Adjustable frame for ornament

Claim 1

An article of jewelry comprising a resilient unitary curved frame piece which defines a ring interrupted at a narrow gap area and resiliently tends to radially open out the ring against pressures tending to narrow the gap area, means on said frame for the retention therein of an ornamental element, said frame having disconnected ends between which said gap area is defined and being knurled on its radially outer surface, a connecting member secured to one end of said frame and receiving the other frame end therein, said connecting member having radially inwardly extending flanges on opposite sides thereof disposed along a substantial portion of the length of said element opposite said gap area, said member being knurled on at least a part of its radially inner surface in registration with said other frame end, said frame resilience being active to urge the radially inner surface of said member into engagement with the outer surface of that portion of said other frame end received within said member, whereby the knurlings of said member and said frame end interengage, whereby said interengagement secures said other frame end within said member, adapting said frame to retain said ornamental element therewithin, the knurled surfaces of said connecting member and said frame being capable of meshing at a plurality of positions, thereby to adapt said frame to secure a plurality of sizes of ornamental element therewithin, the length of said gap area varying with differenT size elements but being hidden by said flanges.