US 5,699,904 AGranted

Case for storing band-shaped personal ornament

AssigneeIkemoto Brush Industry Co., Ltd.

InventorShigeki Ikemoto

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Abstract

A case for storing a band-shaped personal ornament provided with a case body which has a cylindrical configuration with an opening portion at one end side and a wall portion at the other end side and has a circumferential wall having a slit window portion parallel with a direction of an axis of the case body. A cap is attached to the opening portion of the case body, and freely rotates toward the circumferential direction and is detachable. A bar for winding a band-shaped personal ornament which approximately coincides with the axis of the case body is attached to an inner face of the cap. A holding portion for holding an end portion of the bar for winding a band-shaped personal ornament is placed at a central portion of an inner face of the wall portion of the case body and the end portion rotates freely. The bar for winding a band-shaped personal ornament bifurcates into a long piece and a short piece between which a part of a band-shaped personal ornament is held.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A case for storing a band-shaped personal ornament said case comprising:

a case means body having a cylindrical configuration with an opening portion at a first end and a wall portion at a second end and having a circumferential wall possessing a slit window portion parallel to an axis of said case body and a cap which is detachable and freely rotates in a circumferential direction at said opening portion of said case body;
a bar, for winding said band-shaped personal ornament which approximately coincides with said axis of said case body, which is attached to an inner face of said cap;
a holding portion where an end portion of said bar for winding said band-shaped personal ornament is held and rotates freely rotates at a central portion of an inner face of said wall portion of said case body;
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a guide portion having protrusions and depressions for spreading said band-shaped personal ornament toward a width direction of said band-shaped personal ornament, wherein said guide portion is formed near said slit window portion of said case body.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.