SEGMENTED TRANSFORMABLE JEWELLERY ARTICLE HAVING VARIABLE STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS

Abstract: A system for the realization of gold-work and/or jewellery articles, out of precious metals and not, designed in sections (3, 4, 5, 6), sectors and portions of sectors, all provided with hookings of different kinds, that may possibly also be produced in combination on the same sector and also with different dimensions on each side, of the male-female alternate kind, so as to obtain, by the connection in sequence of said modules, compact but different products, that may be varied in time according to the demands.

Description: SEGMENTED TRANSFORMABLE OEWELLERY ARTICLE HAVING VARIABLE STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS The present invention concerns a system for the realization of gold-work and/or jewellery articles , out of precious metals and not , comprising a plurality of modules , designed in sections , sectors and portions of sectors , all provided with hookings of different kind, that may possibly also be produced in combination on the same sector and also with different dimensions on each side, of the male-female alternate kind, so as to obtain, by the connection in sequence of said modules , compact but different products , that may be varied in time according to the demands . The advantages deriving from the present invention are many and cosiderable. - A considerable reduction of the production costs , due to the nearly complete elimination of the weldings; - the multi-functionality , following to the realization of articles consistent one with the other, that may be transformed and that even transform themselves , that are able to change - completely or only partially - their use, e.g. from rings into ear-rings or other, making use of above mentioned arranged hooking structures, so as to create a system of articles consistent with each other, giving or receiving sectors to or from other articles and using different accessories; - the possibility of realizing catalogues of modules and components, in which the user may choose and compose articles that may be assembled according to his own taste, or may extende his purchase in time; - the possibility of completing a jewel, like a ring or similar, so as to transform it and to adapt it to the changed life and sentimental demands during the whole life of the user, as already claimed by the same applicant in patent applications nos. RM 93A000772, RM 93A000223, RM 93A000690 and RM 94A000501; - the possibility of adapting already realized jewels, by means of sections and hooking additions, so as to be inserted in the multi¬ functional system. A remarkable feature of the present invention consists of the modification and/or arrangement, during the realization, of the measure of the internal diameter or a ring and/or the wedding ring in particular, so as to allow its adaptation to possible anatomic changes of the user in his lifetime or to change its application, e.g. for wearing it at one finger instead than on another one, or from one person to another one. All said sectors or portions of sectors of the whole structures of the jewels may be arranged for being personalized with the addition o f interchangeable modules. By making use of multiples or submultiples of the many hooking systems, e.g. from a screw hooking to a release hooking or to a hooking of any other kind, according to the present invention the connection of sectors and/or portions of the same between each other and with internal structures is possible, for realizing modular and transformable jewels,e.g. from rings into different rings and/or into ear-rings and/or bracelets or other. Thus, portions of a jewel may be replaced by other portions of other articles, different or already arranged, for varying the aesthetic aspect, as for example when changing the stone of a ring with the one of a bracelet. The present invention will be described more in detail hereinbelow relating to the enclosed drawings, in which some embodiments are shown: figure 1, shows a multi-functional ring consisting of four modular elements; figure 2, shows a square section of a multi¬ functional ring and the detail of the ends for covering the hoking devices; figure 3, shows a multi-functional ring opened into four independent rings; figure 4, shows a multi-functional ring in an assemblying variant; figure 5, shows an independent ring formed by two smaller elements of figure 1; figure 6, shows a ring formed by two lateral sectors and one central sector provided by another multi-functional ring; figure 7, shows a multi-functional ring with decorations that may be replaced; figures 8, 9, 10, show multi-functional rings with different internal diameters; figures 11, 12, 13, show assemblying variants of rings with diversified diameters; figure 14, shows wedding rings with four elements; figure 15, shows an exploded view of wedding rings with four elements; figure 16, shows wedding rings transformed into a pendant; figure 17, shows an exploded and lateral view of the pendants of figure 16; figure 18, shows wedding rings transformed into ear-rings; figure 19, shows and exploded and lateral view of the ear-rings of figure 18; figure 20, shows variants of fasteners that may be used for the ear-rings of figure 18; figure 21, shows wedding rings transformed into picture-frames; figure 22, shows an exploded and lateral view of the picture-frames of figure 21; figure 23, shows central stones with the application of the wedding ring; figure 24, shows an exploded and lateral view of the central stones according to figure 23; figure 25, shows variants in the shape of the central stones of figure 23; figure 26, shows an exploded and a lateral view of the central stones of figure 25; figures 27, 28, 29, show elements of modular bracelets, that may be closed with a click and with decorations that may be replaced; figure 30, shows joints used for mounting the modular elemets of figures 27, 28, 29; figure 31, shows an example of a bracelet in its assemblying phase; figure 32, shows a "ring for the life" in a version for a single, with the central part our of white gold and the end parts out of gold; figure 33, shows a "ring for the life" in a version for engagement, with the central part our of white gold and the extroverted ends of gold; figure 34, shows a "ring for the life" in a version for marriage, with the central part our of white gold and half, end wedding rings of gold; figures 36, 36, 37 show "rings for the life" similar to those shown i figures 32, 33, 34, with the central part devided into two sectors, respectively out of white gold and platium; figure 38, shows a "ring for the life" consisting of a central wedding ring out of white gold/platinum, and half, end wedding rings of gold; figure 39, shows a "ring for the life" consisting of a central part shaped in two double wedding rings out of platinum/white gold and half, enf wedding rings out of gold; figure 40, shows an independent ring consisting of two half, end wedding rings uniteed by a small conection ring; figures 41, 42 show "rings for the life" that may receive, inside themselves, one or more wedding rings out of white gold/platinum, in silver or golden weddings. The enclosed figures show a system for the realization of gold-work and/or jewellery articles, in section, sectors and sector portions modules, that may be variedly assembled in sequence, comprising: - unified hookings, provided at the sides of the modules, in male 1 - female 2 sequence, in such a way as to form rings A or independent, disassembled rings 3, 4, 5, 6, or compound rings 7, with different sequences; - differentiated sectors 8, received in different rings for forming rings 9, while a ring from which a sector has been removed, may be closed again independently or used for the assembling of other jewels; - replaceable decorations 10, consisting of portions of other articles; - differentiated, internal diameters 11, 12, 13, that may be assembled variedly, for modifying the internal dimensions and/or the fingers. By applying above mentioned means, the wedding ring 14 with four elements 15, 16, 17, 18 (shown in figures 14, 15), may be trasformed into a pendant 19, with the addition of the suspension ring 20, or into an ear-ring 21 with the fasteners 22, 23, 24, 25 for application to the lobes of the ears, or into picture-frames 26 or central stones 27, 28. According to the present invention, a jewel like a bracelet may be realized without weldings, with elements devided into two rectangular, square or round parts 29, 30, that may be closed with a release for catching the connection articulation or links 33, that may be inserted into the grooves or eyelets 31. Thus, the bracelet may be immediately lengthened or reduced and decorated with possible stones 32, of different shapes. According to the present invention, if two end parts are applied by means of hookings to a central sector, a shell is obtained, as below said central stone, in a hollow space, a second sheet may be inserted , obtaining a s ingle ring consisting of two, independent rings having the same internal diameter ; once they are disassembled , said ends may be closed again between each other, without the central part and form a new ring. It is evident that said described feature concerns the end parts of any article. Following above described application , the ring that follows the user his whole life long will be transformed - starting from a central , white gold sector 33 and from two lateral golden end parts 34 , having the same outer diameter - on occasion of an engagement, by replacing two extroverted end parts 35 so as to form a central groove, and on occasion of a wedding, by replacing two golden half-wedding rings 36. In a variant, the central part may be devided into two sectors , as shown in figures 35 , 36 , 37 , out of white gold 33 and platinum 37 , in a plain version as well as with extroverted ends and with lateral half-wedding rings . Relating to figure 39 , the "ring for the life" may be formed with a central white gold or platinum wedding ring 38, or with two external golden half- wedding rings 36. Figure 39 shows a variant of the system according to the present invention, consisting of a central wedding ring 39, formed with two elements, out of platinum and/or white gold, that allows the realization of an independent ring 40 as shown in figure 40, consisting of two half-wedding rings 36 linked by a small central connection ring 41 or by a plurality of small rings at different levels. On occasion of silver or golden weddings, the "ring for the life" provides the presence, inside the same, of respectively one or two white gold or platinum wedding rings, as shown in figures 41, 42. In a possible variant of the system according to the present invention, the ring provides - for using and developping the same ring from engagement to marriage and to silver wedding - the presence, since the beginning, of a greater central sector, having such dimensions as to contain inside a wedding ring, with lateral end parts, also like half-wedding rings, shaped and dimensioned in such a way as to transform said central sector into a shell. If, on the other hand, a platinum wedding ring is desired, said central sector will be realized with larger dimensions, or a f rther sector will be added. If, on the other hand, the central, shell- shaped part of the "ring for the life" is not to be used, said central part may be realized with two flat sectors having the shape of a wedding ring, one out of white gold and one out of platinum, placing at the sides thereof the two golden ends. In a further variant that may be applied also to finished rings, the internal diameter may be varied by replacing end parts of different measures. Furthermore, it will be possible to assemble one or more small rings at different levels for realizing a groove, and to transform said wedding ring into a shell for receiving inside one or more rings, realizing a wedding ring into two sections and/or cutting an already existing wedding ring and providing it with one or more internal hookings at different levels. The pos sibility of obtaing a plurality o f functions , due to the system according to the present invention , allows a ring to interact with a plurality of rings having the same internal diameter , but also allows the same ring to get assembled and disassembled with rings having different internal diameters and to make use of arranged sectors . The sequency of the male-female hookings allows to insert a sector into an article performing a plurality of functions , or to cut it , still maintaining the capacity of getting composed again . One single ring may be undone into a plurality of independent rings with dif ferent internal diameters , making use of sectors , end parts , internal rings and shells of different thickness . Said sectors may be realized in all dimensions , according to their functions , and all replaceable between themselves with arranged , compatible hookings , and at different levels one to the other inside one and the same article , as well as being disposed one below the other or parallel to each other and/or transversal and/or oblique. For what concerns the hookings or the sectors and of the mentioned portions, they may be of all known kinds; furthermore, the sectors may provide the use of accessories of different kind, like reducers or enlargers, structures or modules arranged and provided with unified hookings for obtaining transformations from an object to another one. Two or more of said sectors may form a shell or have a different internal diameter or be shaped differently, having furthermore hookings of the same kind, at the same level and of the same dimensions and shapes, so as to realize a unified system in which all said sectors or rings having the same internal finger diameter, or planned measure groups, are compatible with each other so as to be undone and/or composed in all possible manners. As a consequence, also the already existing rings - besides those realized with the realization system and relative process according to the present invention - may all be transformed and/or sectioned and/or provided with dimensioned and unified hookings, so as to make them compatible with other multifunctional articles, and applying to them also lateral end parts which allow the modification of their internal diameter, according to the purpose of the present invention. In that way, the articles and/or the multifunctional rings, obtained with the realization process accordig to the present invention, may be formed by a whole of rings and/or shells of any shape, variedly assembled into a compound that follows the most important moments in the life of a person. The realization process according to the present invention also allows to tighten and to widen any kind of ring, as already described. Furthermore, in a variant, in the case of a shell-shaped wedding-ring, containing a second wedding-ring, it may be arranged to leave between the two a hollow space so that, if the end parts will be replaced with new ones having a wider inner diameter, and widening with a conventional system said inner wedding-ring, the latter will occupy said hollow space, varying the inner diameter. In a further variant the inner wedding-ring, of greater thickness, may be widened by turning. Also one single sector may form, according to the present invention, an independent ring, as it is provided with at least two hookings on each side, to which two lateral end parts may be applied for determining the inner diameter, according to the needs. If above described widening and tightening processes can not be applied, the system according to the present invention provides the arrangement of a ring in three sectors - a central and two end sectors - wherein the central one is overdimensioned so as to be carried on a larger finger, and the end sectors are realized with different inner diameters for being carried on different fingers or by different persons, so as to reeduce the need of the large choice for the dealers, in detail for special rings like those with a diamond pave or those out of platinum with white gold surfacing and stones or enamels. In such a case, each of said end parts has small rings incorporated, for entering completely or partially inside the sector. In a variant, a ring may get caught between two circular sectors - a femal one, provided with a threaded metal ring in its internal diameter, and a male one with a corresponding threading on its external diameter - so that the latter may get inserted and screwed, inside said ring, to said first sector. The male as well as the femal sectors have, in their end part, cicumferential projections that may be housed in corresponding grooves obtained on the edge of the ring, which they modify. After a light turning in the inner wall of the ring, a small ring may be inserted under pressure and, if necessary, it may be replaced with a plurality of small rings of different thickness.

Claims: CLAIMS 1. A system for the realization of gold-work and/or jewellery articles, characterized in that said articles are designed in sections, sectors and portions of sectors, all provided with hookings of different kind, that may possibly also be produced in combination on the same sector and also with different dimensions on each side, of the male-female alternate kind, so as to obtain, by the connection in sequence of said modules, compact but different products, that may be varied in time according to the demands, as well as in the modification and/or arrangement, during the realization, of the measure of the internal diameter or a ring and/or the wedding ring in particular, so as to allow its adaptation to possible anatomic changes of the user in his lifetime or to change its application, e.g. for wearing it at one finger instead than on another one, or from one person to another one, and also in the addition of interchangeable modules and of multiples or submultiples of the many hooking systems for the connection, of sectors and/or portions of the same between each other and with internal structures is possible, for realizing modular and transformable jewels,e.g. from rings into different rings and/or into ear-rings and/or bracelets or other. 2. A system for the realization of gold-work and/or jewellery articles according to claim 1, characterized in: - unified hookings, provided at the sides of the modules, in male (l)-female (2) sequence, in such a way as to form rings (A) or independent, disassembled rings (3, 4, 5, 6), or compound rings (7), with different sequences; differentiated sectors (8), received in different rings for forming rings (9), while a ring from which a sector has been removed, may be closed again independently or used for the assembling of other jewels; - replaceable decorations (10), consisting of portions of other articles; - differentiated, internal diameters (11, 12, 13), that may be assembled variedly, for modifying the internal dimensions and/or the fingers. 3. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in that a wedding ring (14) with four elements 15, 16, 17, 18 may be trasformed into a pendant (19), with the addition of the suspension ring (20), or into an ear-ring (21) with the fasteners (22, 23, 24, 25) for application to the lobes of the ears, or into picture- frames (26) or central stones (27, 28). 4. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in that a jewel like a bracelet may be realized without weldings, with elements devided into two rectangular, square or round parts (29, 30), that may be closed with a release for catching the connection articulation or links (33), that may be inserted into the grooves or eyelets (31). Thus, the bracelet may be immediately lengthened or reduced and decorated with possible stones (32), of different shapes. 5. A system for the realization gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in that applying two end parts by means of hookings to a central sector, a shell is obtained, as below said central stone, in a hollow space, a second sheet may be inserted, obtaining a single ring consisting of two, independent rings having the same internal diameter; once they are disassembled, said ends may be closed again between each other, without the central part, and form a new ring. 6. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in that the ring that follows the person his whole life long will be transformed - starting from a central, white gold sector (33) and from two lateral golden end parts (34) , having the same outer diameter - on occasion of an engagement, by replacing two extroverted end parts (35) so as to form a central groove, and on occasion of a wedding, by replacing two golden half-wedding rings (36), whereby the end parts as well as the half-wedding rings may get closed between each other. 7. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claims 1 and 5, characterized in that the central part gets devided into two sectors out of white gold (33) and platinum (37), in a plain version as well as with extroverted ends and with lateral half- wedding rings. 8. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in a "ring for the life", formed with a central white gold or platinum wedding ring (38), or with two external golden half-wedding rings (36). 9. A system for the realization of gold-work and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in a central wedding ring (39), formed with two elements, out of platinum and/or white gold, that allows the realization of an independent ring (40), consisting of two half-wedding rings 36 linked by a small central connection ring 41, in turn comprising a further small ring that covers the groove and which gives birth to a larger wedding ring. 10. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in a ring with a greater central sector, having such dimensions as to contain inside a wedding ring, with lateral end parts, also like half-wedding rings, shaped and dimensioned in such a way as to transform said central sector into a shell. 11. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in a central part with two flat sectors having the shape of a wedding ring, one out of white gold and one out of platinum, placing at the sides thereof the two golden ends. 12. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in that it will be possible to assemble one or more small rings at different levels for realizing a groove, and to transform said wedding ring into a shell for receiving inside one or more rings allowing it to interact with the system concerning a plurality of objects with many functions, realizing a wedding ring, or a ring, into two sections and/or cutting an already existing wedding ring and providing it with one or more internal hookings at different levels. 13. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in that one single ring may be undone into a plurality of independent rings with different internal diameters, making use of sectors, end parts, internal rings and shells of different thickness. 14. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in that all already existing rings may be transformed and/or sectioned and/or provided with dimensioned and unified hookings, so as to make them compatible with other multifunctional articles, and applying to them also lateral end parts which allow the modification of their internal diameter. 15. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in the possibility of tightening and widening a shell-shaped wedding ring containing a second wedding-ring, leaving between the two a hollow space so that, if the end parts will be replaced with new ones having a wider inner diameter, and widening with a conventional system said inner wedding-ring, the latter will occupy said hollow space, varying the inner diameter. 16. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in that also one single sector may form an independent ring, as it is provided with at least two hookings on each side, to which two lateral end parts may be applied for determining the inner diameter. 17. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1 , characterized in the arrangement of a ring in three sectors - a central and two end sectors - wherein the central one is overdimensioned so as to be carried on a larger finger , and the end sectors are realized with dif ferent inner diameters for being carried on different fingers or by different persons , so as to reeduce the need of the large choice for the dealers , in detail for special rings like those with a diamond pave or those out of platinum with white gold surfacing and stones or enamels . 18. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1 , characterized in that a ring may get caught between two circular sectors - a femal one , provided with a threaded metal ring in its internal diameter , and a male one with a corresponding threading on its external diameter - so that the latter may get inserted and screwed, inside said ring, to said first sector. 19. A system for the realization of gold-work articles and/or jewellery according to claim 1, characterized in the presence of a small ring inserted under pressure into the inner wall of a ring, after a light turning, that may be possibly replaced with a plurality of small rings of differet thicknesses, for obtaining different internal diameters.

Inventors: CERQUA CLAUDIO CHRISTIAN, CERQUA, CLAUDIO, CHRISTIAN
Applicants: CERQUA CLAUDIO CHRISTIAN, CERQUA, CLAUDIO, CHRISTIAN
Application year: 1996
Main classification: A44C15
IPC codes: A44C9, A44C13, A44C15