Patents Assigned to Uvex Safety, LLC
  • Patent number: 5381192
    Abstract: A protective eyeglasses construction includes a frame portion comprising a lense frame piece and a pair of temple frame pieces, and a lense portion on the lense frame piece. The temple frame pieces are pivotally attached to the lense frame piece about vertical pivot axes, and they are adapted to be pivotally adjusted about horizontal pivot axes and longitudinally adjusted to different lengths. The lense frame piece includes an upper frame section and brow bar which is attached to the lense frame piece so that the central portion of the brow bar is spaced rearwardly from the central portion of the upper frame section and resiliently deflectable toward the upper frame section for cushioning the forehead of a wearer against physical shocks delivered to the lense frame piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: Uvex Safety, LLC
    Inventors: Richard W. Canavan, John G. Mathews
  • Patent number: 5357292
    Abstract: In glasses, in particular industrial safety or sports glasses with an integral continuous sight piece and with inclination-adjustable side pieces articulated on a frame piece it is provided for the purpose of defined and reliable inclination-adjustment accompanied by the advantage of low-cost manufacturing that the sight piece has lateral backwards oriented appendixes formed in one piece with it and extending about in parallel to the wearer's head, that a frame piece with lateral appendixes is arranged along the upper edge of the sight piece surrounding the latter and the latter's appendixes, that the frame piece with the articulated side pieces is supported on the sight piece pivotably around a horizontal pivot axis, in that pins are arranged on the inside of each of the appendixes, that the pins engage with semicircular slits concentric of the pivot axis in the appendixes of the sight piece, wherein, to arrest the pins in certain angular positions of the slits, the latter are formed by a plurality of approx
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Uvex Safety, LLC
    Inventor: Klaus Wiedner
  • Patent number: 5345616
    Abstract: For a pair of goggles with a frame and temples made of relatively hard plastic material or of metal comprising at least one pad element made of relatively soft plastic material at the ends of the temples and/or at the nose piece it is provided for the purpose of increasing the wearing comfort of the goggles and for attaining a stable fit, as is necessary in particular with protective goggles for workers and sports goggles, that the pad element is formed as a relatively thin-walled convexity which is moulded of plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Uvex Safety, LLC
    Inventor: Klaus Wiedner
  • Patent number: 5261582
    Abstract: A belt case for a pair of eyeglasses is formed from a rigid and durable plastic for protecting the eyeglasses from damage. The case consists of front and rear rigid body sections which are receivable in interfitting engagement so that they cooperate to define an interior eyeglass compartment. The compartment is operative for retaining a pair of eyeglasses as well as a spare lens for the eyeglasses, and is further operative for individually retaining either the eyeglasses or the spare lens. The case is adapted to be mounted vertically on a wearer's belt and hingeably opened at the top end thereof to remove the eyeglasses and the spare lens. Both the spare lens and the eyeglasses are firmly retained in the case so that the lenses do not contact any interior surfaces of the case. The case also firmly retains the spare lens and eyeglasses so that they are not easily dislodged when the case is subjected to physical impacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Uvex Safety, LLC
    Inventors: John G. Mathews, Richard W. Canavan
  • Patent number: D342958
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Uvex Safety, LLC
    Inventor: Richard W. Canavan
  • Patent number: D348980
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: Uvex Safety, LLC
    Inventor: John G. Mathews
  • Patent number: D354068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Uvex Safety, LLC
    Inventors: Richard W. Canavan, James D. Hall