Openable ring with safety snap lock element

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EP 0 375 565 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	31.10.1990 Bulletin 1990/44

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	27.06.1990 Bulletin 1990/26

(21)	Application number: 89403643.3

(22)	Date of filing: 22.12.1989

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁵: A44C 9/02

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH DE ES FR GB GR IT LI LU NL SE

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Priority:

23.12.1988 GB 8830050
20.11.1989 US 438239

(71)	Applicants:
	Creates, Allan B. Montreal Quebec H4V 2M9 (CA) Breque, Jean F-78730 St-Arnoult-en-Yvelines (FR)

(72)	Inventor:
	Creates, Allan B. Montreal Quebec H4V 2M9 (CA)

(74)	Representative: Clanet, Denis et al
	Cabinet Beau de Loménie 55, rue d'Amsterdam 75008 Paris 75008 Paris (FR)

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(54)	Openable ring with safety snap lock element

(57) A finger ring (10) made of two arcuate segments (12,14) hinged together at one end (16,20) of the segments are adapted to be locked with a clasp (32) at the other end (18,22). The clasp (32) is hingedly mounted on one segment and adapted to hook onto a transversal rod (44) fixed on the other segment. A circumferential leaf spring (62) fixed on the one segment adjacent the clasp (32), resiliently maintains the clasp (32) in a position projecting at the free end of the one segment. Another similar leaf spring (78) is positioned at the hinged end of the segments for resiliently maintaining the latter in a substantially circular relationship and firms up the action to snap open and snap shut the segments.

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