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US 6,668,584 B1Granted
Housing for setting a stone in jewelry
OwnerGiuliano Tostiinventor
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Abstract
A housing for setting a stone in jewelry having a bottom barrel shaped tube that may function as a locking element over any product. The bottom barrel shaped tube fits into a hole no larger than the diameter of the barrel tube waist and no smaller than the barrel bottom diameter. An upper housing has a stone seat formed to match the shape of any stone creating a compact metal-stone unit that is resistant to percussive action tools used for the assembly of this component over a piece of jewelry.
Claims2
A housing for setting a stone in a jewelry hole comprising:
- a lower seamless tube portion of barrel shaped design, having a wall of uniform thickness and an outwardly flared portion at a midpoint of the tube portion;
- and a unitarily formed upper portion defining a stone seat, said stone seat having an inner surface with a frustroconical portion and a cylindrical portion, said stone seat defining a shape to match the shape of a stone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.