RU2804533C1 - Jewellery construction kit - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: jewellery industry.

SUBSTANCE: constructive sets of elements for creating individually unique jewellery. The invention is a jewellery construction kit based on the principle of connecting and detaching standard elements. A jewellery construction kit contains a set of parts for creating jewellery; according to the invention, it contains fastening elements and straight hexagonal prisms made of precious metals or their alloys or clad with precious metals or their alloys. The side faces of the prisms have grooves - holes in the internal radial channels intended for installing fasteners. Inside each prism, the channels are interconnected by an internal cavity.

EFFECT: improved consumer qualities by expanding variability of the design solution of the jewellery being created while ensuring reliability of connection of the elements to each other.

10 cl, 9 dwg, 8 ex

Description

The invention relates to the jewelry industry, namely to constructive sets of elements for creating individually unique jewelry. The invention is a jewelry constructor based on the principle of connecting and detaching standard elements.

It is known that piece, unique jewelry, unique in its essence, is especially valued. This phenomenon is easily explained, since the user (or rather, even the consumer) of the product experiences extremely strong psychological discomfort when discovering complete similarity between his own jewelry and the jewelry used by another user.

The applicant does not know the technical analogues of his jewelry designer. Thinking through the details of his designer, the applicant relied on the types of locking connections known to him, since the claimed jewelry designer was built on the basis of locking connections between elements.

Locks for personal items or jewelry worn on the wrist, such as jewelry (bracelet, chain, necklace, etc.) and watches, usually serve to detachably connect two ends of a piece of jewelry or two ends of a watch bracelet. The lock must provide a secure connection to prevent the loss of jewelry, but at the same time, unfastening the lock must be easy and convenient for the user.

There are many publications in this field of technology, for example, in a publication regarding the types of jewelry locks http://techno.x51.ru/index.php?mod=text&uitxt=531, http://www.jevel.ru/technique/korobchatyiу_zamok.html .

There are also patent documents for box-type jewelry locks. For example, the document US 4881305 (published 1989-11-21) discloses a box lock in which a tongue, which is an elastic strip folded in half, is inserted into a hollow rectangular box. There is a protrusion on the surface of the tongue-bar that interacts with the hole on the top side of the box. For additional fixation, the lock uses a safety rod, hinged in the box, which holds the tongue in the box by passing through a hole in the side wall of the box between the bent sides of the tongue-bar.

Another patent document, US 6,754,938 (published 2004-06-29), discloses a similar type of box lock consisting of a square hollow box into which a bar folded in half is inserted. To close the lock, in one embodiment, a protrusion is made on the upper surface of the bar, which fits into a corresponding hole on the box, or a hole is made on the bar on the side opposite to the bend of the bar, into which a toothed element made on the edge of the box fits. The bar is additionally fixed in the box using a loop, which is hinged on the side surface of the tongue and which engages with the head on the side wall of the box.

A distinctive feature of an ordinary box-shaped jewelry lock is its rather large size compared to the size of the elements of the proposed jewelry designer. In addition, jewelry locks do not have the task of creating unique and diverse jewelry and are not intended to be connected to each other to form an independent piece of jewelry.

The inventive designer is intended to provide the user with the opportunity to assemble a certain number of combinations of jewelry related to all main types of jewelry, including earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets, rings, providing the ability to reassemble the products many times, if desired, by separating and rearranging the elements of the designer among themselves or replacing them with other elements from the designer set. At the same time, in the process of wearing jewelry assembled from a designer set, the elements must be securely held relative to each other to prevent unwanted unfastening and detachment of parts.

The problem to be solved by the invention is that, using a designer, the user can create jewelry with improved consumer properties by expanding the variability of the design solution and minimizing, even completely eliminating, the likelihood of two completely identical jewelry appearing.

The problem is solved due to the fact that a jewelry constructor containing a set of parts for creating jewelry, according to the claimed invention, contains fastening elements and straight hexagonal prisms made of precious metals or their alloys or clad with precious metals or their alloys, and in the lateral faces The prisms have grooves - holes in the internal radial channels intended for installing fasteners, while inside each prism the channels are interconnected by an internal cavity.

The fastening elements are made in the form of plate brackets with elastic, V-shaped bent end parts, and in the radial channels there are steps designed for engagement with the fastening elements.

There is a stop in the center of the inner cavity of the prism.

At least some of the fasteners have a screw thread at one end, and the radial channels have a counter thread.

One end of the fastening element is made in the form of a loop.

Additional holes are made in the side faces of the prisms, connected to the internal cavity of the prism.

Some of the prisms are made with a chain or connecting eye permanently attached to one of their side faces.

Prisms are shaped based on a hexagon with equal lateral sides and are made with a polished or matte outer surface or with a combination of both types of surface conditions, or with a shaped surface, for example, grooved, or combining all of these surface conditions in arbitrary ratios.

Some of the prisms are made with a hexagonal base, the surface of which is polished mechanically, chemically, electrochemically to enhance shine and/or has a protective and decorative coating, for example, with rhodium, another part of the prisms is made with a hexagonal base, decorated with natural or artificial precious, or semi-precious, or ornamental stones separately or together, or in various combinations, or decorated with chasing, or with a decorated ornament made using the cloisonne enamel technique or an image made using ultraviolet printing.

Some of the prisms are made with a hexagonal base, to which a pin is permanently attached on the outside.

The technical result of the invention is to improve consumer qualities by expanding the variability of the design solution of the created jewelry while ensuring the reliability of the connection of the elements with each other.

It is known that piece, unique jewelry, unique in its essence, is especially valued. This phenomenon is easily explained, since the user (or rather, even the consumer) of the product experiences extremely strong psychological discomfort when discovering complete similarity between his own jewelry and the jewelry used by another user.

According to the applicant, the technical solution presented by him fully meets the patentability conditions of “novelty” and “inventive step”, and the achieved technical result is providing the possibility of almost endless variation of combinations of decorative elements in decoration - and thereby creating almost unique ones in appearance or design solution jewelry - gives the claimed technical solution exceptionally high consumer properties.

In addition, the proposed technical solution may be available to a wide range of people. Depending on the consumer’s income, elements of a jewelry set can be purchased gradually, at least one element at a time.

The proposed technical solution - a jewelry designer for creating jewelry, containing fasteners and hexagonal prisms, is actually a self-assembling system that allows you to create a wide range of different unique products, the design and decorative appeal of which are limited only by the user’s imagination.

As a result of using this technical solution, it becomes possible to create new and relatively quickly update existing compositions by simply moving the place where the design elements are attached relative to each other. The resulting compositions can be attached to existing known jewelry with a counter thread/loop using fasteners having a screw thread or a loop. It is also possible, along with the proposed design elements, to include in the composition well-known jewelry details, such as chains, locking elements for bracelets and necklaces, earrings for earrings with a lock, and simple ring shanks that do not have a lock. To do this, it is necessary to use the proposed fastening elements, in which one end of the fastening element has a screw thread, or one end is made in the form of a loop, and the other has a screw thread. You can also use prisms that have pins, permanently attached (for example, soldered) chains, or connecting ears.

Fastening elements in the form of brackets with elastic, V-shaped bent ends can be made of chromium steel or bronze.

Screw-threaded fasteners and connecting lugs are made of the same material as the prisms.

Prisms can be made of precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum and palladium or jewelry alloys. Or the prisms are made of clad precious metals or their alloys. In this case, the surfaces (usually the base) of prisms, in order to preserve their aesthetic appeal and protect them from minor scratches, as well as to enhance their shine, can have a protective coating, for example, be coated with rhodium. Protecting the surfaces of prisms from scratches and other mechanical damage allows you to increase their service life without fear of damaging elements during assembly/disassembly of products and their operation.

Also, to give the prisms a shiny metallic shine, the prisms can be polished by any known method. Prisms can also be made with a matte outer surface or with a combination of matte and polished surfaces, or with a shaped surface, for example, grooved, or with a surface combining all of these states in arbitrary proportions.

Hexagonal bases can carry decorative elements in the form of engravings, corrugations, can be decorated with natural or artificial precious, or semi-precious, or ornamental stones separately or together, or in various combinations, or decorated with chasing, or with decorated ornaments made using the technique of cloisonné enamel or image made using ultraviolet printing.

Single stones, rosettes of the same or different in size, shape, type and cut of stones and their various combinations can be used as decoration for the hexagonal bases of the prisms.

Natural precious stones can be used as stones, for example diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, topazes, etc.; natural semi-precious stones, such as malachite, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, etc.; natural ornamental stones, such as onyx, jasper, etc., as well as organic stones, such as pearls, mother-of-pearl, amber, etc. Wood such as sandalwood can also be used.

Synthetic precious and semi-precious stones, such as cubic zirconia, zirconite, etc., can also be used as decorative stones. The cut of the stones can be in the form of a circle, square, pear, hexagon, etc., as well as diamond, rose, Ceylon, wedge, emerald, stepped, double or tall cabochon, etc.

Since the design elements from which the jewelry is assembled are standard (identical), a sufficiently small number of elements allows you to assemble at least several dozen variations of jewelry. The rich variety of decorative elements of the designer and a huge number of options for combining elements with each other allows you to create unique jewelry.

The assembled products consist of standard elements - straight hexagonal prisms (base in the form of a hexagon), each of which can be attached to the other using fasteners.

The invention, in essence, is a set of many locks in the form of straight hexagonal prisms, on each side of which there is an option for attaching this element either to known parts of jewelry - earrings, bars, chains, or to other elements of the design, for example, on some sides The groove for the latch is made like a box lock.

The prisms are fastened to each other using fasteners in the form of brackets made of elastic metal that is not subject to corrosion, preferably bronze, chromium steels and other alloys used in the jewelry industry and representing a plate bracket (bar) with two V-shaped bent end parts at the edges. Each V-shaped end portion is a latch.

When a fastening element in the form of a strip passes into the groove - the hole in the internal radial channel of the prism, the end part of the fastening element opens and is fixed by a step. The fastening element can be protected by a central stop from further advancement into the prism along the radial channel.

The resulting locking connection is released by pressing on the V-shaped end part of the fastening element. Pressure is applied to the V-shaped end part of the fastening element by inserting a long curved needle or a thin rod, such as an unbent paper clip or a key, into the internal cavity of the prism to remove the SIM card from the phone. As a result, the fastening element folds, becoming flatter, after which the fastening element can be pulled out of the groove - the hole in the radial channel. Making additional holes in the side faces of the prisms, connected to the internal cavity of the prism, facilitates the procedure for disconnecting the hexagonal prisms, since pressing on the V-shaped end part of the fastening element must be done at an angle that ensures the most efficient folding of the end part. And given the small size of the entire designer as a whole, additional holes make it easier to solve this literally jewelry task. Also, additional holes are used for inserting and passing through the internal cavity of the prism shank(s), ring(s), chains and other elements that make it possible to combine the elements of the designer and jewelry parts assembled using the elements of the designer into jewelry.

An additional distinctive feature of the proposed design is also the stable, reliable fastening of the elements relative to each other, which is achieved through the use of fastening elements in the form of plate brackets with elastic, V-shaped bent end parts and the perpendicular arrangement of the plane of the fastening element plate relative to the plane of the base of the hexagonal prisms being connected when connecting prisms to each other.

For a better understanding, the invention may be illustrated by the accompanying drawings and examples, which do not limit the scope of the patent's claims only to examples of its specific implementation.

In fig. 1 shows a three-dimensional cross-sectional view of two hexagonal prisms connected to each other by fastening elements in the form of a plate bracket with elastic, V-shaped bent end parts, the arrow shows the direction of pressure on the brackets to separate the prisms;

In fig. Figure 2 shows four connected hexagonal prisms in cross-section;

In fig. 3 shows three connected hexagonal prisms;

In fig. 4 shows a hexagonal prism, to one side face of which a connecting eye with a chain threaded through it is permanently attached, and next to it there is a fastening element with a screw thread, to which a chain is attached at the other end through a loop;

In fig. 5 - the same as in Fig. 4 in section; the chains are not shown.

Figure 6 is an example of using a designer to create a bracelet with a chain, while the prisms are connected to the chains using screw-threaded fasteners (not shown);

In fig. 7 - an example of using a constructor to create a ring (seven hexagonal prisms assembled into a flower, connected to the shank of the ring),

In fig. Figure 8 shows a prism made with a hexagonal base, to which a pin is permanently attached on the outside.

In fig. 9 - example of a brooch

List of positions

1 - straight hexagonal prism

2 - side face of the prism

3 - groove-hole

4 - radial channel

5 - fastening element in the form of a plate bracket

6 - elastic, V-shaped bent end part of the plate bracket

7 - radial channel stage

8 - stop

9 - fastening element with screw thread

10 - radial channel with counter thread (thread not shown)

11 - connecting eye

12 - pin

Example 1.

The constructor is used to create a set of jewelry by arranging six straight hexagonal prisms 1, connecting them with fasteners in the form of plate brackets 5 with curved end parts 6 and connecting the outer prisms with a chain by screwing fasteners 9 with screw threads into radial channels 10, made with counter screw thread. At other ends, the fastening elements are permanently connected to the chains (for example, soldered to the chains). The composition assembled in this way forms a jewelry bracelet and is shown in Fig. 6.

Example 2.

The constructor is used to create a set of jewelry by arranging seven straight hexagonal prisms 1 into a flower composition and connecting them to each other with fasteners in the form of plate brackets 5 with curved end parts 6. Then two elements of the shank are connected with one prism, by passing through its additional side holes shank elements, after which the outer prisms of the assembled “flower” composition are connected to the forked shank of the ring, by passing the shank through additional holes and cavities of the outer prisms. The product assembled in this way is a ring with a decorative element in the form of a flower; this piece of jewelry is shown in Fig. 7.

Example 3.

The construction set is used to create a piece of jewelry by arranging straight hexagonal prisms to form an “airplane” composition. The prisms are connected to each other by fastening elements in the form of plate brackets with curved end parts. In this case, the composition uses two hexagonal prisms made with a base to which a pin is permanently attached on the outside (as in Figure 8). The airplane-shaped brooch assembled in this way is shown in Fig. 9. The brooch can be secured using pins to the wearer's clothing.

From the comparison of jewelry presented in Fig. 6, 7 and 9, it follows that completely different jewelry can be made from identical elements of the designer.

As can be seen from the description, explanatory illustrative material and examples of specific implementation, the claimed object has high consumer qualities due to the expansion of the variability of the designs of the resulting jewelry.

Claims (10)

1. A jewelry constructor containing a set of parts for creating jewelry, characterized in that it contains fasteners and straight hexagonal prisms made of precious metals or their alloys or clad with precious metals or their alloys, and grooves - holes are made in the side faces of the prisms internal radial channels intended for installation of fastening elements, while inside each prism the channels are interconnected by an internal cavity. 2. The constructor according to claim 1, characterized in that the fastening elements are made in the form of plate brackets with elastic, V-shaped bent end parts, and in the radial channels there are steps designed to engage with the fastening elements. 3. The constructor according to claim 1, characterized in that there is a stop in the center of the internal cavity of the prisms. 4. The constructor according to claim 1, characterized in that at least some of the fastening elements at one end have a screw thread, and the radial channels have a counter thread. 5. A constructor according to any of paragraphs 1 or 4, characterized in that one end of the fastening element is made in the form of a loop. 6. The constructor according to claim 1, characterized in that additional holes are made in the side faces of the prisms connected to the internal cavity of the prisms. 7. The constructor according to claim 1, characterized in that part of the prisms is made with a chain or connecting eye permanently attached to one of its side faces. 8. A constructor according to claim 1, characterized in that the prisms are shaped based on a hexagon with equal lateral sides and are made with a polished or matte outer surface, or with a combination of both types of surface state, or with a shaped surface, or combining all of these states surfaces in arbitrary proportions. 9. The constructor according to claim 1, characterized in that some of the prisms are made with a hexagonal base, the surface of which is polished mechanically, chemically, electrochemically and/or has a protective and decorative coating to enhance shine, another part of the prisms is made with a hexagonal base, decorated with natural or artificial precious, or semi-precious, or ornamental stones separately or together, or in various combinations, or decorated with chasing, or with a decorated ornament made using the cloisonné enamel technique, or with an image made by ultraviolet printing. 10. The constructor according to claim 8, characterized in that part of the prisms is made with a hexagonal base, to which a pin is permanently attached on the outside.