Patents by Inventor Dinah K. Eilrich

Dinah K. Eilrich 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: 4986586
    Abstract: A soft, contact-lens remover having a tweezer-like main portion having a pair of legs, each leg defining a free end. Each free end telescopingly-receives thereover a retaining sleeve. A pair of removable and adjustable lens-removers are provided, one for each free end of the pair of legs. Each lens-remover has an elongated reed-like member that is frictionally held between a respective free end of one of the pair of legs and its respective retaining sleeve. Each lens-remover has a soft tip at one end of the reed-like member, which soft tips contact and remove a soft contact-lens from an eye. Each lens-remover is relatively positionable with respect to a free end of a leg both in the longitudinal, length-wise direction in order to adjust the projection of the soft tip, and also in the angular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Inventors: Dinah K. Eilrich, Calvin H. Eilrich