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US 8,615,853 B2Granted
Multipole magnet for holding items to clothing
OwnerDonald P Rathbuninventor
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Abstract
In a magnetic holding device for attaching items such as eyeglasses, a badge, identification, jewelry, or accessories to an article of clothing, the magnet is replaced with a multipole magnet.
Claims4
In a magnetic apparatus for holding at least one accessory to an article of clothing, comprising:
- a magnet member and a holding member having a magnetically attractive base thereon, the members are placed opposite one another with the article of clothing positioned therebetween causing the operative combination of the magnet member and the holding member to attract and provide a means to hold the at least one accessory to the article of clothing;
- the improvement comprises the magnet member being further defined as a single piece multipole magnet, said multipole magnet having a continuous planar face, and said face having at least two magnetic poles of opposite polarity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.