US1774059A - Rosary - Google Patents

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Aug. 26, 1930. J. F, HENNEGAN ROSARY Filed May 7, 1929 INVENTOR BY JgssPH HEHNBGQH ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 26, 1930 UNITED STATES JOSEPH F. HENNEGAN,

OF CINCINNATI, OHIO ROSARY Application filed May 7, 1929. Serial No. 361,097.

The invention relates to a rosary utilized for marking off prayers.

The objects of the invention are to provide a simple, efficient, and practical rosary, which may be conveniently carried in the pocket of the owner; and to provide a rosary, in combination with a heartshaped plate having a crucifix thereon.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the various parts and elements, and in the details of the construction, as set forth and claimed.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on a line corresponding to 3-3 in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a section taken on a line corresponding to 44 in Fig. 1.

In the preferred construction of the invention, I provide the heart-shaped plate 1 hav ing integrally formed with its sides 2 and 3, the outer row 4 of spaced apart semi-spheres,

5 projections or beads 5 and 6 arranged in heart-shaped formation in close proximity to the edge 7 of the plate.

Inwardly of the semi-spheres 5 and 6 and spaced apart therefrom is the row 6 of the semi-spheres 8 and 9 also, arranged in heart shaped formation. Integral with the sides 2 and 3 of the plate 1 are the Crucifixes 10, spectively, disposed centrally of the sides of the plate 1, and inside the semi-spheres 8 s5 and 9.

Each crucifix 10 comprises the usual cross 11, integral with the plate 1, having aflixed thereto the form 12 of Jesus.

Integrally formed with the ends 13, 14, 15,

and 16 of the cross 11, are the large head 17,

and the small beads 18, 19, and 20, which ordinarily comprise a part of the usual r0- sary.

An advantage of the invention is that the user may conveniently carry the invention while marking off his prayers by means of the heads 5, 6, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, and 20, thus eliminating the usual inconvenience associated with a rosary consisting of beads strung on a string which is apt to break.

Another advantage of the invention is that the form of the plate being heart-shape, and the rows 4 and 6 of the beads, being arranged in heart formation, closely associates the invention with religious societies and ideals.

It is therefore, quite apparent that I have invented a highly desirable device for the religious purposes intended. I have chosen to illustrate the form and construction of the invention by the herein drawings and explanations of the same. Yet, I desire to emphasize that it is my intention that the invention resides in the combination, arrangement of the parts and in the details of the construction as claimed. In other words, itis understood that changes and modifications in the embodiment of the invention such as its size, the materials used, and the like, as disclosed herein, can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention, as other expedients may readily suggest themselves to persons familiar in the art to which the invention appertains.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An article of manufacture comprising a heart-shaped plate, a crucifix integral therewith, an inner and an outer row of projections on said plate representing a rosary, the outer row of said projections being in heartshaped formation and spaced from the edge of said plate, the inner row of said projections being in heart-shaped formation and spaced from said outer row of projections and surrounding said crucifix.

2. An article of manufacture, comprising a plate, a rosary integrally formed with said plate and arranged in heart-shaped formation, and a crucifix integral with said plate and centrally disposed in the side of said plate.

3. An article of manufacture, comprising a plate, a rosary integrally formed with said plate, said rosary comprising a pair of spaced apart rows of projections, and a crucifix integral with said plate and centrally disposed in the side of said plate.

4. An article of manufacture, comprising heart-shaped means, a rosary integrally formed with said means and arranged in heart-shaped formation, and a crucifix integral with said means and being surrounded by said rosary.

5. In a device of the class described, a heart-shaped plate, a plurality of spaced apart semi-spheres arranged in heart-shaped formation in the side of said plate and in close proximity to the edge of said plate and integral therewith, a plurality of spaced apart semi-spheres arranged in heart-shape formation in the side of said plate and in spaced apart relation to said first mentioned semi-spheres and positioned inwardly therefrom, and a crucifix integral with said plate and centrally disposed in the side of said plate.

6. In a device of the class described, a heart-shaped plate, a plurality of spaced apart projections arranged in heart-shape formation in the side of said plate in close proximity to the edge of said plate and integral therewith, a plurality of spaced apart projections arranged in heart-shape formation in the side of said plate and in spaced apart relation to said first mentioned projections and positioned inwardly therefrom, and a crucifix integral with said plate and centrally disposed in said second mentioned heart-shape formation of said projections.

In a device of the class described, a plate, a plurality of projections in the side of said plate in close proximity to the edge thereof and spaced therefrom, a plurality of spaced apart projections integral with the side of said plate and in spaced apart relation to said first mentioned projections and positioned inwardly therefrom, and a crucifix integral with the side of said plate.

8. In a device of the class described, a heart-shaped plate, a plurality of equi-distant spaced apart semi-spheres arranged in heartshape formation in the side of said plate and in close proximity to the edge of said plate, a plurality of eqni-distant spaced apart semispheres arranged in heart-shape formation in the side of said plate and in spaced apart relation to said first mentioned semi-spheres and positioned inwardly therefrom, and a crucifix integral with said plate and centrally disposed in said second mentioned heartshape formation of said semi-spheres.

JOSEPH F. HENNEGAN.

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