Patent ID: 8359883

Claim:
A jewelry setting for securing a plurality of gemstones within the setting, comprising: a base including a base top, four base walls circumscribing the base, four corners and a base bottom; a sunk surface located between and substantially parallel to said base top and said base bottom and having at least two rows of rectangular apertures extending through said sunk surface; each said aperture being surrounded by four walls, said walls partially circumscribe said aperture with gaps located between each adjacent wall of said four walls, said walls extending a distance from and above the sunk surface, but not beyond said base top receiving and securing said gemstone therein, said walls having either a plus-shape, T-shape or L-shape cross section, wherein said gemstone is secured at its girdle between said four walls surrounding said rectangular aperture with the crown of the gemstone being positioned above said four walls and the pavilion of the gemstone being positioned through said rectangular aperture in said sunk surface.