US 5,685,022 AGranted

Renewable eye protective goggle assembly

OwnerDavid W. Essman, Jerry L. Wintersinventors

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A goggle assembly is disclosed having a stacked array of disposable sheet members releasably held in position thereon by a plurality of flexible clamping members. Each of the clamping members is formed of a section of split rubber tubing secured to a lens support frame of the goggle. Each disposable sheet member has a manually engageable tab on one end thereof and an aperture formed in the other end. The aperture fits over a plastic hinge strap member held in position on a metal ventilator disc provided on one side of the goggle assembly.

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An eye protective apparatus comprising:

a goggle type lens support frame mountable on the head of a user for positioning a user view area forwardly of the user's eyes;
a stacked array of substantially transparent, flexible and unbonded and disposable sheet members in the user view area through which the user can have substantially unimpeded vision, said stacked array of substantially transparent sheet members having first and second side edge portions and including a rearmost transparent sheet member facing and closest to the user's eyes and a forwardmost transparent sheet member positioned forwardly of the rearmost transparent sheet member with all of the sheets of said stacked array having upper and lower edges and right and left side edges;
clamping means mounted on said support frame for engaging said forwardmost sheet member and urging the forwardmost sheet member rearwardly to urge the rearmost sheet member toward the lens support frame for removably holding said stacked array of substantially transparent sheets in position in the user view area;
manually engageable tab means on one of said side edges of the sheets of said stacked array of said substantially transparent sheets positioned to be engageable by a hand of the user for forward movement resultant in said forwardmost sheet being pulled from and disengaged from said clamping means and removed from the user's view area to expose the next sheet immediately to the rear of the removed sheet so that the next sheet then becomes the forwardmost sheet;
said clamping means comprising hose sector means having at least one lengthwise extending transparent sheet engaging edge comprising a clamp edge engaged with said forwardmost sheet for urging said forwardmost sheet rearwardly;
said hose sector means being made of a rubber-like material and including a second lengthwise extending edge secured to said lens support frame;
said hose sector means comprising upper hose sector means mounted on an upper horizontal user brow facing frame component positioned above the user view area and lower hose sector means mounted on lower transverse frame component means of said lens support frame positioned below the user's view area;
said lower hose sector means comprising right lower hose sector means and left lower hose sector means respectively mounted to the right and to the left of a nose bridge component of said lower transverse frame component;
each of said hose sector means comprising a lengthwise extending generally arcuate sector in cross-section bounded on one side by said second lengthwise extending edge fixedly attached to said lens support frame and said clamp edge that clampingly engages the front surface of said forwardmost sheet member;
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a generally vertical hinge connection between said first side edge portion of each of said transparent sheets of said stacked array and said first side portion of said lens support frame adjacent thereto so that said removed sheet can pivot about a generally vertical axis to assume a rearwardly trailing retained position relative to said hinge connection in response to windflow in a rearward direction relative to the user.

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An eye protective apparatus comprising:

a goggle type lens support frame mountable on the head of a user for positioning a user view area forwardly of the user's eyes;
a stacked array of substantially transparent, flexible and unbonded and disposable sheet members in the user view area through which the user can have substantially unimpeded vision, said stacked array of substantially transparent sheet members having first and second side edge portions and including a rearmost transparent sheet member facing and closest to the user's eyes and a forwardmost transparent sheet member positioned forwardly of the rearmost transparent sheet member with all of the sheets of said stacked array having upper and lower edges and right and left side edges;
clamping means mounted on said support frame for engaging said forwardmost sheet member and urging the forwardmost sheet member rearwardly to urge the rearmost sheet member toward the lens support frame for removably holding said stacked array of substantially transparent sheets in position in the user view area;
manually engageable tab means on one of said side edges of the sheets of said stacked array of said substantially transparent sheets positioned to be engageable by a hand of the user for forward movement resultant in said forwardmost sheet being pulled from and disengaged from said clamping means and removed from the user's view area to expose the next sheet immediately to the rear of the removed sheet so that the next sheet then becomes the forwardmost sheet;
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a permanently mounted plastic lens body mounted on said lens support frame rearwardly of and adjacent said rearmost sheet and having a generally transverse view portion forwardly of and aligned with and facing the user's eyes and rearwardly trailing temple facing portions at least one of which has an apertured ventilation disk mounted therein.

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An eye protective apparatus comprising:

a goggle type lens support frame mountable on the head of a user for positioning a user view area forwardly of the user's eyes;
a stacked array of substantially transparent, flexible and unbonded and disposable sheet members in the user view area through which the user can have substantially unimpeded vision, said stacked array of substantially transparent sheet members having first and second side edge portions and including a rearmost transparent sheet member facing and closest to the user's eyes and a forwardmost transparent sheet member positioned forwardly of the rearmost transparent sheet member with all of the sheets of said stacked array having upper and lower edges and right and left side edges;
clamping means mounted on said support frame for engaging said forwardmost sheet member and urging the forwardmost sheet member rearwardly to urge the rearmost sheet member toward the lens support frame for removably holding said stacked array of substantially transparent sheets in position in the user view area;
manually engageable tab means on one of said side edges of the sheets of said stacked array of said substantially transparent sheets positioned to be engageable by a hand of the user for forward movement resultant in said forwardmost sheet being pulled from and disengaged from said clamping means and removed from the user's view area to expose the next sheet immediately to the rear of the removed sheet so that the next sheet then becomes the forwardmost sheet;
at least one intermediate transparent sheet being positioned between said rearmost sheet member and said forwardmost transparent sheet;
said clamping means comprising hose sector means;
said hose sector means being made of rubber-like material;
said hose sector means comprising upper hose sector means mounted on an upper horizontal user brow facing frame component of said lens support frame positioned above the user view area and lower hose sector means mounted on lower transverse frame component means of said lens support frame positioned below the user's view area;
said lower hose sector means comprising right hose sector means and left hose sector means respectively mounted to the right and to the left of a nose bridge component of said lower transverse frame component of said lens support frame;
each of said hose sector means comprising a lengthwise extending generally arcuate sector in cross-section bounded on one side by an attachment edge fixedly attached to its supporting frame component and a movable clamp edge that clampingly engages the front surface of said forwardmost sheet member;
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a generally vertical hinge connection between the other side edge of each of said transparent sheets of said stacked array and a side portion of said lens support frame adjacent said other side edge so that said removed sheet can pivot about a generally vertical axis to assure a rearwardly trailing position relative to said hinge connection in response to windflow in a rearward direction relative to the user.

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Abstract

An eye protective apparatus comprising:

a goggle type lens support frame mountable on the head of a user for positioning a user view area forwardly of the user's eyes;
a stacked array of substantially transparent, flexible and unbonded and disposable sheet members in the user view area through which the user can have substantially unimpeded vision, said stacked array of substantially transparent sheet members having first and second side edge portions and including a rearmost transparent sheet member facing and closest to the user's eyes and a forwardmost transparent sheet member positioned forwardly of the rearmost transparent sheet member with all of the sheets of said stacked array having upper and lower edges and right and left side edges;
clamping means mounted on said support frame for engaging said forwardmost sheet member and urging the forwardmost sheet member rearwardly to urge the rearmost sheet member toward the lens support frame for removably holding said stacked array of substantially transparent sheets in position in the user view area;
manually engageable tab means on one of said side edges of the sheets of said stacked array of said substantially transparent sheets positioned to be engageable by a hand of the user for forward movement resultant in said forwardmost sheet being pulled from and disengaged from said clamping means and removed from the user's view area to expose the next sheet immediately to the rear of the removed sheet so that the next sheet then becomes the forwardmost sheet;
said clamping means comprising hose sector means having at least one lengthwise extending transparent sheet engaging edge comprising a clamp edge engaged with said forwardmost sheet for urging said forwardmost sheet rearwardly;
said hose sector means being made of a rubber-like material and including a second lengthwise extending edge secured to said lens support frame;
said hose sector means comprising upper hose sector means mounted on an upper horizontal user brow facing frame component positioned above the user view area and lower hose sector means mounted on lower transverse frame component means of said lens support frame positioned below the user's view area;
said lower hose sector means comprising right lower hose sector means and left lower hose sector means respectively mounted to the right and to the left of a nose bridge component of said lower transverse frame component;
each of said hose sector means comprising a lengthwise extending generally arcuate sector in cross-section bounded on one side by said second lengthwise extending edge fixedly attached to said lens support frame and said clamp edge that clampingly engages the front surface of said forwardmost sheet member;
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a generally vertical hinge connection between said first side edge portion of each of said transparent sheets of said stacked array and said first side portion of said lens support frame adjacent thereto so that said removed sheet can pivot about a generally vertical axis to assume a rearwardly trailing retained position relative to said hinge connection in response to windflow in a rearward direction relative to the user.

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