Quality indicator for gemstone

• US 5,056,826 A
• Filed: 06/25/1990
• Issued: 10/15/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SUWA Boeki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: SUWA Boeki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Suwa, Yasukazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Yost, Frank T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PAYER, HWEI SIU CHOU
• Application Number:
  US07/542,750
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 283/70, 283/74, 283/115, 283/117, 283/67, 434/98, 434/99, 434/100, 434/377, 434/386
• US Class Current: 283/67
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/0033 Owner certificates, insurance policies, guarantees

Abstract

The present invention relates to a quality indicator for a gemstone and more particularly to such a quality indicator for a gemstone composed of a chart with coloration in a plurality of colors and an indication of a grading scale in terms of the grades expressed in and with reference to the colors of the chart.

Claims

1. A quality indicator on a document for a gemstone, said quality indicator being provided with a grading scale, wherein said grading scale is characterized by being formed of:

(a) an array of colors prepared by analyzing the degree of color tone and the degree of transparency inherent in gemstones, the same or quite similar colors corresponding to the grades thereof being applied in an orderly sequence to the surface of the document in the form of a chart with one of the degree of color tone or the degree of transparency being indicated on a vertical axis of the chart and the other of these being indicated on a horizontal axis of the chart, and

(b) an indication of grades expressed on said array of colors with respect to zones for several upper-ranking grades in corresponding to the type of a gemstone.

2. A quality indicator for a gemstone as claimed in claim 1, wherein the document is a guarantee document and the chart is affixed to one corner of the guarantee document for the gemstone.

3. A quality indicator for a gemstone as claimed in claim 1, wherein the document is a guarantee document and the chart is printed directly on one corner of the guarantee document for the gemstone.

4. A method for preparing a quality indicator for a gemstone, comprising the steps of:

(a) preparing a grading scale having an array of colors that are defined by analyzing the degree of color tone and the degree of transparency inherent in a gemstone and applying the same or quite similar colors corresponding to the grades thereof in an orderly sequence to a chart with one of the degree of color tone or the degree of transparency being indicated on a vertical axis of the chart and the other of these being indicated on a horizontal axis of the chart; and

(b) providing indicia of grades expressed on said array of colors with respect to zones for several upper-ranking grades corresponding to the type of a gemstone.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising the step of applying the chart to a guarantee document for the gemstone.