U.S. patent application number 09/791471 was filed with the patent office on 2001-08-30 for ornamental pendant structure able to make up patterns in diy mode.
Invention is credited to Tseng, Shao-Chien.
Application Number | 20010017041 09/791471 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 4602018 |
Filed Date | 2001-08-30 |
United States Patent
Application |
20010017041 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Tseng, Shao-Chien |
August 30, 2001 |
Ornamental pendant structure able to make up patterns in DIY
mode
Abstract
An ornamental pendant structure able to make up patterns in a
DIY mode, wherein, a magnetic pad is provided on a pendant, and a
plurality of picture blocks are attracted by the magnetic pad of
the pendant to form the ornamental pendant structure. In the
structure, the picture blocks are modularized metallic platelets
capable of being attracted by the magnetic pad and capable of
forming a plurality of patterns. This gives the advantage of
changing into desired patterns on the ornamental pendant in a DIY
mode, and the ornamental pendant can have elevated practical value
in variant and brilliant ornamental effects.
Inventors: |
Tseng, Shao-Chien;
(Yang-Mei, TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
Keith Kline
PRO-TECHTOR INTERNATIONAL SERVICES
20775 Norada Court
Saratoga
CA
95070-3018
US
|
Family ID: |
4602018 |
Appl. No.: |
09/791471 |
Filed: |
February 22, 2001 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
63/1.11 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A44C 17/02 20130101;
A44D 2203/00 20130101; A44C 25/001 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
63/1.11 |
International
Class: |
A44C 013/00 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Feb 25, 2000 |
CN |
00205570.8 |
Claims
Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire
to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States are:
1. An ornamental pendant structure able to make up patterns in a
DIY mode, being characterized by that a magnetic pad is provided on
a pendant of said pendant structure, and a plurality of picture
blocks are pieced up on and attracted by said magnetic pad to form
desired ornamental patterns.
2. An ornamental pendant structure able to make up patterns in a
DIY mode as claimed in claim 1, wherein, said magnetic pad is
provided on the periphery thereof with a plurality of adjustment
holes.
3. An ornamental pendant structure able to make up patterns in a
DIY mode as claimed in claim 1, wherein, said magnetic pad has an
attracting surface in the shape of undulated surface to attract
said picture blocks.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the invention
[0002] The present invention is related to an ornamental pendant
structure able to make up patterns in a DIY mode, and is especially
related to an ornamental pendant structure able to change its
decoration patterns by a user himself.
[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art
[0004] Ornamental pendants are a kind of ornament for wearing, and
are made mostly of metal, rock, plant or shells etc. On the surface
of it is a colorful pattern and a kind of feeling of quality which
people are fond of, it can be used to decorate oneself to make
outstanding of his or her unique graceful bearing. However, a
conventional ornamental pendant only has a single decoration
surface, such ornamental pendant is subjected to losing its value
of newness by influence of time elapsing and originating of other
fashions. Thereby, such ornamental pendant is subjected to being
discarded or laying unused and becomes a kind of article de luxe
lacking of practical value; youths who are limited in economic
capability but fond of making up will accordingly stop being
interested in it. This makes the markets of ornamental pendant
extremely contracted to form a huge trouble in the art of
ornamental pendant.
[0005] Conventional ornamental pendants are made by mass
production, their vending spots are widely distributed; people are
easy to purchase ornamental pendants of the same style at different
locations. However, accompanying with elevating of the level of
knowledge day by day, youths nowadays mostly are eager for showing
themselves, conventional ornamental pendants no longer satisfy
their psychological need in longing for being outstanding among
others; thereby their willing of purchasing or using ornamental
pendent is reduced or ceased. Therefore, the life period of the
ornamental pendants is largely shortened, and the markets of
ornamental pendants are extremely limited, this has been the huge
trouble in the art of ornamental pendants.
[0006] And a conventional ornamental pendant only has a single
fixed decoration surface which is extremely in lack of the function
of changing the decoration surface into one of various decoration
surfaces in pursuance of the mood, fondness etc. of a user, this
has made quite an inconvenience and trouble for users and
manufacturers. Such trouble is exactly the problem which has been
studied to solve by and is the motive of the present invention. The
inventor of the present invention thereby developed the ornamental
pendant structure able to make up patterns in a DIY mode based on
his specific technical experience of development for years in metal
processing.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0007] The primary object of the present invention is to provide an
ornamental pendant structure able to make up patterns in a DIY
mode, a user can originate and make up by himself decoration
surfaces at his will to fulfil effects of decoration, and this can
stimulate his willing of purchasing and elevate practical value of
the ornamental pendant.
[0008] To get the above object, in practice, a magnetic pad is
provided on a pendant, and a plurality of picture blocks are
attracted by the magnetic pad of the pendant to form an ornamental
pendant structure.
[0009] In the structure, the picture blocks are modularized
metallic platelets capable of being attracted by the magnetic pad
and capable of forming a plurality of patterns. The surfaces of the
pendant and the picture blocks can be printed thereon or coated
thereon with metal, rock, plant or sea shells etc. or can be made
by processing of etching, knurling, polishing or forming fogged
surfaces to give the surfaces colorful patterns and a kind of
feeling of good quality. By attracting of the picture blocks by the
magnetic pad, a user can easily move the picture blocks with hands
to change their positions within the scope of the magnetic pad to
form the decoration surfaces of the ornamental pendant structure
with brilliant ornamental effects. This gives the advantage of
changing the patterns of the ornamental pendant in a DIY mode, and
the ornamental pendant structure can allow a user to originate and
change decoration surfaces at his will to manifest his outstanding
style and to elevate practical value of the ornamental pendant.
[0010] The present invention will be apparent after reading the
detailed description of the preferred embodiment thereof in
reference to the accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0011] FIG. 1 is a front view of the present invention;
[0012] FIG. 2 is a front view showing a plurality of picture blocks
of the present invention;
[0013] FIG. 3 is a sectional side view of the present
invention;
[0014] FIG. 3A is a partially enlarged sectional view of the
present invention;
[0015] FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing operation of the present
invention;
[0016] FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing further operation of the
present invention;
[0017] FIG. 6 is a front view of another embodiment of the present
invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0018] Referring to the FIG. 1 firstly, the ornamental pendant
structure able to make up patterns in a DIY mode of the present
invention is comprised primarily of a pendant 1 provided thereon
with a magnetic pad 12, and a plurality of picture blocks 2 are
attracted by the magnetic pad 12 of the pendant 1 to form an
ornamental pendant structure.
[0019] Wherein, the magnetic pad 12 is provided on one side of the
pendant 1 (referring to FIGS. 1, 3), the magnetic pad 12 can be
freely rotated on the pendant 1 (referring to FIG. 4), one end of
the pendant 1 is provided with a hole for connecting with a ring
31. The surface of the pendant 1 can be printed thereon or coated
thereon with metal, rock, plant or sea shells etc. or can be made
by processing of etching, knurling, polishing or forming fogged
surfaces to give the surfaces colorful patterns and a kind of
feeling of good quality.
[0020] The magnetic pad 12 is made of magnetic material, and has an
attracting surface 122 in the shape of undulated surface (referring
to FIG. 3) to attract the picture blocks 2. The magnetic pad 12 is
provided on the periphery thereof with a plurality of adjustment
holes 121 (referring to FIG. 1) which can be inserted therein sharp
rod ends, by moving the rod ends, the adjustment holes 121 can be
moved to allow the magnetic pad 12 to rotate freely on the pendant
1 to a desired position (referring to FIG. 4). In this way, a user
can adjust the angular position of the adjustable magnetic pad
12.
[0021] The picture blocks 2 are modularized metallic platelets
capable of being attracted by the magnetic pad 12 and capable of
forming a plurality of patterns (referring to FIGS. 1, 3). The
front and the rear surfaces of the pendant 1 and the picture blocks
can be printed thereon or coated thereon with metal, rock, plant or
sea shells etc. or can be made by processing of etching, knurling,
polishing or forming fogged surfaces to give the surfaces colorful
patterns and a kind of feeling of good quality. For example, the
picture blocks 2 can be pieced together, or can be made up as a
Chinese tangram (referring to FIG. 2). The picture blocks 2 can be
pieced together into various contours such as figures of people,
fishes and beasts, geometric patterns etc. The picture blocks 2
thus can have the function of originating and making up a plurality
of patterns.
[0022] By attracting of the picture blocks 2 to the attracting
surface 122 of the magnetic pad 12 of the pendant 1 (referring to
FIG. 3A), the picture blocks 2 can form a brilliant decoration
surface (referring to FIG. 1) taking advantage of the colors and
luster as well as the quality of the picture blocks 2 themselves.
Thereby, when the user is to dress up, only the ring 31 connecting
with the hole of the pendant 1 is needed to be attached to a braded
colored thread or a metallic necklace 3 etc. to form an ornamental
pendant structure for hanging at a desired location on the
user.
[0023] When the user wants to change the decoration surface of the
ornamental pendant structure, he can use a sharp angled clamp 4
with two feet 41, 42 by taking advantage of their tips or use
fingers to move the picture blocks 2 easily for changing their
positions (referring to FIG. 1) within the scope of the magnetic
pad 12 of the pendant 1 through the gaps formed among the picture
blocks 2 on the attracting surface 122 of the magnetic pad 12
(referring to FIG. 3); alternatively, he can turn over the picture
blocks 2 to show more various brilliant colorful patterns and good
qualities by means of the decoration surfaces on both sides of the
picture blocks 2. Thereby, a user can originate and make up
decoration surfaces with the picture blocks 2 on the magnetic pad
12 (referring to FIG. 5). This gives the advantage of changing the
patterns of the ornamental pendant 1 in a DIY mode, and the
ornamental pendant structure can allow a user to originate and
change decoration surfaces in pursuance of the mood, fondness or
arrangement of dressing of the user, thereby, practical value and
various brilliant ornamental effects of the ornamental pendent can
be largely elevated.
[0024] Moreover, the ornamental pendant 1 and the magnetic pad 12
can both be in the shape of ellipsoids, polygons, rectangles or
triangles etc.; for example, a pendant 10 can be in the shape of a
pentagon, a magnetic pad 120 can be in the shape of a triangle, so
that the whole ornamental pendant structure can be endued with a
mysterious feeling (referring to FIG. 6) suiting wearing by youths
of extroversion personality in dancing parties. The embodiment of
the ornamental pendant structure thereby has another ornamental
effect and the user can have more selections in use. Any ornamental
pendant having the magnetic pad for attracting a plurality of
picture blocks thereon shall thereby fall within the scope of the
present invention.
[0025] One thing especially worth mentioning, i.e., the cost of
production of the ornamental pendant structure of the present
invention is low, volumes of the pendant, the magnetic pad and the
picture blocks are all small (referring to FIG. 1) and are all
designed under the conception of modulariztion; hence manufacturers
can provide them as various ornamental members in a way of mass
production easily, thereby, the problem of slow selling and storing
up of goods of the conventional ornamental pendants can be solved.
The present invention thus has the industrial characteristic of low
cost, high added value and exquisiteness.
[0026] In conclusion, the ornamental pendant structure able to make
up patterns in a DIY mode with a plurality of picture blocks
attracted by the magnetic pad on the pendant allows a user to
easily move the picture blocks with hands within the scope of the
magnetic pad to form the decoration surfaces of the ornamental
pendant structure with a brilliant ornamental effect. This gives
the advantage of changing the patterns of the ornamental pendant in
a DIY mode, and the ornamental pendant structure can allow the user
to originate and change decoration surfaces in pursuance of his
mood, fondness or arrangement of dressing etc. to manifest his own
outstanding style and to elevate practical value and variant
decoration effects of the ornamental pendant.
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