Tool and method for creating fashion accessories

• US 8,234,850 B1
• Filed: 01/24/2012
• Issued: 08/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Playmonster Group LLC
• Original Assignee: Ann Williams Group LLC
• Inventors: Wright, Sheila
• Primary Examiner(s): Hurley, Shaun R
• Application Number:
  US13/357,053
• Publication Number:
  US 20120186217A1
• Time in Patent Office: 196 Days
• Field of Search: 57/3, 57/10, 57/11, 57/12, 57/22, 57/23
• US Class Current: 57/10
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 27/00 Making jewellery or other personal adornments
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 27/001 Materials for manufacturing jewellery
• CPC Class Codes: A44C 5/0053 Flexible straps
• CPC Class Codes: D02G 3/38 Threads in which fibres, filaments, or yarns are wound with other yarns or filaments, e.g. wrap yarns, i.e. strands of filaments or staple fibres are wrapped by a helically wound binder yarn; D02G3/32 takes precedence; covering endless core threads with fibres by using open-end spinning techniques D01H4/00
• CPC Class Codes: D04C 3/00 Braiding or lacing machines
• CPC Class Codes: D04D 1/02 by twisting strands around centrally arranged cores
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49591 Bracelet making
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53 Means to assemble or disassemble

Abstract

A device comprising: (a) a body portion including: (i) a first end and ii. a second end; (b) a holder at the first end; (c) a holder at the second end; (d) a rotation device at the first end in communication with the holder at the first end; and wherein the holder is fixedly attached to a split gear having a channel therethrough so that one or more flexible mediums may be placed through the channel and removed from a work area located between the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a. a body portion including;

i. a first end and

ii. a second end;

b. a holder at the first end;

c. a holder at the second end;

d. a work area between the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end;

e. one or more split gears having a flexible medium holding device; and

f. a rotation device at the first end in communication with the holder at the first end; and

wherein the holder at the first end, the holder at the second end, or both are attached to the one or more split gears;

wherein the one or more split gears have a channel that extends through the one or more split gears so that one or more flexible mediums may be placed through the channel and removed from the work area, and

wherein the flexible medium holding device is capable of holding the one or more flexible mediums within the channel during use so that the one or more flexible mediums are held out of the work area.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the holders are a core creating device so that a core of a standard length is created without pre-measuring.

3. The device of claim 1, further including a translation rod in communication with the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the translation rod is located under a platform so that the translation rod is not visible and so that a flexible medium cannot become tangled by the translation rod as it is translated.

5. The device of claim 1, further including a rotation device at the second end of the body portion in direct communication with the holder at the second end of the body portion and in indirect communication with the holder at the first end via the translation rod.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the device can be used ambidextrously without having to reorient the device so that a user can rotate the rotation device.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the holder is a hook, “

J”

shaped, or “

C”

shaped, “

O”

shaped, or combination thereof so that a flexible medium is hooked on the holder.

8. The device of claim 1, further including one or more gears, for connecting the rotation device to the holders.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end are large enough to accommodate multiple strands of flexible medium.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the flexible medium is yarn, embroidery floss, string, thread, a synthetic textile, a natural textile, a synthetic cord, a natural cord, a plastic cord, rope, or a combination thereof.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the medium used is not a wire.

12. A method comprising:

a. obtaining the device of claim 6;

b. attaching one or more flexible mediums to the holder at the first end;

c. attaching at least one of the one or more flexible medium to the holder at the second end so that a core is formed between the first end and the second end;

d. continuing to perform steps (b) and (c) until a core of the desired size is achieved;

e. turning the rotation device at the first end;

f. wrapping at least one of the one or more flexible medium around the core; and

g. repeating steps (e) and (f) until a desired length of a fashion accessory is created.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more flexible mediums are tied together so that the one or more flexible mediums can be attached to the holder at the first end.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one of the one or more flexible medium that is wrapped around the core comprises:

a. one continuous piece, a portion of which makes up at least a portion of the core;

b. an end attached to the holder at the first end, or the second end;

c. a separate flexible medium that is completely unattached from the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end;

or

d. a combination thereof.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein at least one different flexible medium is looped around the core so that a different color, shape, size, type of material, or a combination thereof is created in the fashion accessory.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein a first end of the fashion accessory is cut, unhooked, unclamped, or a combination thereof to remove the fashion accessory from the device, and a first end of the fashion accessory and a second end of the fashion accessory are tied together.

17. A device comprising:

a. a body portion including;

i. a first end and

ii. a second end;

b. a holder at the first end;

c. a holder at the second end;

d. a work area between the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end;

e. a guide assist device attached to the body portion;

f. a rotation device at the first end in communication with the holder at the first end; and

wherein the guide assist device spans the length of the work area and travels along the length of the work area so that the guide assist device assists in creating loops along a length of the work area.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the device includes a translation rod in communication with the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end so that the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end rotate simultaneously, and wherein the guide assist device loops a non-attached flexible medium while the user simultaneously rotates the holder at the first end so that a fashion accessory is created in a continuous manner.

19. The device of claim 17, wherein the body portion includes an outwardly projecting support at the first end and an outwardly projecting support at the second end and a translation rod in communication with the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end so that the holder at the first end and the holder at the second end rotate simultaneously.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the body portion has an external shell comprising the outwardly projecting support at the first end and the outwardly projecting support at the second end and each outwardly projecting support includes a structure that substantially encapsulates one or more gears so that the one or more gears are maintained in alignment.