US 10,495,136 B2Granted

Rotary joint assembly and combination clip-hook and jewelry piece employing the rotary joint assembly

AssigneeClipsy, LLC

InventorsFarvardin Fathi, Huang Li

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Abstract

This invention provides a combination clip and hook (clip) for use generally in suspending articles having shoulder or hand straps, or carrying other accessories, such as keys, which is rotatably movable about a rotary joint between a first position in which two opposing, rotatably joined portions of the overall clip structure are oriented together to form a continuous, enclosed shape that can be secured around another strap or loop on an item or piece of clothing, and a second position in which the two portions of the structure are rotated out of the enclosed shape, and into, for example, a substantially S-shaped hook in which one portion of the structure supports the strap of the item and the other portion can be applied to a clothing hook, chair back, table surface, door top, or other supporting member.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A movable enclosing structure comprising:

a first portion and a second portion, each of the first portion and the second portion being rotatably joined at a rotary joint at respective joint ends thereof, the first portion and the second portion each defining a perimeter shape wherein the first portion and the second portion define (a) an enclosed orientation when the joint is in a first rotational position with respective free ends of the first portion and the second portion in a confronting relationship and (b) an open orientation when the joint is in a second rotational position rotationally remote from the first rotational position;
and
the joint including an index assembly that selectively maintains the first portion and the second portion in each of the first rotational position and the second rotational position with movement therebetween by application of predetermined rotational torque at the joint, and
wherein the joint includes, a pair of opposing grooves on the first portion and at least one indicator on the second portion having a projection for selectively engaging each of the grooves in each of the first rotational position and the second rotational position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/056,833Filed 29 Feb 2016 · continuation
Priority: 29 Sep 2008
Published: US 2016/0252130 A11 Sep 2016
Granted: 3 Dec 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

F16B 45/022
Hooks with pivoting or elastically bending closing member: the closing member pivoting about an axis lying in the plane of the hook
A44B 15/005
Key-rings: fobs
A45C 13/001
Details; Accessories: accessories
A47G 29/083
Holders for articles of personal use in general, e.g. brushes: devices for suspending handbags from tables, chairs or the like

Family

Application61/101,104Us provisional application · filed 29 Sep 2008
Application12/568,663Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 28 Sep 2009
Application13/448,946Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Apr 2012
US 8,162,276 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 24 Apr 2012
Application13/834,177Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Mar 2013
US 2016/0252130 A1Pre-grant publication · published 1 Sep 2016
US 9,273,718 B2Parent of this continuation
US 9,474,336 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
Application13/834,177Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2010/0078541 A1Published application
US 2012/0273640 A1Published application
US 2013/0277524 A1Published application
US 10,495,136 B2This patent

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