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US 4,282,733 AGranted
Finger-retained key holder assemblage
OwnerDorothy D. Schmitt (Johnston)inventor
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A finger-retained key holder assemblage has been provided that will prevent the loss of keys when carrying the keys in the hand as in the dark or carrying bundles without having to close the fingers about the keys in the palm of the hand. This key assemblage is secured to the hand by a ring placed upon the third finger or by a button, disk or clip extended over two fingers, a chain depending from the disk and squeezed by the two fingers and a key-supporting bar lying under the fingers and clamped thereto. Keys are loosely suspended from the underside support bar. While the flexible assemblage is secured to the third finger or between fingers, an individual key can be easily selected and grasped by the thumb and forefinger of the same hand and made ready for use for projection into a key hole. As well, the fingers can be closed comfortably about the assemblage to further safely retain the keys in the hand. The overall length of the assemblage has been kept to a minimum so that the keys can be easily reached by thumb and finger to select the key and aim it toward a key hole, thrust it home and turn the lock, all without loss of the keys. The assemblage can include the finger ring or made to be clipped or detachably attached to the bottom of the band of any ring normally worn on the third finger of the hand for ornamental purposes. The key support bar thus can be made as a separate assembly and simply attached to any ring that stays on the finger whereby the need to provide different size rings for the assembly to fit a user's finger is easily eliminated. The ring assembly thus is usable with either a tight fitting ring or a loose fitting ring. Likewise, the button, disk or clip for the top of the two fingers can be of any style or ornamentation and preferably in the form of a clip so that the assemblage can be attached to the side of a pocket. Both the ring and disk has means for hanging the assemblage upon a wall hook when not in use. Both the ring and disk has means for retaining a coin.
A finger-retained key-holder assemblage comprising finger-retaining means adapted to be fitted to the fingers of a hand to permit the assemblage to be dangled from and carried by the fingers without being gripped by the hand, a tranverse key support bar extending more than the width of one finger and adapted to be leveled and gripped therebelow by the fingers against the palm of the hand, said finger-retaining means including a member embracing the top of the fingers and flexible and swivel means for connecting the key support bar to the finger embracing member to hold the key support bar closed upon the underfaces of the fingers and foldable rearwardly into the palm of the hands outwardly thereof along the fingers, means for respectively loosely connecting the respective key supporting clips to the key support bar to normally dangle loosely therefrom, said key clips with the keys all being foldable into the palm of the hand or extendable along the underfaces of the fingers of the hand, the overall height of the assemblage with keys on the clips and when attached to the fingers being such that the keys may be easily reached and grasped by the thumb and forefinger of the same hand from which the assemblage is being carried by the fingers, said fingers embracing member being a ring adpated to be fitted to the third finger of the hand, said flexible and swivel means for connecting the transverse key support bar to the ring comprising a socket attachment connected to the bottom of the ring band, a link of about the height of the finger thickness having an upper ball head swivelly carried by the ring band socket attachment and loosely depending therefrom, said transverse key support bar having a ball socket attachment and loosely depending therefrom, said transverse key support bar having a ball socket formation and said line having a ball head on its lower end seated in the support bar socket formation to swivel relative thereto.
A finger-retained key holder assemblage comprising finger-retaining means adapted to be fitted to the fingers of a hand to permit the assemblage to be dangled from and carried by the fingers without being gripped by the hand, a tranverse key support bar extending more than the width of one finger and adapted to be leveled and gripped therebelow by the fingers against the palm of the hand, said finger-retaining means including a member embracing the top of the fingers and flexible and swivel means for connecting the key support bar to the finger embracing member to hold the key support bar closed upon the underfaces of the fingers and foldable rearwardly into the palm of the hands outwardly thereof along the fingers, means for respectively loosely connecting the respective key supporting clips to the key support bar to normally dangle loosely therefrom, said key clips with the keys all being foldable into the palm of the hand or extendable along the underfaces of the fingers of the hand, the overall height of the assemblage with keys on the clips and when attached to the fingers being such that the keys may be easily reached and grasped by the thumb and forefinger of the same hand from which the assemblage is being carried by the fingers, said flexible and swivel means for connecting the transverse key support bar to the ring band comprising a stretchable tension coil spring having rolled-up clip ends for loose attachment of the spring respectively to the finger retaining means and to the key support bar.
A finger-retained key holder comprising finger-retaining means adapted to be fitted to the fingers of a hand to permit the assemblage to be dangled from and carried by the fingers without being gripped by the hand, a transverse key support bar extending more than the width of one finger and adapted to be leveled and gripped therebelow by the fingers against the palm of the hand, said finger-retaining means including a member embracing the top of the fingers and flexible and swivel means for connecting the key support bar to the finger embracing member to hold the key support bar closed upon the underfaces of the fingers and foldable rearwardly into the palm of the hands outwardly thereof along the fingers, means for respectively loosely connecting the respective key supporting slips to the key support bar to normally dangle loosely therefrom, said key clips with the keys all being foldable into the palm of the hand or extendable along the underfaces of the fingers of the hand, the overall height of the assemblage with keys on the clips and when attached to the fingers being such that the keys may be easily reached and grasped by the thumb and forefinger of the same hand from which the assemblage is being carried by the fingers, said finger embracing member being a disk, a ball chain carried by the disk and depending between the fingers when the disk overlies the top of same, said ball chain being about the length of the thickness of the fingers, said key being attached to the transverse key support bar whereby when the fingers are squeezed upon the ball and between the disk and the key support bar, the key assemblage will be tightly retained upon the ball chain and between the disk and key support bar, the key assemblage will be tightly retained upon the fingers of the hand.
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