Bead Stringing Patents (Class 223/48)
  • Patent number: 11571034
    Abstract: A handheld weaving tool is provided, the tool including a housing having a first end opposite a second end and a sidewall extending therebetween defining an interior volume. The second end comprises at least one aperture therethrough. A needle is disposed within the housing and can selectively move between an extended position and a retracted position, wherein an extended position, the needle extends through the aperture, and wherein a retracted position, the needle is disposed entirely within the housing. An opening is disposed in the first end, wherein the opening is dimensioned to receive a thread therethrough, such that the thread is operably connected to the needle. A motor is disposed within the housing and can reciprocally move the needle between the extended position and the retracted position. A control is disposed on the housing and activates the motor when actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventor: Shermaine Stuart-Richards
  • Patent number: 11415467
    Abstract: A sleeving apparatus includes a worm gear. The worm gear has a plurality of threads, the worm gear receptive of a bead between adjacent threads of the plurality of threads. A plurality of flexible diaphragms are positioned along the worm gear. Each diaphragm of the plurality of diaphragms is configured to position a wire in alignment with a central bead opening of the bead. With rotation of the worm gear about a worm gear axis, the bead advances onto the wire with the wire passing into the central bead opening. The plurality of diaphragms are configured to allow passage of the bead through each diaphragm of the plurality of diaphragms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KIDDE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Stanley Rogers, Daniel James Galway
  • Patent number: 10617108
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device that facilitates the mounting of beads onto a fishing hook, such as a fly fishing hook. In one embodiment, the device may have a storage chamber and one or more of a loading access tip, a bead loading hole and/or a beading access tip. In some devices, the one or more of a loading access tip, a bead loading hole and/or a beading access tip may be combined. In an embodiment, the loading access tip, bead loading hole, or beading access tip allows the loading of the beads into the device. The bead loading hole and the beading access tip facilitates the beading of a fishing hook. The device(s) may further have one or more of slits or holes to facilitate the beading of the fishing hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy Harshbarger, Todd Cassidy, Mark Martel, Philip Morrison Allred, III
  • Patent number: 9695530
    Abstract: An apparatus that facilitates commencement and execution off-loom bead weaving stitches such as, but not limited to, odd/even count Peyote (Gourd), Two (or more) Drop Peyote, Herringbone (Ndebele), Brick (Comanche/Cheyenne), Right Angle Weave, Netting, and derivative stitches. The apparatus in all embodiments provides means to temporarily secure beads by use of one or more of the following: a nonflexible or flexible filament-with or without aid of a sewing needle, friction, clasping with means to engage and disengage or a releasable adhesive in a format that enables the user to have improved sightline and access to the beads, improved control of bead placement resulting in a reduction of color placement and stitch execution errors, and allows the completed or in progress beadwork to be removed from the apparatus intact. The apparatus may be formatted for bead size and configured or combined to accommodate the width of the desired beadwork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Inventor: Deborah Jean Hall
  • Publication number: 20140166150
    Abstract: A beading loom includes two side supports spaced apart in a lateral direction, and a plurality of shafts rotatably connected to the supports. The shafts include first and second thread fixing shafts, and first and second thread supporting shafts. Each of the first and second thread supporting shafts includes first and second thread supporting portions elongated in the lateral direction. In each thread supporting shaft, the first and the second thread supporting portions are provided at different positions in the circumferential direction of the shaft. Each of the first and the second thread supporting portions includes a plurality of grooves arranged at a pitch in the lateral direction. The pitch of the grooves of the first thread supporting portion differs from the pitch of the grooves of the second thread supporting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CLOVER MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yui TERAMOTO, Yasuhiro FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 8602274
    Abstract: A method of making an article comprising links is disclosed. The method includes a step of generating a link pattern according to a pre-selected portion of the article. The link pattern comprises a plurality of link indicia that correspond to plurality of links. After associating each link from the plurality of links with a link indicia from the plurality of link indicia, a plurality of threads may be threaded through the plurality of links to form a link matrix. The link matrix may be associated with the pre-selected portion of an article to make an article comprising links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Aveni
  • Patent number: 8522439
    Abstract: A system and method for stringing decorative elements onto a stringing element to make jewelry, such as a necklace or bracelet. A jig is provided that has holds a first tube. The first tube has a first end, a second end, an inside diameter and an outside diameter. The outside diameter is smaller than the inside diameter of the stringing holes in the decorative elements. The first tube is set as a cantilever. At least some of the decorative elements are set onto the first tube over its first end. The first tube extends through the stringing hole in each of the decorative elements. A stringing element is advanced through the first tube. The first tube is then removed. This leaves at least some of the stringing element strung through the stringing hole of each of the decorative elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Christopher G. Neuman
  • Publication number: 20130048684
    Abstract: A beading device is disclosed that can be used to assist users when threading beads onto clothing and accessories. The beading device comprises a handle and an elongated wire. The elongated wire is secured to the middle of the handle via threading an end of the wire through a continuous opening in the middle of the handle and then securing the ends of the wire together to form a continuous loop. Beads are then threaded onto the loop of the elongated wire. A user then opens the loop and places a piece of fringe through the wire loop. The user then moves the beads, transferring the beads from the loop of the elongated wire to the fringe. The user then pulls the end of the fringe out from the wire loop and ties a knot in the end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Bambi Miller, David Miller
  • Patent number: 8132596
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of using a bead weaving device for assisting manufacturing by jewelry makers and facilitating the positioning, stringing, cross-weaving, peyote chain maille, and accurate sizing for but not limited to necklaces, bracelets, and other hand woven beaded products. The bead weaving device includes the following components: an inclined sizing plate optionally including an imperial-measure graduated scale and/or a metric-measure graduated scale, a brass toggle half securer, a stabilizer, a support base and removably couplable peyote block attachment and a support arm. The support base of the device is adapted for use on the lap of a user or on the surface of a substrate such as a table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Inventors: Robert F. Weidler, Renda K. Weidler
  • Patent number: 8066035
    Abstract: A bead stringing apparatus that enables the user to quickly restring pre-strung beads, of the type that are on temporary strings, commonly available in bead stores. The connectors on the apparatus pull both ends of the temporary string in a taut position over an open work space. This aligns the pre-strung beads automatically along the temporary string allowing them to be restrung easily by a permanent string or wire. The user can quickly resting rows of the pre-strung beads by putting their wire through the aligned holes and when the wire exits a row of the pre-strung beads the user can add in other loose beads on their wire to go in and between the pre-strung beads. This allows the user to create infinite designs and patterns of beadwork. The open work space around the pre-strung beads provides flexibility and ample room for the newly incorporated loose beads to hang down onto the permanent wire out of the way of the beading process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Inventor: Denise Marie Stevens
  • Patent number: 7992576
    Abstract: A hair extension kit enables user's hair to be coupled with extended hairs, and includes a fastening ring formed in a hollow shape, each respective upper end of the extended hairs being attached to an inner peripheral surface of the fastening ring; a guiding loop having a portion thereof received in the fastening ring and a guiding and holding part formed at the lower end thereof, the guiding loop being removable from the fastening ring; and a drawing loop having a portion thereof received between an inner wall of the fastening ring and the corresponding part of the guiding loop and a drawing and holding part formed at the lower end thereof, the drawing loop being removable from the fastening ring. The hair extension kit can increase the coupling force between the user's hair and the extension-hair via the fastening ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Joo San Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: In-Young Chang
  • Publication number: 20110168746
    Abstract: To provide a beads threading machine with which a thread can easily be put through a plurality of beads of various shapes, the beads threading machine comprising supporting portions which are disposed at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction to thereby support annular projecting portions of the beads, a thread holding portion which is disposed at one end side of the row of supporting portions, an insertion member having at a distal end thereof a hook portion, wherein by rotating the rotary plate in a forward direction, the insertion member is inserted through the beads to thereby dispose the hook portion in the thread holding portion, whereas by rotating the rotary plate in a reverse direction, a thread is caused to be hooked on the hook portion so that the thread hooked on the hook portion is put through the bead holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: EPOCH COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: Kei KAMIYAMA
  • Patent number: 7762284
    Abstract: A new and unique innovation in the art of bead weaving on a loom by eliminating the numerous remaining ends of the warp threads which, in other methods, must be woven back into the finished project. The innovation results in having only two remaining warp threads instead of many. The innovation also provides a new method for adjustment of the project length through the use of a “floating” rear vertical upright tailstock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Inventor: Paul Cuthbert Ricks
  • Publication number: 20100065590
    Abstract: This invention provides a new and unique innovation in the art of bead weaving on a loom by eliminating the numerous remaining ends of the warp threads which, in other methods, must be woven back into the finished project. This invention results in having only two remaining warp threads instead of many. This invention also provides a new method for adjustment of the project length through the use of a “floating” rear vertical upright (tailstock).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventor: Paul Cuthbert Ricks
  • Patent number: 7124918
    Abstract: A device including a rod having an end portion and a hooked portion is presented. The end portion and the hooked portion are located at opposite ends of the rod. A support is connected to the rod. The support includes a many rod guides. The hooked portion is adapted to string filamentous material through at least one bead that has a thru-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Inventor: Jodi Rascoe
  • Patent number: 6991141
    Abstract: Methods of using carnival beads to create twisted bead structures. A plurality of primary bead strands and shorter Prep pieces are twisted together in order to create quaternary structures having particular three-dimensional configurations. The structures can be interlocked together to form larger structures. The twisted beads can be coated with a protective coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Inventors: Marcus J. Ciko, Spencer Anderson
  • Publication number: 20040177859
    Abstract: A bead, a tool and a method are provided for applying the bead to hair. The bead may be constructed from a pliant and/or soft and/or resilient material, such as for example, rubber, foam, or the like. The bead may be placed around the tool which may hold one or more strands of the hair in a position for placement of the bead onto the hair. The bead may then be moved along a body of the tool until the bead is placed onto the strands of hair. The pliancy and/or softness and/or resiliency of the bead may enable the bead to be worn adjacent to the scalp without causing discomfort to a user. The bead may also be worn by a user during activities, such as, for example, running or like activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventor: Dorothy Coleman
  • Patent number: 6729508
    Abstract: A mechanical beading system is disclosed. Specifically, the beading system rotates a stiff but flexible beading wire inside an appropriately-shaped container of beads, causing them to slide onto the open end of the beading wire. The beading wire engages the beading mechanism with an endpiece which also allows the beading wire to be removeably fixed in place to complete the work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Meyer/Glass Design, Ltd.
    Inventors: Randall Jon Klimpert, Dianne Lauble
  • Patent number: 6719013
    Abstract: A bead-weaving system including a multiplicity of beads for spacing apart a multiplicity of warp threads, wherein the beads are pierced by a hole in their diameter and threaded on a weft thread by a needle and positioned between each warp thread, the needle having a body including an end portion having an eye for passage of a weft thread and another end portion including a bead holder extending along the another end portion to hold the beads in selected positions along the another end portion and a point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Heller S.A.
    Inventor: Mathias D'Estais
  • Patent number: 6015070
    Abstract: A portable bow making machine with three clutches controlling the size, arc generation and a no-back clutch assuring that the belt driving the impaler assembly doesn't go into reverse The user requiring no particular skill, merely threads the ribbon in a channel under the reciprocal carriage and the two stroke operation automatically makes one of the loops of the bow. Stroking continues until the bow is complete and a stapler automatically retracts the needles of the impaler and the staple is forced against an anvil to secure the bow. The stapler is configured to hold a removable self-gluing card that is concomitantly attached to the bow. The forward stroke carries a carriage and clapper along the carriage slides, The clapper reaches a predetermined point and drops onto the impaler to secure each of the loops to the bow. The return stroke repositions the carriage for the next forward stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Cromwell Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Barto, Jr., Ira L. Lopata
  • Patent number: 5664707
    Abstract: A tool for installing perforated beads on a strand of fibers, such as a strand of hair. The tool comprises a rod terminating in a closed loop at one end, and having a removable cap at the other end. When the cap is removed, perforated beads are sequentially loaded onto the rod. The cap is replaced, thus retaining the beads between the cap and the loop. The strand of fibers is passed through the loop. The loop is resilient, and is manually compressed to accommodate passage of the beads as the beads are pushed from the rod onto the strand of fibers. The tool is then disengaged from the strand. The beads may be secured in place by crimping one or more beads, or by applying a cement to the strand, or both. The cement may either act by adhering a bead to the strand, or by increasing the diameter of the strand so that it no longer passes through the bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Inventor: Paul Spector
  • Patent number: 5395245
    Abstract: The elastic pattern abacus relates to educational counting devices for learning basic number and arithmetic concepts. The present invention introduces a new flexible medium for threading and holding counters (beads or blocks of any shapes) in a sequence, such that: they slide easily, yet are automatically held stably at any desired positions along the sequence. The members of the abacus can be separated, counted, grouped, divided, and regrouped to demonstrate arithmetic concepts and number systems. A tool for changing the arrangement of the abacus beads is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1995
    Inventor: Ted Heinz