US1830619A - Finger ring - Google Patents

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Nov.- 3, '1931. w. c, PA'TT 1,830,619

FINGER RING Filed Sept. 24. 1929 Patented Nov. 3, 1931 UNITED STATES .iS- T FFICE WINFIELD C. PATT, OF AUBURN, RHODE ISLAND, AYSSIfSrlhTOE-V T Li G. BALFOUR COIVIV-,I

PANY, 0F ATTLEBORO, AMASSAGT-IUSETTS, A COB-PORATIN 0F MASSACHUSETTS FINGER RING- Applicaton led September 24, 1929. SeralNo. 394,780.

My invention relates to emblem nger rings of the type wherein the ornamental 1nsignia of the mounting is exposed above a stone.

Heretofore in this type of ring the metal insignia or ornament rested clamped upon the exposed face of the stone by pegs or screw passing through holes in the stone. This involved drilling which cracked, weakened, and sometimes destroyed the stone or ornament, and involved a great labor expense.

The essential objects of my invention are to avoid drilling or otherwise mutilating, weakening, or destroying the stone; to accommodate the setting for stones of various thicknesses; to enable the use of stones of dif* ferent circumferential dimensions without unsightliness or ingress of dirt; to enable the mounting of the stone without a lateral incision of the ring head; and to attain these ends in a structure inexpensive and easy to construct.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification,

F iOures 1 and 2 are a top plan view and a side elevation respectively of a ring embodying my invention,

Figure 3, an enlarged' fragmentary section of the same on line 3-3 of Figure 1,

Figure 4, a perspective view of the stone and its contiguous parts assembled preparatory to mounting, and

Figures 5, 6 and 7, similar views respectively of the ring, stone, and cup disassembled. V

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

As herein shown the ring comprises the shank 10 and head or table 11. The latter is centrally bored to form a vertically disposed hole or opening 13, in this instance peripherally elliptical in outline.

Integral with or fixed to the upper face of the table is an ornamental housing plate provided with a central elliptical recess 16 substantially coinciding with the opening 13.

`The plate comprises an elliptical frame 18 bounding the recess 16, and a central ornament, emblem, or insignia 17 covering the recess provided with visual apertures or interstices 19 opening into the r-ecess. These apertures are optionally andartistically arranged in number and shape to conform to the particular figure constituting the ornament. In this instance the apertures are four l f `in this instance iselliptical. Thesestones commercially vary more or less in thickness and lateral dimensions. rllhe stone before insertion into the ring is more orl less encased in metal thus. The stone is placed in a supporting member 22 comprising an 'el-V liptical plate 23 and preferably a vertical fla-nge 24. An open cap 26, as shown in Figure 5, comprises. an ellipticalring or band 27 provided with an inwardly directed peripheral bead or flange 28. This flange overlaps the upper marginal face of the stone and supports the ring 27 which surrounds the stone. The combined height of the flange 24 and of the ring 27 is slightly less than the hcigh t of the stone, so as to accommodate the members 22 and 26 to stones of differing thicknesses; Y

Theflange'28 of thek ring 27 serves the ad ditionalv purpose of concealing from 4above any peripheral space which may occur between the ring and stone when .the latter varies in diameter, and also prevents the ingress of dust and dirt.

T he stone, substantially enclosed with thev exception of its open top, is manually slid into its seat with the flange 28 or the stone 20 in: contact with the portion 17 of the plate, and is fixed therein by the insertion of solder between the periphery of the plate 23 and the ring head or table 11, as at 30.

lt will be observed that the insignia 17, carried by or integral with the plate 15 has, by virtue of the interstices or apertures 19 which s expose the stone 20, the appearance of an orna-ment fixed directly to the stone. Further,

that no rivets, screws, or other elements injurious to the stone are employed, nor does the insertion of the stone into the ring head linvolve any lateral incision in the latter.

The members 22 and 26 upon the exterior of the stone facilitates the assembling of the rind.

llhe form of ring shown combines all the advantages hereinabove set forth, but it Will be understood that rings may be designed.

which 'will embody some of the advantages Without embodying all, and that such rings Would be Within the invention, the various features ot which are not limited in their vscope to construction in which all said fea-n tures are present.

l claim 1. A linger ring or the like having a table, a vertical bore extending therethrough, an insignia plate spanning the. upper end of saidbore but leaving exposed visual openings, a stone within said bore, means for supporting said stone With its top surface adjacent said insignia plate and an open top metal cap, the interior of which lits said stone and the exterior of which tits said bore.

2. A linger ring or the like having a table,

a housing plate mounted thereon, a vertical bore extending through the housing plate and table. an insignia plate mounted on said housin plate and spanning the upper end of the bore but leaving exposed visual openings, a stone Within said bore, means for supporting said stone with its top surface adjacent said insignia plate and an open top metal cap, the interior of which lits the stone and the exterior of Which fits said bore. Y i

3. A finger ring or the like having a table, avertical bore extending therethrough, an in# signifi plate spanning the upper end of the bore but leaving exposed visual openings, a

stone Within said bore, a cup for supporting the stone With its Vtop adjacent said insignia plate, and an open top metal cap, the interior ci Whichts said stone and the exterior of which fits said bore.

^i-. A linger ring or the like having a table, a veit-ical bore extending therethrough, an insignia plate spanning the upper end of the` bore but leaving exposed visual openings, a stone Within said bore, means forsupporting said stone with its top surface adjacent said insignia plate and an open vtop metal cap, the interior ot which fits said stone and the exterior of Which lits said bore, said cap forining a rim at the upper end of said bore.

In testimony whereof I have aiiixed myfsignature.

, WINFIELD C.y PATT.

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