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Quick-change watchbands

a watchband and quick-change technology, applied in the field of watchbands, can solve the problems of many prior art watchbands that are limited to attachment, difficult to replace prior art watchbands, cumbersome techniques, etc., and achieve the effects of convenient removal and replacement, convenient and cost-effective, and quick and easy installation

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-11-08
BAUER TONYA DAREE
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[0004] It would be advantageous and cost effective to provide watchbands, in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention, that may be quickly and easily installed by the wearer himself or herself on a watch of the wearer's choice and that may just as easily be removed and replaced with another watchband to provide color and style coordination with other items of the wearer's chosen wardrobe. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

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Prior art watchbands are difficult to replace in that doing so typically requires a trained technician for removal and reinstallation of a watchcasing pin on each side of a watchcasing.
This technique is cumbersome for those who wish to utilize the various designer watchbands that are available today in order to coordinate them with other wardrobe items and who may, therefore, need to change watchbands on at least a daily basis.
In addition, many prior art watchbands are limited to attachment to certain watches.

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[0009] Referring now to FIG. 2, there is shown the present invention in which a one-piece watchband 40 is threaded behind watchcasing pins 12, 14 and behind watchcasing 10. A pair of security devices 42, 44, provided on watchband 40 on either side of watchcasing 10 serve to hold watchband 40 in a desired position and prevent it from moving with respect to watchcasing 10. The free ends of watchband 40 may be terminated in any of a number of conventional fasteners, not illustrated, to secure watchband 40 and watchcasing 10 to the wearer's wrist.

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[0010] Referring now to FIG. 3, there is shown the present invention in which pieces 32, 34 of a two-piece watchband are provided with hinged clip members 36, 38, respectively, on ends thereof that are to be attached to watchcasing 10. Clip members 36, 38 are positioned behind watchcasing pins 12, 14, respectively, and then secured to watchband pieces 32, 34 by means of bands 52, 54 that are adapted to slide along watchband pieces 32, 34, respectively. The free ends of the watchband pieces 32, 34 may be terminated, like the two-piece watchband of FIG. 1 and the one-piece watchband of FIG. 1, in any one of a number of conventional fasteners to secure watchcasing 10 to the wearer's wrist.

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Abstract

One-piece and two-piece watchbands may be quickly and easily installed on a watch of the wearer's choice and may just as easily be removed and replaced with another watchband to provide color and style coordination with other items of the wearer's chosen wardrobe.

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REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application incorporates the subject matter and claims the benefit of pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 190,257 filed Jul. 26, 2005, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 008,896 filed Nov. 2, 2001, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,921,006, and U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. Nos. 60 / 254,988 and 60 / 254,993, both filed on Dec. 12, 2000, and 60 / 256,615, filed on Dec. 19, 2000.BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0002] This invention relates generally to watchbands and, more particularly, to a watchband that may be easily installed or removed from a watchcase without removing the watchcasing pins. [0003] Prior art watchbands are difficult to replace in that doing so typically requires a trained technician for removal and reinstallation of a watchcasing pin on each side of a watchcasing. This technique is cumbersome for those who wish to utilize the various designer watchbands that are available today in order to coordinate...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A44C5/14
CPCA44C5/14Y10T24/4782A44C5/16
Inventor BAUER, TONYA DAREE
Owner BAUER TONYA DAREE
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