Ornamental beads and like bodies

• US 3,192,738 A
• Filed: 11/29/1962
• Issued: 07/06/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stafford Charles Geoffrey Russ, Troutbeck Sanderson William
• Original Assignee: Stafford Charles Geoffrey Russ, Troutbeck Sanderson William
• Inventors: STAFFORD CHARLES GEOFFREY RUSS, TROUTBECK SANDERSON WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US04/241,003
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• US Class Current: 63/39
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 11/002 Ornamental chains composed of pearls rosaries A44C23/00; making such chains D04D9/00

Claims

1. IN A NECKLACE, A PAIR OF BEADS FORMED OF A RIGID SYNTHETIC PLASTIC MATERIAL HAVING THE RIGID PROPERTIES OF POLYSTYRENE WITH EACH OF SAID BEADS HAVING A BODY PORTION WITH A CAVITY EXTENDING ENTIRELY THERETHROUGH WITH OPPOSITE EXTERNAL OPENINGS IN THE BODY PORTION, AND AN INSERT OF RESILIENT SYNTHETIC PLASTIC MATERIAL HAVING THE FLEXIBLE AND RESILIENT PROPORTIES OF POLYETHYLENE SECURED IN THE CAVITY OF THE BODY PORTION OF EACH BEAD, SAID INSERT HAVING AN INTEGRAL NECK AND HEAD PROJECTING FROM ONE OF THE OPENINGS IN THE BODY PORTION AND A SOCKET MEANS WITH A MOUTH PORTION AT THE OTHER OPENING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE HEAD ON THE END OF THE NECK ON THE ADJACENT BEAD, SAID MOUTH HAVING A LIP MEANS FORMING A RESTRISTED OPENING INTO SAID SOCKET MEANS AND SAID RESTRICTED OPENING BEING NORMALLY OF A SIZE TOO SMALL TO ADMIT SAID HEAD OF SAID ADJACENT BEAD, SAID LIP MEANS BEING DEFORMABLE TO ADMIT SAID HEAD WHEREBY THE HEAD OF ONE BEAD CAN BE FITTED INTO AND RETAINED IN THE SOCKET MEANS OF THE OTHER BEAD WITH THE ONE BEAD HEAD PORTION EXTENDING INTO THE OTHER BEAD SOCKET MEANS AND THE OTHER BEAD LIP MEANS ADJACENT THE ONE BEAD NECK TO THEREBY JOIN THE BEADS TOGETHER WHILE PERMITTING RELATIVE ANGULAR ADJUSTMENT OF THE TWO BEADS BY MOVEMENT OF THE ONE BEAD HEAD IN THE OTHER BEAD SOCKET MEANS DUE TO THE LOOSE FIT OF THE ONE BEAD LIP MEANS AROUND THE OTHER BEAD NECK.