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Jewelry system

OwnerPaul R. Scharrinventor

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Abstract

A jewelry system is provided with interchangeable components including at least one jewelry portion comprised of beads on a wire with first and second free ends. The first and second free ends of the wire pass through holes in corresponding first and second threaded caps; and corresponding findings are permanently affixed to the first and second free ends of the wire after passage of the wire through the holes in the caps to hold the beads on the wire between the threaded caps. First and second main body portions, each closed on one end and open on the opposite end with a threaded chamber therein, receive the first and second caps, respectively, with the findings located in the chambers in the main body portions. The fixed loops on the closed end of each of the main body portions are attached to additional jewelry components to allow interchangeability between the first jewelry portions and the additional jewelry components by interconnecting the caps of different first jewelry portions with different body portions attached to various jewelry components.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A jewelry system with interchangeable components and beaded portions including in combination:

at least one beaded jewelry portion comprised of beads on a wire with first and second free ends;
first and second caps, each having a hole therethrough to receive the first and second free ends of the wire extending through the holes in the first and second threaded caps, respectively;
first and second findings permanently affixed to the first and second free ends of the wire after passage of the wire free ends through the holes in the first and second threaded caps wherein the dimensions of the holes in the first and second caps prevent passage of the first and second findings through the respective holes, thereby holding the beads on the wire between the first and second threaded caps;
first and second main body portions each closed on one end and open on the opposite end, with a threaded chamber therein to receive the first and second threaded caps, respectively, with the first and second findings located in the chambers in the first and second main body portions;
and a fixed loop on the closed end of each of the first and second main body portions for attachment to additional linkable components.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/486,648Filed 14 Jul 2006 · continuation in part
Priority: 28 Apr 2004
Published: US 2006/0248922 A19 Nov 2006
Granted: 14 Aug 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

A44C 5/185
Fasteners for straps, chains or the like: attachment of fasteners to straps or chains
A44C 11/002
Watch chains; Ornamental chains: ornamental chains composed of pearls
A44C 5/208
With the two ends of the strap or chain abutting each other or sliding in the main plane or a plane parallel to the main plane of these two ends:…
A44C 15/005
Jewellery specially adapted to be worn on a specific part of the body not fully provided for in groups A44C1/00 - A44C9/00: necklaces

Family

Application10/834,716Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 28 Apr 2004
Application10/966,656Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 16 Oct 2004
US 2006/0248922 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Nov 2006
US 2005/0241335 A1Published application
US 2005/0241336 A1Published application
US 7,254,962 B2This patent

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