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US 7,118,210 B2Granted
Eye covers
OwnerLuke E. Landersinventor
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Abstract
An eye cover for use as sunglasses, eye shields, eye glasses or other eye wear, is formed of an elongated and flexible sheet of transparent plastic material adapted to extend horizontally over both eyes and temples of a wearer, to a location forward of the ears of the wearer. The sheet has a central nose engaging area, a pair of viewing areas on opposite sides of the nose engaging area and a pair of temple engaging areas each extending from one of the viewing areas. Each of the temple areas have inner surfaces and are bent for use into an arcuate position with the inner surfaces engaging the temples of a wearer. A bend retaining mechanism, such as wires connected to the perimeter of the sheet, form and resiliently maintain the arcuate position of each of temple area.
Claims23
An eye cover comprising:
- an elongated and flexible sheet of material adapted to extend horizontally over both eyes and temples of a wearer, to a location forward of the ears of the wearer, the sheet having a central nose engaging area, a pair of viewing areas on opposite sides of the nose engaging area, and a pair of temple engaging areas each extending from one of the viewing areas, at least the viewing areas being transparent, each of the temple engaging areas having inner planar surfaces and being bent for use by the wearer, into an arcuate position with the inner flat surfaces adjacent the temples of the wearer at a location forward of the ears of the wearer, each temple engaging area having a substantially flat storage position lying in a common plane with the nose engaging area and viewing areas of the sheet;
- and bend retaining means located at least at part of a perimeter of the temple engaging areas for being bent to form, and resiliently maintain the arcuate position of each of the temple engaging areas, and for being bent to form and maintain the storage position of each temple engaging area.
An eye cover comprising:
- an elongated and flexible sheet of material adapted to extend horizontally over both eyes and temples of a wearer, to a location forward of the ears of the wearer, the sheet having a central nose engaging area, a pair of viewing areas on opposite sides of the nose engaging area, and a pair of temple engaging areas each extending from one of the viewing areas, at least the viewing areas being transparent, the flexible sheet of material being bent for use by the wearer, into an arcuate position with the temple engaging areas over temples of the wearer, at a location forward of the ears of the wearer;
- and a bendable wire engaged to the flexible sheet of material and extending across the pair of viewing areas, the nose engaging area and the pair of temple engaging areas, near an upper edge of the flexible sheet of material for being bent to form, and to resiliently maintain, the arcuate position, and for being bent to form and maintain a storage position of the flexible sheet of material which is flatter than the arcuate position.
An eye cover comprising:
- an elongated and flexible sheet of material adapted to extend horizontally over both eyes and temples of a wearer, to a location forward of the ears of the wearer, the sheet having a central nose engaging area, a pair of viewing areas on opposite sides of the nose engaging area, and a pair of temple engaging areas each extending from one of the viewing areas, at least the viewing areas being transparent, the flexible sheet of material being bent for use by the wearer, into an arcuate position with the temple engaging areas over temples of the wearer, at a location forward of the ears of the wearer;
- and a bendable wire engaged to the flexible sheet of material and extending across the pair of viewing areas, the nose engaging area and the pair of temple engaging areas, near an upper edge of the flexible sheet of material for being bent to form, and to resiliently maintain, the arcuate position, and for being bent to form and maintain a storage position of the flexible sheet of material which is flatter than the arcuate position, the flexible sheet of material including a plurality of apertures and the bendable wire being engaged to the flexible sheet of material by being woven through the apertures, the wire having a flat ribbon shape and a flexible tube covering the wire, the flexible sheet of material including a pair of apertures at an upper portion of the nose engaging area, and an aperture near the outer end of each temple engaging area, the bendable wire being engaged to the flexible sheet of material by being woven through the apertures with opposite ends of the wire being bent from an inner to and outer surface of each temple engaging area, around a respective end of each temple engaging area and into an aperture at the end of the respective temple engaging area with a clearance between an inside of the wire bend and the end of each temple engaging are for allowing the wire to slide with respect to the flexible sheet of material when the flexible sheet of material is moved between the arcuate and storage positions.
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