Protective eyewear with metal lenses
AssigneeRawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc.
InventorPaul Gait
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Abstract
Protective eyewear for protecting a wearer's eyes during a sporting event. The protective eyewear comprises a frame and a metal protective section. The frame includes a top support, a pair of armatures, and a grooved opening traversing the top support and each armature. The metal protective section includes a perimeter and a flat extension attached to the perimeter and shape to be removably engaged to the grooved opening in the frame. Additionally, the metal protective section includes a plurality of substantially aligned elongated bars horizontally segmenting the metal protective section. A plurality of cross members is vertically positioned to connect the elongated bars of the metal protective section and protect the eyes of the wearer.
Claims22
Protective eyewear for protecting a wear's eyes during a sporting event, the protective eyewear comprising:
- a frame including a top support, a pair of armatures and a grooved opening traversing the top support and partially traversing each armature;
- a metal protective section including a perimeter and a flat extension attached to the perimeter and shaped to removably engage the grooved opening in the frame.
Protective eyewear for protecting a wear's eyes during a sporting event, the protective eyewear comprising:
- a casing shaped to substantially encompassing the wear's eyes and including a pair of armatures extending from a connection point, each armature having a substantially convex shape, a lobe positioned on the armature opposite the connection point, and a slot
- a metal protective framework including a pair of substantially hemispherical sections centrally attached, each substantially hemispherical section including an attachment element shaped to removably engage the slot.
Protective eyewear for protecting a wear's eyes during a sporting event, the protective eyewear comprising:
- a frame including a top support, a pair of armatures, and an opening substantially traversing each armature, the armatures further including an orifice positioned in the opening and having a depth greater than the opening and a securing depression positioned in the opening opposite the orifice;
- a metal protective section including:
- a perimeter;
- a width;
- a length;
- rows of elongated bars extending the length of the metal protective section;
- a plurality of cross members vertically positioned to connect the rows of elongated bars;
- and
- a flat extension attached to the perimeter and shaped to removably engage the opening in the frame, the flat extension including an angled projection extending from the perimeter and a clasping edge positioned opposite the angled projection;
- wherein the orifice is shaped to accept and to removably secure the angled projection and the securing depression is shaped to accept and to removably secure the clasping edge removably secure the frame to the metal protective section wherein the frame is removable from the metal protective section;
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- wherein the top support and the pair of armatures form a generally convex shape and are shaped to substantially encompass the wear's eyes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.