Abstract: A ring for wearing by a user includes a rigid outer annular body and a flexible inner annular body. In one embodiment, the outer annular body is a rigid material formed from a process other than injection molding, and the inner annular body is flexible and formed from an injection molded process. The outer annular body is attached to the inner annular body. The inner annular body may be machined to curve from longitudinal ends of the inner annular body to an inner surface of the inner annular body after the inner annular body is joined to the outer annular body in order to provide a comfort fit. Alternatively, the inner annular body may be molded with the comfort fit curvature. In one embodiment, the outer annular body has at least one strain relief recess in an inner surface thereof, and the inner annular body fills said strain relief recess.

Abstract: A magnetic buckle includes first and second buckle members. The first buckle member includes a first end and a second end adapted to engage a strap, a mounting surface, a latching aperture defined in the mounting surface, and a first magnet. A release direction extends along a longitudinal axis of the first buckle member from the first end to the second end. The second buckle member includes a joining surface adapted to be joined with the mounting surface, a latch hook adapted to engage the latching aperture extending from the joining surface, and a second magnet. The magnets pull the latch hook into engagement with the latching aperture when the joining surface is placed in proximity to the mounting surface. Engagement of the latching aperture by the latch hook prevents the second buckle member from being pulled apart from the first buckle member in a direction orthogonal to the mounting surface or against the release direction.

Abstract: In some implementations, a belt includes a buckle and a strap securable in a loop by the buckle. The strap may include a first outer layer and a second outer layer, a mounting plate secured between the first outer layer and the second outer layer, and a translating buckle mount coupled to the mounting plate. The translating buckle mount may be configured to releasably mount the buckle and to elastically translate back and forth within the mounting plate so that the buckle is movable within the strap relative to the first and second outer layers to vary the circumference of the belt when the belt is worn around a waist of a user.

Abstract: A vented or decorative finger ring and its method of manufacture that employs a co-injection mold casting of the vented or decorative finger ring that is formed with joined outer and inner rings where the inner ring includes a plurality of interconnected lateral and longitudinal slots or grooves, where the lateral slots or grooves are space apart and extend from the inner ring edges that each connect to a series of linked longitudinal slots or grooves formed around the inner ring that extend to the inner surface of the outer ring, forming air flow paths across the inner ring, between the inner ring edges.

Abstract: A vented finger ring and its method of manufacture are provided. The vented ring includes an outer ring portion, an inner ring portion, and an anti-stretch element positioned between the outer ring portion and the inner ring portion. The inner ring portion includes lateral grooves connected to inner grooves, the connected lateral grooves and inner grooves forming at least one fluid conduit from a first side of the vented ring to a second side of the vented ring. The method includes injecting a first material into a first mold to form an outer ring portion, injecting a second material into a second mold to form an inner ring portion, and positioning an anti-stretch element between the outer ring portion and the inner ring portion. The second mold includes at least one feature on a surface thereof, the at least one feature corresponding to connected lateral grooves and inner grooves on an inner surface of the inner ring portion.