Jewelry made from small bicycle parts

Abstract

This invention describes an article of manufacture fabricated from new and/or used bike parts broken down into their tiniest components. Disassembled bike parts are separated into groups of similar shapes and are regarded as beads which can be strung, woven and/or wrapped on wire or cord along with embellishments such as semi-precious stones, metal or glass beads, precious metal wire, handmade clasps and also including standard jewelers findings as needed. Some bike parts can be forged to create new shapes that dangle or hang from the main body of the jewelry piece. Some articles of jewelry can be backed with leather or cloth for comfort and protection of the skin.

1 . jewelry, bodily adornments and lingerie made from new and/or used bicycle parts which have been dismantled into their tiniest components, including mimics of such bicycle parts, thus destroying their original function, and can be combined with glass beads, semi-precious stones, metal beads, precious metal wire and/or cord which can be strung, woven and/or wrapped together, intended to be worn on the body for decoration.  
   
   
       2 . use of new or used bike chain that has been disassembled into its tiniest four original parts by pressing the pin out of each link and thus individually utilizing the roller, roller link plate and pin link plate as beads that can then be connected with jump rings, strung, woven and/or wrapped in a piece of jewelry.  
   
   
       3 . the process of forging spokes into spirals and spiral shapes, of consistent or varying lengths, that can be interchanged by unscrewing and rescrewing new shapes in the spoke nipples which are attached to the main body of jewelry.  
   
   
       4 . the items of jewelry as claimed in  claim 1 , which necessary for means of comfort and protection of the skin, are backed with ‘cut to fit’ scraps of various leathers and/or cloth following the contours of the edges of the piece of finished jewelry.