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US 6,520,635 B1Granted
Ornamental eyewear
OwnerPatricia M. Ignatowskiinventor
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Abstract
Ornamental eyewear includes a jewelry article adapted for attachment as an extension of the temple arm on conventional eyeglasses. The jewelry extension grips the temple arm with a quick-release spring-biased clamp and in turn supports one or more elongated strands of jewelry-type decorations such as beads, charms and other adornment. A decorative boss abuts one side of the spring loaded clamp and extends beyond the jaws of the clamp to hide and provide visual balance to the attachment point.
Claims6
Ornamental eyewear, comprising:
- an eyeglass frame having a pair of temple arms;
- at least one article of jewelry adapted for attachment to the eyeglass frame, each article of jewelry including:
- a single gripping member which includes a spring-biased clamp having jaws that may open against a spring force to receive one of the pair of temple arms and thereby attach the article of jewelry to the temple arm;
- a decorative escutcheon attached to a side of the gripping member to overlie the spring-biased clamp adjacent to the outside of the temple arm when the gripping member is attached to the temple arm;
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- at least one elongated decorative strand having a first end coupled to the gripping member and a second end which is free-hanging under gravity and devoid of a gripping member;
- wherein the gripping member and elongated decorative strand form a unitary jewelry article which is removably attachable onto said single temple arm so as to depend therefrom as a single-sided extension of the eyeglass frame.
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Ornamental eyewear, comprising:
- an eyeglass frame having a pair of temple arms;
- at least one article of jewelry adapted for attachment to the eyeglass frame, each article of jewelry including:
- a single spring-biased clamp having jaws that may open against a spring force to receive one of the pair of temple arms and thereby attach the article of jewelry to the temple arm;
- at least one elongated decorative strand having a first end coupled to the spring-biased clamp and a second end which is free-hanging under gravity and devoid of a spring-biased clamp;
- wherein the spring-biased clamp and elongated decorative strand form a unitary jewelry article which is removably attachable onto said single temple arm so as to depend therefrom as a single-sided extension of the eyeglass frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.