Piece of jewelry
AssigneeJess James Limited
InventorJesse Ben Canty
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Abstract
A piece of jewelry comprising a substantially rigid base member comprising a groove along its length and a plurality of beads retained within the groove wherein the shape of the groove conforms to the shape of each bead to limit transverse movement of he beads and to allow the beads to slide along the groove. An outer member over a groove in the beads in turn holds the beads in the groove in the base member.
Claims8
A piece of jewelry comprising a substantially rigid base member comprising a first groove along its length, and a plurality of beads retained within the first groove, wherein the shape of the first groove conforms to the shape of each bead to prevent transverse movement of the beads and to allow the beads to slide along the first groove, each bead having a bead groove which is outward of the first groove at the base member, an outer member outward of the beads for retaining the beads by the outer member engaging the bead groove in each of the beads to hold the beads captive within the first groove of the base member;
- the base member has an annular shape, the first groove and the bead groove both open outward and the beads slide along an outer circumference of the base member in the first groove;
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- the outer member has an annular shape, and the base member and the outer member are concentric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.