Jewelry rope chain
OwnerDavid Rozenwasserinventor
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Abstract
A jewelry rope chain formed of a number of links of wire of a cross sectional configuration. The links are intertwined to form an outer appearance of a double helix. A predetermined number of the links is required to form a full helix cycle. At least some of the overall geometric shapes of the links within a full helix cycle are different from the overall geometric shapes of the other links within the same helix cycle. The chain can be formed either by initially selecting the links of different geometric shapes and intertwining them in accordance with a desired sequence. Alternately, initially the chain can be formed of uniform links and thereafter the entire chain rolled or reshaped so as to reconfigure the shape of at least some of the links with respect to other of the links within a full helix cycle.
Claims22
A jewelry rope chain comprising:
- a plurality of links, each of said links formed of a wire of a respective cross sectional configuration, said links being intertwined to form a plurality of full helix cycles and provide an outward appearance of a double helix, a predetermined number of said links being required to form a full helix cycle, and wherein the overall geometric shapes of multiple adjacent links within each half of said full helix cycle are different from one another.
A method of manufacturing a jewelry rope chain comprising;
- a) intertwining a plurality of substantially identical links into a double helix configuration, each link having substantially the same overall geometric shape, each link having a substantially identical cross sectional configuration, and
- b) reshaping the outer configuration of the rope chain by changing the shape of at least some of the links to a different overall geometric shape than the others without substantially changing the cross sectional configuration of the reshaped links.
A method of manufacturing a jewelry rope chain comprising the steps of intertwining a plurality of links to form a plurality of full helix cycles and provide a double helix configuration, there being a predetermined number of links required to form a full helix cycle, and where in the overall geometric shapes of multiple adjacent links within each half of said full helix cycle are different from one another, and soldering selected ones of the links to retain a chain shaped as a rope chain.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.