Comfort grip ring

Abstract

A ring with a shank and two or more sizing features. The shank defines an aperture for receiving a digit, such as a finger. The sizing features extend from the shank into the ring's aperture. The sizing features may be generally arcuate raised surfaces, humps, or bumps. The sizing features prevent a ring from undesirably turning, provide air spaces between a digit and the ring, and / or accommodate finger size fluctuations. The sizing features are spaced either equally or unequally around the ring's aperture. The sizing features may have widths that approximately match the shank's width, or widths less than the shank's width. Rings with the sizing features may be resized by polishing or grinding down the sizing features.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e) of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 748,310, filed Dec. 6, 2005 and entitled “Comfort Grip Ring”, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE [0002] This application is related to U.S. Design Application No. 29 / 244,306, entitled “Shank for Ring,” and filed on Dec. 6, 2005, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.FIELD OF INVENTION [0003] The present invention generally relates to jewelry, and more particularly to rings. BACKGROUND [0004] Standard ring shapes and sizes often do not properly fit all ring wearers because each person has a unique finger and knuckle shape and size. An improperly or non-optimally fitted ring may cause discomfort to the wearer, result in undesirable turning of the ring around the wearer's finger, or make it difficult to put on and take off the ring. Also, the size of a perso...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0011] Yet another embodiment of the present invention takes the form of a method for resizing a ring. The method includes providing a ring having a shank and a sizing feature extending a distance into a digit aperture defined by a first surface of the shank. The method further includes reducing the distance the sizing feature extends into the digit aperture.

Problems solved by technology

Standard ring shapes and sizes often do not properly fit all ring wearers because each person has a unique finger and knuckle shape and size.

An improperly or non-optimally fitted ring may cause discomfort to the wearer, result in undesirable turning of the ring around the wearer's finger, or make it difficult to put on and take off the ring.

Also, the size of a person's knuckle and finger varies and fluctuates over time resulting in potential fitting problems even for wearers who do not initially have fitting problems.

Resizing temporarily solves the fitting issue but does not address future fluctuations in finger size, thus resulting in constant resizing of the ring.

Resizing also does not address finger and knuckle size fluctuations that may occur over relatively short-time periods.

Also, the spring wears out or breaks over time.

Such a solution allows the ring to be placed on and removed from the finger but generally does not address the problems of undesirable ring turning and discomfort from finger size fluctuations.

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