US 2011/0296575 A1 · Sunglasses with flip-up visor

Abstract

A flip-up visor attachment having two separable sets of hinge elements for rotatably connecting the visor to a sunglasses' frame. These sets include a hinge body and a pair of hook-like structures which are, respectively, affixed to the frame's bridge portion and to the visor's underside. Like the frame, both sets exhibit bilateral symmetry. Once they are joined together, the visor can be pivoted outwardly from the frame's front. A flange, affixed to the visor's mid-section and extending over its back edge, stops the visor from being overrotated. With the visor in its raised position, one can then brace it there by pressing a locking arm rotatably connected to its underside against the hinge body. By rotating the locking arm in reverse, one can disengage it from the hinge body and thus free the visor so that it can be folded against the sunglasses or removed therefrom.

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Dependent claims

In combination with a visor and a pair of eyeglasses in which the eyeglasses frame a pair of spaced apart lenses, the eyeglasses having a bridge portion which forms a span between the lenses, the span generally increasing in length towards the bridge portion's upper edge, and wherein the visor, which is generally bilaterally symmetrical, defines a mid-section with a back edge, the improvement which comprises:

(a) means, including a hinge with a pivot axis which is disposed proximate with the bridge portion's upper edge, for rotatably connecting the visor to the eyeglasses frame, the hinge having separable first and second sets of hinge elements, the hinge elements of the first set being affixed to to the visor's mid-section;
(b) a bridge piece affixed to the eyeglasses bridge portion, the hinge elements of the second set being mounted on the bridge piece;
and
(c) wherein the hinge elements of the first and second sets, in assembled relation, are interconnected in such away that the visor can be rotated downwardly about the pivot axis.

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An eyeglasses with flip-up visor, which comprises:

(a) eyeglasses having a bridge portion with an upper edge;
(b) a bridge piece permanently attached to the bridge portion;
(c) a visor which generally exhibits bilateral symmetry and defines a mid-section with a back edge;
(d) a hinge with a pivot axis which is disposed proximate with the bridge portion's upper edge, the hinge having separable first and second sets of hinge elements, the hinge elements of the first set being mounted on the ° underside of visor's mid-section, and the hinge elements of the second set being mounted on the bridge piece;
the hinge elements of the first and second sets, in assembled relation, being interconnected in such a way that the visor can be rotated downwardly about the pivot axis;
(e) means, including a flange affixed to the visor, for limiting the visor's upward rotation about the pivot axis;
and
(f) a locking arm which is rotatably connected to the visor's mid-section, the locking arm, when engaged, bracing the visor's mid-section against the bridge piece and perpendicularly thereto.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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