Method of making an earring clutch
AssigneeAutomatic Findings, Inc.
InventorSheldon Seidman
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Abstract
An earring clutch defined by a hollow metallic shell filled with an elastomer material. An axial bore extends diametrically through the shell, with each end of the bore terminating at a respective flanged opening. The bore receives the post of an earring in frictional, releasable engagement. To form the clutch, a hollow, apertured shell is submerged in a liquid elastomer material. A vacuum is drawn on the liquid causing the liquid to replace the air in the shell. The shell is removed from the liquid, the liquid elastomer material allowed to harden, and an axial bore then drilled through the hardened elastomer material.
Claims7
The method of making an earring clutch including the steps of:
- (a) forming a hole through one wall of a hollow, closed metallic shell;
- (b) submerging the shell in a liquid hardenable elastomer material;
- (c) applying a vacuum to said liquid elastomer material to thereby evacuate a gas within said shell and cause the gas to be replaced by a portion of said liquid elastomer material so as to fill said shell with said liquid elastomer material;
- (d) removing said shell from said liquid elastomer material;
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- (e) allowing the elastomer material to harden.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.