Jewelry clasp
OwnerMax Roseninventor
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Abstract
A two-part clasp has female and male members with the female member being provided with a bore and a slot and into which a prong on the male member interfits for lateral engagement. The female member is provided with a latch which moves beneath the members to engage the male member and prevent it from lateral disengagement with the female member.
Claims15
A clasp for joining the longitudinal ends of jewelry and the like for positioning adjacent the skin of a wearer comprising a male and a female member each having a planar frontal wall for mutual abutment and having top and bottom surfaces and sides, said male member having a prong with front and rear ends and said female member having a bore open at one end, said prong and bore extending from a respective one of said sides and laterally across the respective frontal walls, said prong being insertable by its front end into the open end of said bore to restrain said male and female members from separation during relative longitudinal movement, said female member having a latch attached to a side thereof opposite the open end of said bore in alignment with said bore, said latch and rear end of said prong having cooperating means for latching engagement with each other, said latch being pivotable about an axis perpendicular to a plane containing the frontal wall of said female member and swingable in a plane containing a central axis of said bore and beneath the bottom surface of said female member and between said female member and the adjacent skin of the wearer to engage its cooperating means with said prong cooperating means when said prong is disposed in the open end of said bore, said latch being held in engagement with said prong by the adjacent skin of the wearer and said cooperating means.
A clasp for joining the longitudinal ends of jewelry and the like comprising a male and a female member each having a top, a bottom, side walls and having a planar frontal wall for mutual abutment, said male member having a prong and said female member having a bore open at one end, said prong and bore extending laterally across the respective frontal walls from one side wall, said prong being insertable at one end into the open end of said bore to restrain said members from separation during relative longitudinal movement, and a latch pivotable on the other side wall of said female member about the bottom thereof and swingable in a plane containing said bore into engagement with said prong in said one side wall when the same is in said bore to restrain said prong from removal from said bore.
A two-part clasp for positioning adjacent the skin of a wearer comprising a female member having a base, a frontal upstanding wall and a pair of side walls stradling said base and extending rearwardly from said frontal wall, a bore extending inwardly from one side wall partially through said base and a slot extending through said frontal wall in communication with the bore in said base, a male member having an upstanding wall having a projection extending laterally across the surface thereof and a prong integral with said projection spaced from said upstanding wall of said male member, said projection and said prong having one end insertable into said slot and bore from said one side wall to laterally interengage said male and female members to retain the frontal walls of said members in abutment, a substantially U-shaped latch element having one arm hingedly secured to the other side wall of said female member to pivot in a plane containing a central axis of said bore about an axis perpendicular to the abutting frontal walls to a latching position between said clasp and the adjacent skin of the wearer to provide the wearer an indication when said latch element is in its latching position and beneath said female member so that the other arm of said latch element extends over the other side wall of said female member in engagement with the other end of the prong in said bore to prevent separating movement of said male and female members, said latch element being held in its latching position by the adjacent skin of the wearer which feels the displacement of said latch when it disengages from said prong and moves out of its latching position.
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