US2016492A

US2016492A - Combined engagement and wedding rings

Info

Publication number: US2016492A
Application number: US726463A
Authority: US
Inventors: Granat Joseph
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1934-05-19
Filing date: 1934-05-19
Publication date: 1935-10-08
Anticipated expiration: 1952-10-08

Description

JMGRA NAT COMBINED ENGAGEMENT AND WBDDINQ/RINGS Filed May 19, 1954 INVENTOR. JOSEPH GRHNHT v i ATTORNEY.

Patented Oct. 8, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE COMBINED ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS This invention relates to improvements in rings and has particular reference to ring ensembles wherein the rings forming the ensemble are locked or joined one to the other so as to prevent axial 5 rotation of one with respect to the other.

The principal object is to construct a combined engagement and wedding ring ensemble wherein the appearance of the two rings when joined together are always maintained in their 10 proper relationship, thus conveying their significance to the public.

A further object is to produce a ring ensemble which will not increase the cost of the ensemble to the purchaser.

15 A still further object is to produce an ensemble which is pleasing in appearance, balanced as to the contours on opposite sides of the ring being the same for each ring in the ensemble, thereby permitting the rings to be turned so that either 20 side of one ring when brought into contact with the other ring forming the ensemble will fit one with the other thus securing a locked condition.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

25 In the accompanying drawings forming a part The custom of wearing rings to signify certain I status of a person has become universally adopted. 40 For instance, it has become a universal practice to employ a ring of a certain character to signify an engagement and to wear a different type of ring to signify a marriage. The engagement ring, in practically all instances, consists of a 45 shank portion which surrounds the major portion of the finger and serves to hold a mounting in which a single stone is set. This single stone may be surrounded by smaller stones and the ring is often referred to as a solitaire engagement ring. The wedding ring is invariably a band which may be of the same contour throughout, or may be of the segment top pattern as covered in my Patent No. 1,792,422. Wedding rings for a great many years have employed stones upon their periphery, 55 which stones, unless carried entirely around the ring, cause the ring to be off-balance and to therefore turn upon the finger so that the stones or diamonds will soon be hid beneath the finger. Consequently the wearer of this type of ring, that is a wedding ring having stones therein, is constantly rotating the wedding ring in order to keep the stones upper-most upon the finger.

Applicant has devised a means of overcoming this rotating efiect by locking the engagement and wedding ring one to the other and it has been found that this locking of the rings together not only prevents one ring to rotate with relation to the other, but serves to prevent both rings from rotating upon the finger. This is brought about by the natural flexing of the hands and the fatty part of the finger tending to squeeze the shank portions toward each other, thus locking the rings to the finger itself through the clamping action, thus automatically formed by the bending of the finger.

In the accompanying drawing wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates the shank of an ordinary engagement ring and the numeral 6 the mounting carried by the shank and adapted to have a stone 1 positioned therein. This mounting being of greater width than the shank necessarily forms projections beyond the shank, which projections may have a contour such as shown at 8 and 9. At II I have shown the shank of a wedding ring having the customary segmental top H, the shank ll being joined to the segment l2 through the employment of ornamental ends l3, which extend beyond the side margins of the segmental top. This extension of the ornaments forms a recess A which is of the same width and length as the projection outlined by the contours 8 and 9. Consequently when the two rings are placed together and worn upon the finger, the contour 8 of the engagement ring will fit into the space a of the wedding ring and as both sides of the rings are identical, anyway the rings are arranged upon the finger they will interlock.

In the modified form, the only difference is that the sides of the wedding ring are convexed so as to fit the concave side of the engagement ring. Thus it will be seen that the contour of one ring may be varied to fit the contour of -the other, thus permitting many patterns or de- 0 signs which will'come within the scope of the claims.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes relative to the material, size, shape and arrangements of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or scope of the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:- 1. In a ring ensemble, a pair of rings adapted to be placed in axial alignment one with the other, both of said rings having circumferentially elongated mountings, an axially extending projection formed on one of said rings and a complementary depression formed in the other 0! said rings, said projection and said depression extending throughout the length of the ring mountings and the projection of the one ring fitting into the depression of the other of said rings to prevent their turning relative to each other.

2. In combination with a finger ring having a major mounting with a portion formed to project from the ring proper along the finger of the wearer, a second ring having a segment, one side face of which is shaped to fit about said projecting portion sufliciently to produce an interengagement therebetween preventing axial rotation of one ring in respect to the other, the opposite side face of said segment having substantially the same contour as said first mentioned face whereby the transverse dimension of said segment is substantially uniform throughout its length to provide at least sufllcient area to receive gems and engraving.

JOSEPH GRANAT.