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US 11,076,662 B2Granted
Fused meteorite
AssigneeDavid Yurman IP LLC
InventorsMatteo Rigon, David Yurman
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Abstract
The present disclosure describes a method for making fused meteorite, a method for bonding the fused meteorite to an article jewelry, and articles of jewelry comprising fused meteorite.
Claims18
A method for making fused meteorite comprising:
- placing pieces of meteorite in a mold, said mold having a flat bottom surface;
- heating a metal having a melting temperature to a temperature at or above said melting temperature for a period of time sufficient to melt said metal producing molten metal;
- pouring said molten metal into said mold comprising said pieces of meteorite to produce a raw fused material (“RFM”), wherein said RFM is a combination of said metal and said pieces of meteorite;
- cold pressing said RFM into a sheet having a thickness;
- heating said sheet to a temperature at or above said melting temperature for a period of time sufficient to melt said metal, but below the melting point of said pieces of meteorite, to produce fused meteorite;
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- cold pressing said fused meteorite.
4 more elements
A method for preparing an article of jewelry comprising fused meteorite, said method comprising obtaining a fused meteorite having pieces of meteorite embedded in a first metal;
- combining said fused meteorite with an article of jewelry having a housing adapted to seat said fused meteorite, said article of jewelry comprising a second metal;
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- heating the combination of said article of jewelry and said fused meteorite to a temperature sufficient to melt said first and said second metal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.