US2584087A - Jewelry article - Google Patents

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Jan. 29, 1952 N. BARBIERI 2,584,087

JEWELRY ARTICLE Filed Oct. 15. 1947 INVENTOR.

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Patented Jan. 29, 1952 oFEicE JEWELRY: ARTICLE I Nicholas Barbieri, Providence, R. I.,. assign" to Uncas Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Rhode Island Application October 15, 1947, Serial No. 17am 1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a jewelry article such.

for instance, as a finger ring or some other article of jewelry which may be worn upon the person.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide an article of jewelry, which will have mounted in it some utilitarian element such, for instance, as a compass and a sundial, or some other utilitarian element.

Another object of this invention is to provide a ring with a novel means of mounting such an element therein.

Another object of this invention is to provide a protection for such utilitarian element and, yet, such an arrangement that the element may be seen when the article of jewelry is worn.

Another object of this invention is to provide a simple and efilcient means of assembling and retaining in place various parts which enter into the functional element.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is aperspective view of a finger ring embodying the invention of this application;

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the ring;

Figure 3 is an exploded view illustrating the various parts which go to make up the ring mounting and the element which is mounted therein.

In proceeding with this invention, I form an opening in the top of a ring or such article of jewelry as is to support the utilitarian element, and then provide a cup which may snugly fit into the opening, and this cup is provided with a shoulder which prevents it passing completely through the opening and serves as a stop for the element to rest in position in the support in which it is mounted. This cup is provided with a recess which serves to retain a transparent cover for the cup, while the flange supports indicia to be observed. A style may also be mounted on the transparent cover for the cup, so as to cast its shadow that a sundial may be effectively provided. In order that the sundial may be set correctly in position, a compass is located in the cup which may be observed by the user in positioning the device properly with reference to the sun in any particular location.

With reference to the drawings, in designates the shank of the ring which is adjustable by reason 01 its end portions H and i2 being overlapping, so that the encircling size of the ring may I be varied. In the top portion H of the ring, I

have provided an opening 15 which extends completely through the top, such as illustrated in Figures 2 or 3. This opening is for the reception of the utilitarian element which is to be mounted in this support.

The utilitarian element which is herein illustrated comprises a cup, designated generally 15 and consisting of a bottom wall I! with a cylindrical side wall I8 upstanding therefrom. This wall is deflected outwardly as at I9, so as to provide an abutment 20 which encircles the cup. The bottom wall has a pin 2! of metal driven through the bottom wall to tightly fit therein, as at 22. A plate 23, having an opening 24 therein to receive the pin 2|, rests upon the bottom wall of the cup and is provided with markings 25, for instance, as the cardinal or inter-cardinal points of the compass. A magnetized needle 26 is provided with a cup-shaped mid-portion 21 so as to rest upon the pin 2|, and will be free to rotate on this vertical point when the device is in substantially horizontal position. 1

A cover plate 28 fits against the abutment 29 formed on the inner surface of the cup and is in sufliciently close proximity to the raised portion 21 of the needle, so as to prevent the needle from being dislodged from the spur. (See, for instance, Figure 2.) In order to secure this member in place, it may be cemented. The plate 28 also supports a style or gnomon 32. The flange 19 has an annulus 3| which has several markings, as 33 thereon, to divide the circular area into divisions for assistance in the determining of the position of the sun, or the shadow cast by the style 32. 4

The annulus or flange 19 carrying indicia 36, such as the numbers shown in Figure 1 herein, encircles the opening I! when the cup is positioned in the opening l5.

This cup snugly fits'in the opening [5, so that a pressed fit will be required to position it in place. A transparent cover 31 snugly fits the flange l9 and protects the style and surface markings on the transparent plate 28 and annulus 35.

I claim:

In a ring for personal wear having a finger wearing shank merging into a top wall having a irusto-conical edge with a flat upper surface provided with an opening extending completely through said wall at right angles to said surface, said opening being of a size to provide a marginal upper edge surface about said opening,

a cup of a depth no greater than the thickness of said Wall received in said opening and having a flange thereon resting on said marginal upper edge surface covering an area less than the surface area thereof, said flange having a recess extending about said cavity in the cup providing a shoulder, a transparent plate extending over said cup and resting on said shoulder and extending flush with said flange and cemented to said shoulder, a transparent generally hemispherical dome with its surface forming substan tially an extension of said frusto-conical surface and extending about and secured in contact with the peripheral edge of said flange and the surrounding flat surface 01' said wail, means mounted on said transparent plate and means within said cup to be viewed through said plate and dome.

NICHOLAS BARBIERI.

4 REFERENCES orrEn The following references are or record in the file of this patent:

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