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US 5,628,092 AGranted
Eyewear retainer
OwnerTina Harris, Lisa Quoninventors
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The invention provides an improved eyewear retainer in which a strap that is attached to the earpieces of the eyewear and looped around the head of a human wearer to retain the eyewear snugly and securely in place on the wearer's head. The strap includes at least one hinge, a region of the strap having increased flexibility in comparison with a region adjacent to the hinge. In preferred embodiments, the hinge is formed by pulling an end of the strap through an aperture through the strap's material. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the strap comprises two strap segments, each of which includes a hinge formed by passing an end of the strap segment through a separate aperture in the material of the strap segment. Each of the strap segments is provided with an attachment for securing the strap segment to an earpiece of the eyewear. The two strap segments are held together by a fastener, which may be formed of a hook and loop material. The strap may be formed of a material having two sides, each of which is provided with a different color or pattern so that a striking and distinctive visual appearance is provided thereby.
An improved eyewear retainer of the type including a strap for affixation to the eyewear, the strap adapted to retain the eyewear in place on a wearer's head and having first and second ends, wherein the improvement comprises at least one hinge between the first and second ends of the strap, said hinge comprising a region of the strap in which one end of the strap passes through an aperture defined in the strap between its first and second ends.
An eyewear retainer comprising:
A method for making an eyewear retainer, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.