Eyeglass-holder necklace assembly

A necklace assembly for holding a pair of eyeglasses, the necklace assembly comprising:

• (a) an elongated flexible necklace chain for wearing about the neck of a wearer, the necklace chain having a first terminal link and a second terminal link;
• (b) an eyeglass-holder assembly connected between the first and second terminal links of the necklace chain, the eyeglass-holder assembly including:
• (b.1) an eyeglass-holder ring, the eyeglass-holder ring defining a temple-piece-receiver ring opening dimensioned to receive a temple piece of a pair of eyeglasses;
• (b.2) a first and second swivel linker, each swivel linker having a necklace-side connector ring and a holder-ring-side connector ring, the necklace-side connector ring and the holder-ring-side connector ring being rotatably joined together for full rotation about a swivel axis, the holder-ring-side connector ring of the first and the second swivel linker being pivotally connected to the eyeglass-holder ring at locations spaced apart from one another azimuthally by an angle in the range of from 55.degree. to 125.degree. of arc about the ring, a pivot axis being defined with respect to the holder-ring-side connector ring of each swivel linker as an axis about which the swivel linker and the eyeglass-holder ring can pivot relative to one another, the pivot axis associated with each of the swivel linkers lying at least approximately in a plane defined by the eyeglass-holder ring, the swivel axis associated with each swivel linker extending generally perpendicular to the pivot axis associated with the swivel linker, the first terminal link of the necklace chain being interlinked with the necklace-side connector ring of the first swivel linker;
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• (c) a spring-loaded releasable clasp connecting the second terminal link of the necklace chain with the necklace-side connector ring of the second swivel linker of the eyeglass-holder assembly, so that in use the necklace assembly may be worn about the neck of a wearer with a pair of eyeglasses in a folded-closed configuration removably pendulously held in the eyeglass-holder ring of the eyeglass-holder assembly with a temple piece extending downwardly from one side of the temple-piece-receiver ring opening and a lens frame of the eyeglasses extending downwardly from an opposite side of the ring opening and with twisting induced in the necklace chain by movement of the wearer tending to be relieved by rotation of the swivel linkers.