Adornment device

• US 4,907,322 A
• Filed: 04/06/1988
• Issued: 03/13/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kiyohiro Kanno
• Original Assignee: Kiyohiro Kanno
• Inventors: Kanno, Kiyohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Sakran, Victor N.
• Application Number:
  US07/178,358
• Time in Patent Office: 706 Days
• Field of Search: 24/3 A, 24/3 C, 24/135 N, 24/135 R, 24/616, 24/618, 24/580, 24/116 A, 403/340, 63/4
• US Class Current: 24/616
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 11/002 Ornamental chains composed of pearls rosaries A44C23/00; making such chains D04D9/00
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 5/2047 Fasteners provided with a V-shaped spring-tongue male member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3904 Bead chain fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3967 Bolt perpendicular to cable axis
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45534 having connected leading edge and separated trailing arms

Abstract

An adornment device including a flexible cord using a plurality of wires as a core and a flexible coating for coating the cord so as to impart flexibility to the cord; a retainer having a cord-threading hole through which the cord is inserted once before a clasp and through which the cord is inserted again after being bent at a bending point; and a setscrew which, by making use of the characteristics of the flexible coating material, is adapted to secure the cord to the retainer while adjustment of the tension of the cord is being made.

Claims

1. An adornment device comprising:

a flexible cord having a plurality of thin wires as a core and an outer cord coating for covering said plurality of thin wires, the outer coating being formed of a flexible, soft-resilient material so as to reduce frictional contact from the cord and to enhance securing of the cord;

a retainer having a cord-threading hole through which said cord is inserted once before a clasp and through which said cord is looped back after being bent at a bending point; and

a releasable securing means for engaging the outer cord coating, said cord being securable at said retainer by said securing means while adjustment of the tension of said cord is being made.

2. An adornment device according to claim 1, wherein the diameter of said wire is approximately 0.03 mm.

3. An adornment device according to claim 1, wherein said coating material comprises a vinyl.

4. An adornment device comprising:

a flexible cord having a plurality of thin wires as a core and an outer cord coating for covering said plurality of thin wires, the outer coating being formed of a flexible, soft-resilient material so as to reduce frictional contact from the cord and to enhance securing of the cord;

a pair of retainers, each retainer having a cord-threading hole through which an end portion of said cord is inserted at least once and for looping back said cord after being bent at a bending point to protrude from said hole on the outside;

a releasable securing means for engaging the outer cord coating, said end portions of said cord being securable to said pair of retainers, respectively, while adjustment of the tension of said cord is being made; and

coupling means for integrally coupling said pair of retainers.

5. An adornment device according to claim 4, wherein the diameter of said wire is approximately 0.03 mm.

6. An adornment device according to claim 4, wherein said coating material comprises a vinyl.

7. An adornment device according to claim 4, wherein said coupling means includes a pair of metallic covers for respectively fitting over said pair of retainers, said pair of covers being connectable to each other so as to integrally form said pair of retainers.

8. An adornment device according to claim 4, wherein each of said pair of retainers have means for receiving the bent end portion of the cord and holding the bent portion in the retainer, said receiving and holding means being accessible from the outside when said pair of retainers are separated from each other.

9. An adornment device comprising:

(a) a flexible cord having a plurality of thin wires as a core and an outer cord coating for covering said plurality of thin wires, the outer coating being formed of a flexible, soft-resilient material so as to reduce frictional contact from the cord and to enhance securing of the cord;

(b) a clasp member with a pair of rings for hooking opposite end portions of the flexible cord thereon;

(c) at least one adornment item provided on the flexible cord; and

(d) a pair of retainer and securing means, each retainer and securing means positioned adjacent the clasp member and having (i) a cord-threading hole through which an end portion of said cord is inserted for looping around one of the clasp member rings and then back through the same cord-threading hole to protrude from said hole on the outside, (ii) a tap hole disposed substantially in a central position of the retainer and securing means and perpendicular to the cord-threading hole and provided with an internal thread, and (iii) a set screw threadingly fitted in the tap hole and having a set screw end positionable in the cord-threading hole for engaging the outer cord coating of the double-backed cord, the end portion of said cord being securable by the set screw while adjustment of the tension of said cord is being made.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the set screw end positionable in the cord-threading hole for engaging the cord has a substantially flat surface.

11. The device of claim 9, where the end of the cord-threading hole of the retainer and securing means opposite to the clasp member has an outwarding, expanding outlet.