Patents by Inventor Delma M. Cointment

Delma M. Cointment has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Device for removing and replacing soft contact lenses worn on the human eye
    Patent number: 4332408
    Abstract: Squeezed, the flexible cup of the device forms two convex lips which grip a soft contact lens in place on a human eye, deforms the lens, breaking its fluid suction-bond to the eye, allowing easy and gentle removal of the lens from the eye, without fingers touching the eye. The body of the device has a dished end with an elevated rim, an annular lumen and a depressed central segment, which end safely holds soft contact lenses by the variable suction of a flexible bulb, controllable by sliding the other end of the body into the lumen of the bulb. The lens is released by squeezing the bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Inventor: Delma M. Cointment
  • Device for removing and replacing soft contact lenses worn on the human eye
    Patent number: 4238134
    Abstract: Squeezed, the flexible cup of the device forms two convex lips which grip a soft contact lens in place on a human eye, deforms the lens, breaking its fluid suction-bond to the eye, allowing easy and gentle removal of the lens from the eye, without fingers touching the eye. The body of the device has a dished end with an elevated rim, an annular lumen and a depressed central segment, which end safely holds soft contact lenses by the variable suction of a flexible bulb, controllable by sliding the other end of the body into the lumen of the bulb. The lens is released by squeezing the bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1980
    Inventor: Delma M. Cointment
  • Soft contact lens removing device
    Patent number: D272073
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Inventor: Delma M. Cointment