Patents by Inventor Wilford B. Gowdy, Jr.

Wilford B. Gowdy, Jr. 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).

  • Patent number: 4796986
    Abstract: Combination safety glasses having frame lens openings fitted with non-correcting safety lenses. Raised portions from the rear of said frame lens openings are of integral, one-piece construction therewith. The raised portions have guide recesses that receive and dispose correcting lenses in parallel relationship with the non-correcting lenses. The correcting lenses are of the full magnifier, full prescription, full bifocal or half prescription type. Opposite ends of the raised portions have nasal-side detents and spring-biased, temporal-side locking detents. The nasal-side detents are of integral, one-piece construction with the raised portions, while the temporal-side locking detents are resilient and have spring biasing actions thereby rendering the locking detents spring-biased. The nasal-side detents engage the correcting lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1989
    Inventor: Wilford B. Gowdy, Jr.