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US 4,033,143 AGranted
Clip ring
OwnerDoreen Elizabeth Michaelinventor
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Abstract
In a ring, bracelet, or similar piece of metal jewelry which holds a charm link or other object onto itself in a manner in which the object is removeable manually, the mechanisms used are known to be spring rings or clips, which operate independently of the ring itself and are opened and/or closed by the pushing, pulling, squeezing or lifting of the clip or a part of the clip itself. In this invention, the clip is opened by the squeezing of the ring itself.
Claims5
Piece of jewelry formed from a resilient, single piece of material and having overlapping inner and outer ends;
- an opening adjacent but spaced from the extremities of the outer end;
- a prong attached to that part of the rim of the opening adjacent the extremity of the outer end;
- a radially oriented part of the inner end extending through said opening to abut said prong to maintain a predetermined shape for the ring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.