Patent ID: 6880363

Claim:
A connecting structure for a multiple-strand jewelry having a plurality of parallel aligned ornamental strands, comprising: a first connector having a first side and a second side for engagement with first distal ends of the multiple-strand jewelry; and a second connector removably engages with the first connector via a fastener, the second connector having a first side and a second side for engagement with second distal ends of the multiple-strand jewelry, wherein the first connector comprises: (a) a terminal formed on the first side, (b) the second side, opposite to the first side, having at least two longitudinally aligned and evenly distributed outlets for gathering first distal ends of the ornamental strands, (c) a top end defined by an uppermost outlet for attachment with a first distal end of an uppermost ornamental strand, (d) a bottom end defined by a lowermost outlet for attachment with a first distal end of a lowermost ornamental strand, (e) a surface plane extending from the first side to the second side, wherein (1) said terminal on the first side is a hollow bored perpendicularly to the surface plane and positioned entirely below a median, wherein the median is an imaginary plane that perpendicularly bisects a linear distance between the top end and the bottom end of the first connector, and the terminal is adapted to pivotally engage the fastener which links to the second connector for encirclement, and the said first connector is rotatable with respect to the terminal and parallel to the surface plane when the jewelry is in use, (2) moment about the terminal, when the necklace is in use, progressively increases from the lowermost outlet to the uppermost outlet along the second side of the first connector, thereby retaining the strands in a stacked arrangement.