Hand-held collapsible magnifying lens
OwnerBoris Schwartzinventor
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Abstract
A Hand-held collapsible magnifying lens assembly comprising a plurality of elongated flat magnifying lens segments. Each of the segments is mounted on a common pivot for arcuate rotation. A connecting means is provided for limiting the arcuate rotation of each of the segments. Each of the segments being contoured to provide a more or less continuous viewing area absent overlaping of the segments when the lens assembly is brough to an expanded configuration. This lens assembly may be provided with an aligning means for bringing the segments into a more or less straight alignment.
Claims17
A hand-held collapsible magnifying lens assembly consisting of:
- (a) a plurality of elongated flat magnifying lens segment members, each of said segment members having a first end and a second end;
- (b) a joint means for holding said plurality of the segment members at or near said first end, said joint means for holding said plurality of flat segment members in juxtapost relationship, said plurality of flat segment members being arrayed for arcuate rotation about said joint means and
- (c) a connecting means for sequentially engaging all segment members at a point intermediate said first end and said second end, said connecting means adapted to limit the arcuate rotation of each segment member when unfurled to an expanded condition, said expanded condition providing a substantially continuous lens surface between said connecting means and said second end, said continuous lens for the magnified viewing of objects therethrough. PG,15
A method for making a hand-held collapsible magnifying lens assembly including the following steps of:
- (a) provding a plurality of elongated flat magnifying lens segment members, each of said segment members having a first end, a second end, a first side, and a second side;
- (b) mounting said plurality of said segment members on a pivot means, said pivot means at or near said first end;
- (c) arraying said plurality of said segment members in juxtapost relationship for arcuate rotation;
- (d) engaging each segment member with a connecting means at a point interior of said first end to limit the arcuate rotation of each segment member when unfurled to an expanded configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.