Patents Represented by Law Firm Salter & Mcihaelson
  • Patent number: 5505061
    Abstract: Jewelry apparatus consists of a body portion having an ornamental outer surface and an ornament portion having an ornamental outer surface. The body portion includes an engagement formation preferably consisting of a cylindrical recess and a bore which extends axially inwardly from the center of the cylindrical recess. The ornament portion includes a complimentary engagement formation preferably consisting of a cylindrical neck which is slidably received in the recess of the body portion, and a post which is slidably received in the bore. When the engagement surfaces of the body and ornament portions are received in engagement, the ornamental surfaces thereof cooperatively merge so that the body portion and the ornament portion appear as an integral unit. The post frictionally secures the ornament portion to the body portion when received into the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1996
    Inventors: Edward J. Fleury, Jr., Debra A. Scorpio, James R. Wilson