EP1563755B1 - Anneau, notamment bijouteric avec un anneau - Google Patents

Anneau, notamment bijouteric avec un anneau Download PDF

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EP1563755B1
EP1563755B1 EP05101085A EP05101085A EP1563755B1 EP 1563755 B1 EP1563755 B1 EP 1563755B1 EP 05101085 A EP05101085 A EP 05101085A EP 05101085 A EP05101085 A EP 05101085A EP 1563755 B1 EP1563755 B1 EP 1563755B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44C—PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS
    • A44C17/00—Gems or the like
    • A44C17/02—Settings for holding gems or the like, e.g. for ornaments or decorations
    • A44C17/0208—Settings for holding gems or the like, e.g. for ornaments or decorations removable
    • A44C17/0216—Settings for holding gems or the like, e.g. for ornaments or decorations removable with automatic locking action, e.g. by using a spring
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44C—PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS
    • A44C9/00—Finger-rings

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  • the invention relates to a ring having the features of the preamble of the main claim.
  • the invention relates to a piece of jewelry with such a ring.
  • Rings as used for example as jewelry, consist essentially of a closed or open ring body, which serves as a carrier for the ring head.
  • the head is usually the essential element, with gemstones, semi-precious stones or decorative elements, mostly of precious metal, being used.
  • the ring head is the essential and most expensive element of the ring, while the ring body has only a carrier function.
  • the ring body must therefore be adjusted by its diameter either individually to the finger diameter dns carrier or in the jewelry store a variety of rings must be kept with the same ring heads and different ring bodies in order to allow the buyer a preferred by the seller spontaneous purchase. This increases the storage costs and in business fewer variants of different rings can be kept. However, this prevents spontaneous purchases.
  • Prior art EP-A-0 848 918 discloses a ring having an open ring body with oppositely facing ends arranged and formed such that an object is clampable between the two ends, with one held between the bearings Object.
  • DE-A-2 204 504 shows a bead clamped between bearings of a ring.
  • an open ring has two ends which face each other and between which a ring head can be inserted, in particular can be clamped.
  • the ring head with, for example, gemstones and the like can thus be produced independently of the ring body intended for carrying the ring head.
  • the ring body can be industrially, inexpensively, effectively and produced in a variety of variants and ring sizes. These are z. Irrespective of this, a large number of annular heads can be produced, whereby the manufacture is simplified in that the annular heads are insulated and are not an integral part of the ring.
  • Another advantage is that the usually more valuable ring head with changed claims of the ring owner can be easily and immediately placed in the shop on a higher quality ring body. The owner can therefore at a later date replace the originally purchased cheap stainless steel ring body against a ring body made of precious metal.
  • a ring with initially simple crown and high quality bovine body can be used for always different ring heads, with a variety of pieces of jewelry can arise alternately.
  • An adjustment of the ring size to the finger diameter can now be done in a few seconds, including no special skills are required. So it is no longer specially trained personnel needed to change the ring body or the ring diameter.
  • the bearings made of a different material than the open ring body in order to make any compromise in terms of the strength of the bearing in the selection of the material for the ring body.
  • a gold ring that is soft in comparison to the stainless steel of the crown's abutment, where the bearings are formed only by indentations in the two golden ends of the ring, would wear out, grind, shear, and visibly deform over time. However, if the edges of the bearing are pushed in over time, there is a risk that the precious ring head falls out.
  • the ring is made of stainless steel, while the wear problems are prevented, but stainless steel is in the value and esteem of customers behind a noble metal ring body.
  • an embodiment is considered in which by coating (for optical reasons) of the stainless steel ring body with noble metal improved storage properties compared to a noble metal ring can be achieved.
  • the stainless steel ring body forms the bearing, while the noble metal coating forms the ring body.
  • this solution has the disadvantage that the production is very expensive and feels the lighter weight specific gravity of the stainless steel ring body of the consumer lower value.
  • a "different material" within the meaning of the inventive concept is always present if there are different physical properties, which relate in particular to the hardness of the material.
  • stainless steel can have improved surface properties by hardening or mechanical processing or, in the edge zone, improved strength properties.
  • the bearing can be made of stainless steel and the bearing in turn has a bearing surface coated with hard metal.
  • Cemented carbide in particular has the advantage that it has a golden color in the case of titanium nitrite (TiN). It is therefore preferred if the bearing or the bearing surfaces intended for holding consist of a harder or more wear-resistant material than the ring body, so that the material desired for reasons of optics can be used for the ring without consideration of the strength properties.
  • the bearing pressure does not decrease over time due to the absence of wear and the head is held securely even after years and despite relative movements.
  • the invention also has the advantage that non-allergy inducing materials can be used for the ring body and irrespective of this a mechanically optimal material can be used for the bearing, but that does not come into direct contact with the skin. The latter material therefore does not have to be allergenic with such great certainty.
  • a ring body independent and firmer bearing Another advantage of a ring body independent and firmer bearing is that the ring head can be held with a larger contact pressure without flowing begins.
  • a certain clamping force is necessary.
  • pressure x area a higher pressure is required with a smaller area, which is why extreme pressures are necessary to achieve the necessary clamping forces in particularly narrow and filigree ring bodies.
  • the separate bearing narrower rings of any Materials for clamping the ring head possible, bring more profit and save material,
  • Preferred materials for the ring body are all precious metal alloys, especially with gold, white gold, silver, platinum and copper or their Unterlegleiters tendency, as they enjoy the esteem of the public, are familiar and familiar.
  • bearing or bearing surfaces are all materials into consideration, which are known for their hardness and wear resistance, ie in particular steel, stainless steel, hard metal, ceramic. These may also have Teflon or such a coating, if necessary, to allow easy movement of the ring head.
  • the usually differently color than the ring body designed bearing in the ends of the ring body are embedded in holes.
  • the bearings are therefore not recognized by the eye as such and the high-quality overall impression of a precious metal ring is retained.
  • the bearings form a visible optical or design effect forming the visible end of the ring, i. only partially embedded in a hole for mechanical reasons.
  • the bearing is placed on the end of the ring to achieve a special design effect.
  • the end of the ring can be provided with an inwardly or outwardly directed stepped shoulder on which the bearing is placed. It is particularly advantageous optically if the bearing is flush with the ring body.
  • the supernatant bearing may be provided with a coating adapted to the annular body, e.g. B. by gilding or an adapted hard metal layer of z. TiN.
  • the ring head has a ball which is held between the bearings, it fixes itself when inserting into the camp virtually by itself in the correct position.
  • a ball has the advantage regardless of the fact that depending on the configuration of the surrounding bearing in one or more axes is pivotable or rotatable. It is particularly preferred that the ring head without tools about at least one axis is pivotable, in particular rotatable. The jewelry owner can thereby give the object at any time a different look. If several rings are attached in succession to one finger or side by side on several fingers, it is also possible to align the ring head accordingly, for. B. perpendicular or longitudinal to the finger.
  • Particularly eye-catching pieces of jewelery with "oversize” can thus be brought, for example, into a folded-down rest position and an unfolded display position.
  • an elongated ring head can be aligned with the ring body and sometimes across it, thereby completely changing its appearance.
  • the risk of injury also decreases because the head can fold away or turn away.
  • the maximum flexibility is obtained when the ring head is pivotable about two axes and one axis is rotatable. This is most easily realized by a ball held between the bearings, which is connected via a narrow web to the visible part of the ring head.
  • the ball also has the advantage that it can not exert significant torque on the bearing and thus leveraging the ring head is difficult.
  • annular body and the ring head is designed such that it can be used only by means of a tool such as a spreader bar in the thus-expanded annular body. This prevents accidental removal or dropping out.
  • the bias of the ring is to be dimensioned so that the tension can be overcome by hand with a pair of pliers and no more expensive special machine is required.
  • the ring head and the bearings are designed such that it can be used without tools between the bearings, for. B. by a wedge-like leadership, which allows for insertion of a spreading of the ring body with subsequent snapping, can be assembled in the store without tools and in seconds a ring.
  • a plurality of annular bodies can be connected to one another via a common annular head. Modular, thus, in particular coordinated differently colored annular body can be firmly against rotation, but still flexibly connected together to form a new, larger ring.
  • An annular body according to the invention is not limited to rings for attachment to the fingers. This includes rather all those components of all pieces of jewelry that allow by spreading an insertion and secure holding a piece of jewelry belonging to acting.
  • Fig. 1 shows a ring 1 consisting of a circular ring body curved to a ring rail 2, which is shaped such that the two end faces 21 face each other in the upper region of the ring.
  • the ring head 5 is held at its abutment 51 between the ends 21 by clamping forces.
  • Fig. 2 shows in the detailed view that 21 holes 22 are recessed in the ring rail 2 in the end region. In these are used in the molded stainless steel bearing 4.
  • a conical bore 41 on the outside of the bearing 4 forms the bearing surface 41 for fixing a stainless steel ball 51, which is connected via a web 52 with the visible part 53 of the ring head 5.
  • the ring head 5 is usually the most important and expensive part of the ring and contains, for example, a gemstone,
  • ring head 5 is clamped on the one hand firmly between the bearing surfaces 41 in the ring rail 2 because of the ball 51 and on the other hand is rotatable about its own axis.
  • a pivoting of the ring head 5 in leaf level to the lateral stop on the ring ends 21 is possible because of the narrow web 52.
  • the ring head can be pivoted out of the leaf level by 360 °.
  • the geometry of the bearing 41 is adapted to the ball 51 by conventional scales. If you want to prevent certain mobility of the ring head, you can instead of the ball and non-rotationally symmetrical objects, such as cubes and the like use. These are still able, with appropriate design of the bearing 4, to center themselves at the onset.
  • pin 52 is inserted into a through bore of the ball and the bottom 52a of the pin deformed and / or compressed, such as a rivet, thereby pin 52 is clamped in the ball.
  • pin 52 is precisely because of the high clamping and bearing forces made possible according to the invention that the pin 52 can rotate in the ball 51 or even completely loosen.
  • an anti-rotation 52b is used between pin and ball.
  • This may be a positive connection, for. B. tongue and groove connection or in the manner of a sprocket.
  • the anti-rotation 52b can, as in Fig. 2 shown to be formed directly in the ball 5, for example as a groove or notch.
  • Fig. 4 shows a further embodiment of the rotation, in which the ball 51 receives a two-stage attachment 51 a, 51 b, on which the visible part of the ring head 5 can be placed.
  • the article widened the contact surface between correspondingly shaped and positively intermeshing toothed profiles 51c and 52c, respectively, on the top and bottom of the top 51 b and ring head 5, whereby a safer twist-proof connection is achieved as soon as the pin 52 in the lower area the ball 51 is anchored, which is already related to Fig. 2 was explained.
  • the through hole in the lower part of the ball 51 can also be an expansion 51 d, so that the pin 52 is securely fixed after compression and withdrawal of the same is not possible.
  • the contact surfaces 51 c, 52 c can also be designed less expensive.
  • the decisive factor is that they can be moved towards one another in the vertical direction and a positive connection is achieved which makes twisting at least difficult (inclined contact surfaces) or prevented (in some cases vertical contact surfaces),
  • Fig. 3 finally explains the manufacturing process of an open ring body 2 with bearings used 4, the annular body 2 produced in a conventional manner is optionally cut at one point, so that form two end surfaces 21. Thereafter, the annular body is bent out of the annular body level, wherein a torsion point 23 is formed in the lower region. By twisting the end surfaces are positioned so that they can easily be machined with a large tool. The gap between them would otherwise be too small to work on the end surfaces. It has been shown that when bending in the ring plane, the necessary accuracy can not be met and the ring body is deformed too much. Now, if necessary, the end faces 21 can be successively planed. It follows the introduction of the bore 22 (see Fig.
  • the bearing surfaces 41 have already been prepared prior to the introduction of the bearing 4, since the subsequent production of the bearing surfaces 41 in the bearing 4 already used is problematic because of the high torques occurring.
  • the ring body 2 is bent back, wherein in the torsion region 23 remains a visible irregularity. This can be partially removed by polishing, but it is preferred that the stamp is placed in this area, since it is accustomed to the public that deformations occur in the area of the stamp and they are therefore not perceived as a defect.

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  1. Bijou ou bague (1) avec
    - un corps de bague (2) ouvert avec des extrémités (21) se faisant face et conformées comme des supports (4), qui sont disposées et conformées de telle manière qu'un objet (5) puisse être serré entre les deux extrémités (21),
    - et avec un objet (5) retenu entre les supports (4),
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'objet est conformé comme un chaton de bague (5) et présente une bille (51) retenue entre les supports (4), qui est reliée par une petite barrette ou goupille (52) à une partie visible (53) du chaton de bague (5), l'objet étant serré entre les supports de telle manière qu'il puisse être incliné autour d'au moins deux axes et tourné autour d'un axe sans outil et sans effort particulier.
  2. Bijou ou bague selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les supports (4) se composent d'un autre matériau que le corps de bague (2) ouvert.
  3. Bijou ou bague selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les supports (4) ou les surfaces de support (41) destinées à retenir le chaton de bague (5) sont faits d'un matériau plus dur et/ou plus résistant à l'usure que le corps de bague (2).
  4. Bijou ou bague selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le corps de bague (2) se compose d'une bague en métal noble ou comporte celle-ci et/ou les supports (4) ou les surfaces de support (41) se composent d'acier, d'acier inoxydable, de métal dur, de céramique et/ou de Téflon et/ou comportent les matériaux cités précédemment.
  5. Bijou ou bague selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les extrémités (21) du corps de bague (2) présentent des trous (22) dans lesquels les supports (4) sont introduits.
  6. Bijou ou bague selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que les supports (4) ne forment pas l'extrémité visible (21) du corps de bague lorsque le chaton de bague est inséré ou forment l'extrémité visible (21) du corps de bague.
  7. Bijou ou bague selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les supports (4) sont posés sur l'extrémité (21) du corps de bague (2).
  8. Bijou ou bague selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les supports (4) sont posés en affleurement sur l'extrémité (21) du corps de bague (2).
  9. Bijou ou bague selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la partie (51) ou la surface du chaton de bague (5) qui est en contact avec le support (4) est composée d'un matériau ayant des propriétés de glissement et/ou de solidité comparables à celle du support (4) ou de la surface de support (41) et se compose en particulier d'acier, d'acier inoxydable, de métal dur, de céramique et/ou de Téflon et/ou comporte les matériaux cités précédemment.
  10. Bijou selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les forces de serrage du corps de bague (2) agissant sur le chaton de la bague (5) sont suffisamment grandes pour que le chaton de bague (5) ne puisse être retiré et/ou inséré qu'en écartant le corps de bague (2) au moyen d'un outil.
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