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US 7,802,448 B2Granted
Jewelry clasp
AssigneeH.K.C.J. (Asia) Ltd.
InventorLok Chan
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Abstract
A jewelry assembly incorporating a body portion, the body portion being halved, each half of the body portion including a magnetic fastener half; a strand anchoring pin and socket joint fixedly attached to one of the clasp's halves; a helically threaded void extending into the other of the clasp's halves; a helically threaded lug fitted for threaded engagement with the helically threaded void, and a flexible bead supporting strand spanning between and interconnecting the body portion's halves.
Claims5
A jewelry assembly comprising:
- (a) a body portion, the body portion being halved, the body portion's halves comprising a left half and a right half;
- (b) strand anchoring means fixedly attached to the body portion's left half;
- (c) a rightwardly opening void, the rightwardly opening void extending leftwardly into the body portion's right half, the rightwardly opening void being helically threaded;
- (d) a lug having a socket, the lug being helically threaded and fitted for leftward insertion into and for threaded engagement with the rightwardly opening void;
- (e) second strand anchoring means selected from the group consisting of compression fittings, adhesive bonds, and soldered bonds, the second strand anchoring means being fixedly attached to the lug's socket;
- (f) a flexible strand spanning between and interconnecting the body portion's left half and the lug's socket;
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- (g) a plurality of beads, each bead among the plurality of beads having an eye, each eye being fitted for passage there through of the lug, the flexible strand extending through each of the beads' eyes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.