Chain – staple – and horseshoe making – Chains – Ornamental
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-28
2001-09-18
Jones, David (Department: 3725)
Chain, staple, and horseshoe making
Chains
Ornamental
C059S093000, C063S004000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06289664
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a bracelet formed by a flexible structure and a plurality of hard elements, especially metal elements. Some manufacturers of bracelets have already proposed bracelets which associated hard elements, especially metal elements, with flexible structures, especially of leather or fabric, in such a manner as to provide bracelets having an original aesthetic appearance.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The design, construction and assembly of such a bracelet is not at all clear to a man skilled in the art. Moreover, especially when the hard elements are made from a noble metal and the flexible structure suffers relatively major ageing from the wearer, it is necessary to be able to separate the hard elements from the flexible structure without damaging them. It is then desirable to be able to replace the flexible structure to renew a bracelet according to the invention, by assembling the hard elements with the new flexible structure. To this end it is desirable that the method of assembly will be efficient and relatively simple, to allow a user or a retailer to effect the replacement of the flexible structure himself and thus effect the assembly of the new flexible structure with the hard elements.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention seeks to provide a composite bracelet having, along a longitudinal direction of the bracelet, a median region in which the hard elements are located and two lateral regions located on one side and the other respectively of the median region, these lateral regions being formed by a flexible structure, in particular by a structure whose upper part is of leather or fabric. It is preferably provided that the hard elements associated with the same length of the bracelet are directly connected to one another in an articulated manner, thus themselves forming in themselves a metal bracelet which is assembled with a flexible structure comprising in one preferred embodiment a lower layer covering the said hard elements forming the central part of the visible face of the bracelet.
In one embodiment, an expansion of the flexible structure is provided, in the general surface defined by the bracelet, during the assembly of this structure with the hard elements in the median part of the bracelet.
In another embodiment of the invention an elastic deformation of the flexible structure is provided in a direction substantially perpendicular to the general surface of the bracelet during assembly of the flexible structure with the hard elements. This deformation takes place essentially in the vicinity of wings provided along the internal edges of the two longitudinal parts of the flexible structure located in the two lateral parts respectively of the bracelet.
Other features of the invention, in particular those set forth in the claims, and advantages of the invention will be seen clearly from the following detailed description, given with the aid of the accompanying drawings, and by way of non-limiting example.
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patent: 1820576 (1931-08-01), Mealy
patent: 2165115 (1939-07-01), Schultheiss
patent: 3682603 (1972-08-01), Pompeo
patent: 0 557 578 A1 (1993-09-01), None
Bourquin Aurele
Probst Jean-Claude
Griffin & Szipl, P.C.
Jones David
ProtAurec Sarl
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