Patent ID: 7216508

Claim:
A magnetic jewelry-forming component for preparing a jewelry article, comprising a body member configured and dimensioned in an ornamental shape and having a plurality of spaced magnetized portions for attractive or repulsive magnetic association with at least one other magnetic jewelry-forming component, wherein the body member has a magnetic strength that can be overcome by a person's hand strength such that the body member and at least one other magnetic jewelry-forming component can be placed in different positions relative to each other, and wherein the magnetic field emitted or radiated by the plurality of magnetized locations is effective at a distance that is less than that which would be present if the entire component is magnetized, so that the jewelry component does not have a deleterious effect on magnetic-sensitive items that are handled by a person wearing the jewelry component, wherein the first and second components have inner and outer faces, and are magnetically coupled in face to face relation, with the members being capable of being coupled inner face to inner face or inner face to outer face so that the components can be changed to provide different appearances to the jewelry article.