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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
David B Todd, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A44C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428-7 ; 428 13 ; 428 28 ; 428 64 ; 4285395 ; 4285422 ; 40 275 ;
Abstract
An art form where earth in powdered form from specific locations--earth from a country, states, counties, a person's yard or other locations with sample records maintained is, after being heat sterilized sized to designate size range limits, and then embedded within plastic and formed to the desired shape. The shape may be a micro-dot insertable in commemorative coins or utilized in jewelry of all sizes and shapes or molded into a whole range of jewelry shapes and sizes. The plastic may be a thermo softening and setting plastic, a chemical reactive setting plastic or even a thermo setting resin such as an epoxy resin into which some of the desired powdered earth is entrained.