Gear Necklace System
AssigneeKinekt Design, LLC
InventorsRachel Liberman, Julie Liberman, Lucas Taylor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A necklace that contains a gear assembly within a housing where gears of the gear assembly are rotated by a driving component. The driving component is a necklace chain where the chain, for example is a ball chain or a box chain that passes through openings in a housing wall and is configured to physically rotate gears.
Claims19
A necklace comprising a gear assembly, a gear assembly housing, a housing wall comprising a wall inside surface and a wall outside surface, a back comprising a planar back outside surface and a non-planar back inside surface;
- wherein the back inside surface is configured with standoffs comprising openings for mounting fasteners to fixedly or non-fixedly attach gears;
- wherein a driving component passes through openings in the housing wall and is non-fixedly positioned between gears;
- wherein the gears are configured to rotate when the driving component is moved relative to the housing.
A method of therapy for improving or maintaining motor or cognitive skills by using a necklace wherein the necklace comprises a gear assembly housing, a driving component, and a gear assembly;
- wherein the gear assembly housing comprises, the gear assembly comprises gears, along with the driving component being a chain that passes through openings in a housing wall;
- placing the necklace on a body part;
- using one hand to hold the housing and a second hand holding the driving component ;
- and
- moving the housing relative to the driving component to rotate the gears in the gear assembly.
The method according to claim 13, wherein the gear assemblies comprise angular spur gears, cogs, notches, fingers, and cylinders, wheels and pinions, rack and pinion gears, ring gears, planetary gears, master and servant gears, noncircular gears, face gears, internal and external gears, helical gears, worm gears, bevel gears, non-circular gear rack, internal gears, and sprockets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.