Patent ID: 6962063

Claim:
A linear jewelry article of manufacture of a selected length to be worn in encircling relation about a user's neck as a necklace and about a user's wrist as a bracelet, said article comprising: A. a flaccid string of a selected length delimiting a linear extent thereof; B. plural beads with central openings therethrough characterized by (1) a first select number thereof of non-magnetic construction material, and (2) a remaining second select number thereof of magnetic construction material; C. operative positions of said plural beads disposed along said string with a bead of said first and a bead of said second select numbers in a uniform repetitive ratio to each other; D. cutting to a selected length said stringed beads according to a number of said uniform repetitive ratios of said first and second beads occurring therealong to obviate the tedium of counting; E. selecting as a length for cutting a length appropriate for use as a necklace and a length appropriate for use as a bracelet; and F. an operative position of a beaded string worn in helical turns on the person; whereby when worn as a necklace and when worn as a bracelet magnetic attraction of contacting magnetic beads solely maintain said helical turns without interconnection of the opposite ends of said article.