastics
A44B 1/04
Buttons: ornamental buttons
F21K 2/06
Non-electric light sources using luminescence ; Light sources using electrochemiluminescence: using chemiluminescence
G09F 3/12
Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself: by pins, staples, or the like

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Application62/190,187Us provisional application · filed 8 Jul 2015
US 2017/0006976 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Jan 2017
US 10,371,346 B2This patent

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