US 4,877,320 A · Eye-shielding glasses

Abstract

Eye-shielding glasses contoured to fit and completely cover the human eye area with a one-piece curved lens section is provided with hinge-attached, removable temples. The lens section has a widened overhanging top rim and a narrowed bottom rim formed centrally into an upwardly curved nose rest. The removable temples are pin-hinged inside of side shield hinge housings at both shorter ends of the one-piece lens section. At the hinge end, the temples widen into eye area protecting webbed sides. Both the web sections and the temples are removable and style changes can be accomplished by changing the web sections or the temples. To prevent fogging, vent slits are opened in the web sections partly covered by debris deflectors. In special sports glasses, the top rim is vented in debris deflecting projections and float attachments are provided by snap-in replacement web members and by a top-fitting snap-on tube section. The eye-shielding glasses are foldable for storage and a special nose piece is provided to achieve a more comfortable fitting for various sized human nose shapes.

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Dependent claims

In eye-shielding glasses of a type having a pair of transparent lenses formed in a one-piece curved lens section narrowed centrally by a bridge opening and retained to a human face by ear hooking temples, improved glasses comprising:

circuitous framing edgewise along said lens section being a molded continuation thereof interfacing a concave surface side of said lens section, said framing being a wide horizontal strip along the upper edge of said lens section ending longitudinally flanged upwardly into a short vertical lip, said framing being a narrow horizontal strip along the lower edge of said lens section widened into a frame for a nose rest along a semicircular bridge, said framing forming transversely along both shorter ends of said lens section into side shielding hinge housing having temple attachment apertures upwardly downwardly inside said side shielding hinge housing;
two temples each having ear hooks at distal ends thereof and oppositely widened into framed air vent web sections adjacent insert end members affixed with upwardly and downwardly positioned hinging attachment pins, said temples attaching inside said side shielding hinge housing and being and being snap-in and removable for replacement by various temples having a variety of designs in said framed air vent web section.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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