WATCH BRACELET

• US 3,780,918 A
• Filed: 09/08/1972
• Issued: 12/25/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Flora K. Curtis
• Original Assignee: Flora K. Curtis
• Inventors: Curtis, Flora K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Forlenza, Gerald M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Noland, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US05/287,224
• Time in Patent Office: 473 Days
• Field of Search: 224/28R,28B,28E,4H,4D,5
• US Class Current: 224/165
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 5/003 with a storage compartment
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/005 Contact lens cases A45C11/046 takes precedence

Abstract

A watch bracelet of articulated or continuous construction and a pair of lens receptacles connecting the ends of the bracelet to the opposite sides of a watch, each receptacle having a pocket shaped to receive a lens and a hinged closure provided with a latch member for holding it closed until it is manually opened for the purpose of removing a lens.

Claims

1. In combination with a watch bracelet and watch having spaced ears on both ends, a pair of links in the form of relatively flat structures having hinge means at their opposite ends for hingedly connecting them one at each side of the watch between the watch and the ends of the bracelet at that side, and each link for this purpose having at one end spaced ears and at the other end a tongue, said spaced ears and tongue being complementary and containing holes for receiving pintle pins for respectively connecting them to corresponding complementary tongues of the bracelet and spaced ears of the watch, and each link having intermediate its ends an upwardly facing circular cavity of concave configuration centered in the link such that there is peripherally thereof a flat bearing surface, said cavity being adapted to hold a lens and containing a soft, non-abrasive lining, a flat cOver plate coextensive with said flat bearing surface, the depth of the cavity being such that when the cover plate is engaged with said bearing surface it will confine the lens in the cavity, means pivotally connecting the cover plate at one end to the end of the link connected to the watch, said cover plate having spaced parallel flanges at its opposite sides which slidably engage the sides of the link, a latch member at the distal end of the cover plate, perpendicular to said end adapted to be resiliently and frictionally engaged with the end of the link connected to the bracelet, a lip comprising an extension of the cover at said distal end by means of which the cover may be grasped to disengage the latch and indicia on the respective cover plates comprising a large R within a circle on the cover plate indicative of the receptacle adapted to contain the right lens and a large L on the cover plate of the other container indicative of the left lens of the container adapted to receive the left lens.