US2351925A - Jewelry clip - Google Patents

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June 20, 1944. M CHERNOW 2,351,925

.JEWELRY CLIP Filed July 5, 1941 INVENTOR Mac/we! Cher/20 "place between said jaws.

Patented June 20, 1944 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE J EWELRY CLIP Michael Cher-now, New York, N. Y. Application July 3, 1941, Serial No. 409,918

Claims.

The present invention relates to jewelry clips and has its preferred application to earrings of the clip type.

Among the objects of the invention are to provide a jewelry clip and more particularly an earring clip of a minimum number of simple inexpensive parts which may be applied to the ear in an instant, and which is devoid of springs, ratchet or screw locking adjustments that are subject to wear, jamming or other derangement in use, and which frequently result on the one hand in discomfort to the wearer due to pinching the ear lobe or on the other in looseness and loss of the clip, the clip of the present invention despite its simplicity, inherently afiording a secure hold upon the ear lobe, regardless of the thinness or thickness of such lobe. without the possibility of pinching and indeed without the wearer even being aware of any pressure on the ear lobe. y

In the accompanying drawing in which are shownone or more of various possible embodiments of the several features of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a front view with parts broken away showing the earring clip in use,

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on a greatly enlarged scale, taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view taken onthe line 4-4 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one embodiment of clip arm, and

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view generally similar to Fig. 4 of a modification.

Referring now to the drawing, there is illustratively shown an earring clip which comprises the ornamental face member or plate III to the rear face of which is soldered, brazed, welded or otherwise attached the base of a U-shaped bracket I I having a-pair of upstanding Jaws l2 extending directly therefrom. Between the jaws of the bracket is hinged a clip arm l3, desirably a stamped metal clip arm or one blanked out of sheet-metal stock of uniform thickness. This arm desirably includes an eyeI-ll interposed between the jaws of the bracket. A rivet l5 placed transversely through the bracket Jaws and the interposed eye ll securely clamps the latter in Desirably, thev eye has than the shank of the frictionally held as an a bore it slightly larger rivet IS, the latter'being axle in the two bracket Jaws II. The eye of the clip arm is preferably split as at l1, and the split edges are oflset or displaced laterally in the manner of a lock washer.

.In the assembled unit, the pressure exerted by the rivet brings the metal of the eye l4 into a common plate, so that in its tendency to spread out to the form shown in Fig. 5, it exerts a resilient or frictional hold against the jaws ll! of the bracket, and thereby keeps the hinged arm from easy displacement out of any position in which it is set.

In the earring embodiment particularly, the width of the clip arm l3 extends generally parallel to the length of the rivet and the plane of the eye is at right angles to said arm, the metal of the arm being twisted'for that purpose at l8 at a point near but beyond the jaws l2 of the bracket..

The clip arm preferably flares outward toward its free end, which presents a generally convex holding cup conformation IQ of substantial diameter, in the neighborhood of 1; inch. The concave I holding cup end "desirably has transverse ribs with the bracket ll against the lower edge 2| of the lobe. the convex gripping cup IQ of the arm will rest in the concavity 22 of said lobe, the human ear lobe presenting considerably more flesh about its entire rim 23 than it does in its mid portion 22.

Thus, in use, the clip can be instantly applied to the ear, the gripping cup 19 becoming registered with the concavity 22 in the ear lobe. The lock washer l4 and tight rivet l5 result in the clip remaining in any position of pivoted adjustment. The relatively large surface of the holding cup on the cliparm and the transverse ribs 20 thereof enhance thev frictional hold and also prevent angular displacement'of the earring from its initial set position. Avery substantial pull on the clip would therefore be required to cause the hinged clip arm to pivot outward as it must before the clip can be drawn over the more fleshy rim 23 of the ear lobe. As a consequence the hold of the clip is especially secure, even though neither a spring nor a screw is used to fasten the clip to the ear.

The earring clipinaddition to the face plate l0 involves merely the bracket H, th arm IS with its split eye It and the rivet l5. There is nothingto jam 'orbecome deranged. There is no spring, or' screw, or ratchet to weaken or loosen by wear or use and the article is very come fortable to wear.

The embodiment of Fig. 6 resembles that of Figs. 1 to 5 except that the eye ll of the arm II is not split but one or two additional split lock washers 25 and 26 are interposed between the hinged arm l3 and the bracket jaws l2.

As many changes could be made in'the above article and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope of the claims, it is having a pair of jaws, a stamped metal clip arm having an eye unitary therewith at right angles to the general plane thereof, and interposed between said jaws, said eye being split to form a lock washer and a rivet transversely through said jaws and said interposed eye, and retaining the parts of the latter in a common plane for frictional hold of the-pivot arm in any position of pivotal adjustment thereof.

' 2. A jewelry clip comprising a face plate having a bracket rigidly afllxed to the rear face thereof and presenting 'a pair of jaws, a hinged metal clip arm presenting an eye at right angles to the plane thereof and interposed between said jaws, one or more'splitlock washers interposed between the eye and the jaws, and a rivet transversely through said parts, thereby to maintain the clip arm frictionally in any position of pivotal adjustment thereof.

3. A jewelry clip comprising a face member, a bracket having a base rigidly affixed to the back thereof and having a pair of jaws extending from said face member, a stamped metal clip arm having an eye unitary therewith at right angles to the general plane thereof, and interposed between said jaws, and a rivet transversely through said jaws and said interposed eye, andv and said eye having clea'rance with respect to said rivet.

4. The jewelry clip recited in claim 3, in which the eye is split to form a lock washer.

5. An article of clip jewelry comprising a face member, a U-shaped bracket secured to the rear thereof and having a pair of jaws extending therefrom, a clip ann hinged at one end between said jaws and twisted at right angles beyond but near said jaws, a rivet across said jaws and said clip arm, and coacting with said jaws frictionally to retain the arm under the compression of said rivet against ready pivoting displacement from any position of hinging adjustment.

MICHAEL CHERNOW.

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