Earpiece-less eyeglasses
OwnerMichael Renee Rodarteinventor
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Abstract
Earpiece-less glasses including an interchangeable left eye frame, an interchangeable right eye frame and a nose piece connecting the left eye frame to the right eye frame. The left eye frame and the right eye frame each provide eye lens pockets configured to hold and snuggly fit a respective first eye lens in the respective pockets. The left eye frame and the right eye frame each provide an opening to the pockets so that the first lenses can be replaced with second lenses. A magnification strength of the first lenses may be different from the magnification strength of the second lenses.
Claims20
Earpiece-less glasses comprising:
- a left eye frame and a right eye frame;
- and
- a nose piece connecting the left eye frame to the right eye frame, wherein
- the left eye frame provides a first left eye lens and a left eye lens pocket configured to hold and snuggly fit a second left eye lens in the left eye lens pocket,
- the right eye frame provides a first right eye lens and a right eye lens pocket configured to hold and snuggly fit a second right eye lens in the right eye lens pocket,
- the left eye lens pocket is configured to snuggly hold the second left eye lens and the right eye lens pocket is configured to snuggly hold the second right eye lens,
- the left eye frame provides a left opening of the left eye lens pocket on an outer left surface of the left eye frame, and
- the right eye frame provides a right opening of the right eye lens pocket on an outer right surface of the right eye frame.
A method of changing an eyeglass lens while a pair of eyeglasses is being worn, the method comprising:
- providing a pair of eyeglasses worn by a wearer, the pair of eyeglasses including two eye unit frames, and the two eye unit frames include a left eye unit frame and a right eye unit frame, the left eye unit frame including a first left eyeglass lens and a second left eyeglass lens, the right eye unit frame including a first right eyeglass lens and a second right eyeglass lens, the second left eyeglass lens being provided within a pocket of the left eye unit frame, and the second right eyeglass lens being provided within a pocket of the right eye unit frame, the second left eyeglass lens including nubs provided on an outer edge surface of the second left eyeglass lens and the second right eyeglass lens including nubs provided on an outer surface of the second right eyeglass lens;
- gripping, using an opposable thumb and finger, at least one of the nubs of the second left eyeglass lens or the nubs of the second right eyeglass lens;
- moving, using the gripped nubs of the second left eyeglass lens or the second right eyeglass lens, the second left eyeglass lens or the second right eyeglass lens in a lateral direction away from a nose area of the pair of eyeglasses worn by a wearer.
A method of assembling earpiece-less glasses comprising:
- providing a first earpiece-less eyeglass frame configured to be used with a human's left eye and providing a second earpiece-less eyeglass frame configured to be used with a human's right eye;
- providing a nose piece having two hollow cylindrical receiving portions;
- connecting the two earpiece-less eyeglass frames to the two hollow cylindrical receiving portions of the nose piece via an attachment means;
- and
- attaching a first left eye lens to the first earpiece-less eyeglass frame to create at least a part of a left eye lens pocket configured to hold and snuggly fit a second left eye lens in the left eye lens pocket and attaching a first right eye lens to the second earpiece-less eyeglass frame to create at least a part of a right eye lens pocket configured to hold and snuggly fit a second right eye lens in the right eye lens pocket,
- wherein the left eye lens pocket includes a left opening on an outer left surface thereof, and
- the right eye lens pocket includes a right opening on an outer right surface thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.