Personal decoration retainer

A fastening device for separable connection to a pin member of an earring, said device including an elongate tubular housing having opposed side walls and having intermediate said side walls aperture means through which the pin member can pass with clearance, and an elongate generally U-shaped spring clip located in said housing and having legs abutting said opposed side walls and bowed towards each other to provide a gripping portion to grip the pin member passing through said aperture means thereby frictionally holding the pin member releasably in said housing.

A retainer, for supporting a decorative article on the person, comprising a pin member and a fastening device separably connectable thereto, the fastening device including an elongate housing having opposed side walls and having intermediate said side walls aperture means through which said pin member can pass with clearance, and a spring clip located in said housing and having legs abutting said opposed side walls to grip the pin member passing through said aperture means thereby frictionally holding the pin member releasably in said housing, said housing being tubular and of flattened cross-section so that said opposed side walls are walls of minor dimensions and are connected by opposed walls of major dimensions, said aperture means being provided by aligned holes in both of said walls of major dimensions, and said tubular housing including end flaps, on the respective ends of one of said major walls, bent up to overlie the ends of the housing.