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US 2003/0200779 A1Published application
Magic keychain
OwnerJohn S. Fitchinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a key chain for retaining objects comprising a rigid curved member with two ends, a chain attached to each of the ends of the curved member, a stop carried on the chain for preventing movement of the object past the stop, and a removable retaining member.
Claims10
A key chain for retaining objects with an aperture, comprising:
- a curved member with two ends, said member being substantially rigid and said ends separated from each other by a distance;
- a chain attached to each of said ends of said curved member;
- a stop carried on said chain for preventing movement of said object past said stop, wherein said stop is larger than said aperture of said object;
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- a removable retaining member carried on said chain in an installed position, wherein said retaining member has an opening sufficiently large to receive a double layer of said chain and wherein said objects are held on said chain between said stop and said retaining member in said installed position.
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A key chain for retaining objects with an aperture, comprising:
- a U-shaped member with two ends, said member being substantially rigid and said ends separated from each other by a distance;
- a chain attached to each of said ends of said curved member, wherein said curved member and said chain are of a substantially same diameter allowing said object to easily move from said curved member to said chain;
- a stop carried on said chain for preventing movement of said object past said stop, wherein said stop is larger than said aperture of said object;
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- a removable retaining member carried on chain in an installed position, wherein said retaining member is a circular disk with a radius no larger than said distance between said ends of said curved member, wherein said retaining member has an opening sufficiently large to receive a double layer of said chain, and wherein said objects are held on said chain between said stop and said retaining member in said installed position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.