Lens Cleaners Patents (Class 15/214)
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Patent number: 5457842Abstract: The present invention is a portable eyeglasses wiper. It consists primarily of a pair of tongs and two wiping components. The pair of tongs is V-shaped and each of its two opening ends is a round head. The center of the round head has a joint, which has a joint flange on each of its two sides. Each wiping component consists of a shell seat, which has a soft pad on its top (for example, sponge). The soft pad is wrapped by a piece of wiping cloth. The excessive edge of the cloth is tucked into the space of the bottom of the shell seat. Then, a fixed disc is placed into the space. The fixed disc has a rectangular hole in the center. It enables the wiping component to attach to the inner and outer surfaces of the eyeglasses or sunglasses for wiping. The wiper is portable, too. Therefore, the present invention is very practical.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1994Date of Patent: October 17, 1995Inventor: Kun S. Chang
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Patent number: 5444890Abstract: A device for cleaning lens including first and second flaps including a non-lens-scratching supple material. Each flap being substantially the size of a standard eyeglass lens and including an end region and a center neck region. A main piece joins the first and second flaps at the neck region and hold the flaps in place one against the other.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 1994Date of Patent: August 29, 1995Assignee: Yuvee CompanyInventor: Timothy B. Higginson
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Patent number: 5421529Abstract: A process and device for the cleaning of the sensor surface of a yarn monitoring system used on spinning machines to monitor the yarn and/or the yarn quality. The yarn monitoring system is positioned without contact with the running yarn within the traversing area between draw-off roller and friction roller or below the draw-off roller. Cleaning of the sensor surfaces is carried out during the running of the yarn, at the reversal points of the yarn traversing movement, for the period of contact or nearness between the yarn and the limit of the yarn monitoring system until removal of the running yarn.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1993Date of Patent: June 6, 1995Assignee: Reiter Ingolstadt Spinnereimaschinenbau AGInventor: Pozzo Hans
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Patent number: 5365630Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning contact lens includes a lens cleaning case having a base and a cover pivotally mounted to the base. The base is provided with two spaced-apart domed lower cleaning pad receptacles. A cleaning pad motion plate is provided with a pair of dished upper cleaning pad receptacles adapted to be concentrically aligned with the lower receptacles when the motion plate is situated between the lower receptacles and the top of the cover. Cleaning pads having cleaning surfaces and spaced-apart handling surfaces are installed on each of the receptacles so that the cleaning surfaces of the lower pads. A stanchion or boss extends upwardly from the motion plate through a provided hole in the cover. The cleaning pads are absorbent and are impregnated with a suitable cleaning fluid. Lenses to be cleaned are placed on the top of each of the lower cleaning pads, the upper cleaning pads are placed on top of the lenses and lower pads, and the cover is closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1994Date of Patent: November 22, 1994Inventor: Mary B. Beckrich
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Patent number: 5363532Abstract: A method and apparatus for cleaning eyeglasses is disclosed in which a holding device is provided with a clamp mechanism for mounting eyeglasses in the holding device in a manner which provides clear access to the lens surfaces of the eyeglasses. A cleaning and drying device is provided with a brush at one end for use in cleaning the lenses with soap while an absorbent material is mounted to the other end to dry the lenses after cleaning. The apparatus aids in cleaning the lenses in a manner that completely removes oil from the lens surfaces and prevents the oil from being smeared over the lenses.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1993Date of Patent: November 15, 1994Inventor: Charles L. Sargent
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Patent number: 5347674Abstract: A contact lens treatment apparatus for polishing and cleaning a pair of contact lenses. The apparatus utilizes a pair of polishing probes to clean each contact lens within a liquid bath. A motor rotates the polishing probes and a fluid reservoir supplies a solution to the lenses. The polishing probes include a cleaning solution measuring and dispensing system integrally formed therein.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 1993Date of Patent: September 20, 1994Inventor: Chuck Gabbert
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Patent number: 5344002Abstract: The improved combination eyeglass lens polisher and eyeglass holder device includes an elongated, flexible, resilient bottom strip having opposite ends and a bottom surface and opposite upper surface. The bottom surface and, preferably, the entire bottom strip, is non-abrasive to eyeglass lenses and is adapted for polishing such lenses. A pair of flexible, resilient eyeglass holder pockets are secured, as by stitching, to the upper surface of the bottom strip adjacent its opposite ends and are spaced apart to define a central foldable portion therebetween. The pockets hold a pair of eyeglasses, with one lens thereof in each pocket.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1993Date of Patent: September 6, 1994Inventor: Mark Baczkowski
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Patent number: 5280661Abstract: A digital wipe device is provided for lenses and similar articles which consists of a pair of sheaths in which the first sheath fits on a thumb of a hand and the second sheath fits on a finger of the hand. An interconnecting flexible member is connected to and extends between one side of each of the sheaths. A plurality of wiping sheets are connected in a stacked manner to an underside of the interconnecting flexible member and the sheaths, so that the outermost wiping sheet can be used to clean the lenses and similar articles between the thumb and finger and than torn away when soiled to expose a fresh clean wiping sheet for further use.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 1992Date of Patent: January 25, 1994Inventor: Charles E. Brown
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Patent number: 5239723Abstract: A novel reusable swab having a gelatinous elastomer swab head attached to one or both ends of a handle is disclosed. The gelatinous elastomer swab head exhibits a combination of properties including unexpectedly high elongation and tensile strength and excellent shape retention after extreme deformation under high-velocity impact and stress conditions. The gelatinous elastomer swabs of this invention are soft, flexible, and have elastic memory, characterized by a gel rigidity of from about 20 gram to about 800 gram Bloom. These and other properties are particularly essential for cleaning various surfaces, deeply recessed areas small crevices, curved surfaces, various hard-to-clean corners of a car interior, other nooks and crannies, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1992Date of Patent: August 31, 1993Assignee: Applied Elastomerics, Inc.Inventor: John Y. Chen
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Patent number: 5222268Abstract: A "U" shaped framework includes spaced parallel frame plates, with the frames formed of a memory retentent material to maintain the frame plates in a parallel relationship to receive an eyeglass lens member therebetween. Each frame plate includes a cooperating fibrous or brush member to effect cleaning of opposed surfaces of the eyeglass lens. A modification of the invention includes a fluid reservoir to direct a cleaning solution through a brush head onto an associated lens surface for enhancing cleaning of an eyeglass structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1992Date of Patent: June 29, 1993Inventor: George F. Snodgrass
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Patent number: 5197815Abstract: A contact lens cleaning system has a soft tip applicator affixed to a container of lens cleaning solution and is used to apply the solution to the lenses. A supply of sterile replacement soft tip applicators are provided as a part of the system.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1991Date of Patent: March 30, 1993Assignee: Abbott LaboratoriesInventor: Murray J. Sibley
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Patent number: 5180243Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning sensitive surfaces, in particular optical glasses or the like, having a receiving device for accommodating a wetting and wiping device for the surfaces to loosen and detach impurities. The apparatus also has a cleaning device for absorptively removing the impurities from the surface. The wetting and wiping device has a liquid-dispensing wiping head and a liquid dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1989Date of Patent: January 19, 1993Inventor: Walter Vick
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Patent number: 5153254Abstract: A novel gelatinous composition is disclosed which contains an intimate melt blend admixture of poly(styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene)triblock copolymer having said styrene end block to ethylene and butylene center block ratio of from about 20:80 to about 40:60 and high levels of a plasticizing oil.The gelatinous composition is transparent and have a novel combination of properties including unexpectedly high elongation and tensil strength and excellent shape retention after extreme deformation under high-velocity impact and stress conditions. The gelatinous products of this invention are soft, flexible, and have elastic memory, characterized by a gel rigidity of from about 20 gram to about 700 gram Bloom. These and other properties are particularly essential for the gelatinous composition to have utility as toys, therapeutic hand exercising grips, shock absorbers, acoustical isolators, and other uses.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1988Date of Patent: October 6, 1992Assignee: Applied Elastomerics, Inc.Inventor: John Y. Chen
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Patent number: 5127126Abstract: A cleaning instrument which can easily clean a lens in a short time without damaging the lens, which can clean both side surfaces of the lens at the same time, and which can serve also as a case for storing the lenses, includes a cleaning ball for cleaning a lens. A cleaning vessel is formed with a recessed cleaning chamber for housing a contact lens and the cleaning ball. The cleaning chamber has a bottom concave inner surface which is curved complementarily to the curvature of the lens so that the lens can be mounted in face-to-face contact therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1991Date of Patent: July 7, 1992Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyoyasu Tanaka, Yasuyoshi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 5088146Abstract: A product and method of cleaning or conditioning contact lenses is provided. Lens cleaning or conditioning is accomplished in a pouch having first and second walls between which the contact lens can be inserted along with a cleaning or conditioning solution and gently manipulated to clean or condition the contact lens surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1990Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignee: Polymer Technology CorporationInventors: Francis X. Smith, Stanley J. Wrobel, Manohar K. Raheja
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Patent number: 5083661Abstract: A device for cleaning eyeglasses wherein a soft, nonabrasive cleaning cloth can be easily stored in, and removed from, an elongated storage container. A retaining cord is attached near the center of the cloth. The cord extends through the main aperture of the storage container, passes through a small hole at the end of the container opposite the aperture, and is terminated with a stopper bead. The cloth is easily retracted into the storage container by pulling on the cord at the stopper bead end. The cloth is of of such dimensions that when it is fully retracted into the storage container a short tail extends through the aperture. The cloth is removed by pulling on the tail. The stopper bead can be a cap for the aperture or act to latch a hinged lid for the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1990Date of Patent: January 28, 1992Inventor: Carlton Burwell
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Patent number: 5071276Abstract: A device for cleaning contact lenses is disclosed which has a tubular or pen-like reservoir having an abradant tip having an external surface which is complementary to the general shape of a surface of a contact lens. A lens support member for supporting a contact lens during the cleaning process is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 1991Date of Patent: December 10, 1991Assignee: Abbott LaboratoriesInventors: Randolph D. Nielsen, Gerald W. Hietala, Clarence J. Endicott
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Patent number: 5045116Abstract: A pre-moistened towelette wipes a compact disc clean without leaving a visible residue thereon. An ultra-pure tissue, free of binders, fillers and dyes, is permeated with a liquid cleaning preparation comprised of a highly concentrated solution of ultra-pure alcohol, a non-ionic, ultra-pure surfactant, and ultra-pure water.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1989Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Inventor: Eric Cohen
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Patent number: 5023971Abstract: A manually operable contact lens surface treatment apparatus for performing such contact lens surface treatment procedures as polishing, cleaning or lens modification. The apparatus has a sleeve like housing with open ends. A mounting drum is removably inserted in one end of the housing and carries a cloth or pad extended across the retainer opening for access from the opposite end of the sleeve. A contact lens holder is releasably mounted in the opposite end of the sleeve by a mounting assembly permitting axial rotation of the lens holder and axial movement within the sleeve so that a contact lens secured by the holder can be brought into contact with the pad and rotated with respect to it in order to perform a procedure on the lens. A first form of contact lens holder is for holding a rigid lens and a second form is for holding a soft contact lens.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1989Date of Patent: June 18, 1991Inventor: Larry W. Pompe
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Patent number: 4965904Abstract: A contact lens cleaning device comprising a ball, a vessel formed with a recessed chamber for housing the lens and the ball, and a vibrator for vibrating the vessel. The chamber has a bottom concave surface so curved that the lens is mounted in face-to-face contact thereon. After the lens is sandwiched between the bottom concave surface of the chamber, the ball is cleaned when the vessel is vibrated by the vibrator.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1989Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyoyasu Tanaka, Yasuyoshi Yamamoto, Yuzou Kaga
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Patent number: 4931201Abstract: A non-woven, fabric-like multifunctional cloth for household cleaning with high absorption capacity, minimum tearing resistance and a unique scrubbing and wiping efficacy. This cloth comprises a homogeneous mixture of wood pulp fibers and polypropylene microfibers impregnated with an all purpose cleaner.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1988Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventor: Jean Julemont
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Patent number: 4927284Abstract: A pen-like eyeglass cleaner includes a hollow pen body having a first end and a second end, a wiping tip of absorbent material disposed on the first end of the pen body, a detergent container mounted detachably in the pen body, an amount of detergent held in the container, a roll of cleaning cloth mounted detachably in the pen body, and a cap which is sized to firmly cover the first end of the pen body and has a clip secured thereto. A magnifying glass is mounted detachably on the second end of the pen body. A screwdriver is mounted detachably on the clip.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1989Date of Patent: May 22, 1990Inventor: Allan Tsai
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Patent number: 4854449Abstract: A container having a hollow body that provides a dirt free, moisture resistent environment in which a soft, reusable lens cleaning (e.g. chamois) material is removably located. A detachable end plug is received within an open end of the container. The end plug is connected to the lens cleaning material by way of a length of chain and an associated connector. Pulling the end plug outwardly from the open end of the container correspondingly causes the cleaning material to be removed therefrom. After use, the material is returned to the interior of the container and the end plug is reattached to the open end thereof. The container is of a suitably compact size so as to be easily carried within a handbag or pocket of the user to provide a convenient and readily available means for cleaning the lens of a pair of glasses, a camera, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1988Date of Patent: August 8, 1989Inventor: Michael A. Fitzhugh
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Patent number: 4818134Abstract: A cleaning pen for cleaning spectacle lenses includes a pen body, a cleaning tip, and a detergent reservoir contained in the pen body for automatically feeding the cleaning tip with detergent. A container which contains a cleaning cloth and at least one spectacle screwdriver therein is mounted removably on the pen body. A pen cap having a clip is sleeved removably on the pen body. The reservoir is designed so that the detergent is implemented therein. The container is designed so that the cleaning cloth and the spectacle screwdriver are removed conveniently therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1987Date of Patent: April 4, 1989Inventor: Allan Tsai
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Patent number: 4779300Abstract: An appliance for cleaning hard or soft contact lenses, as well as other delicate optical objects. A frame carrying a cleaning pad or cloth is mounted in a base. The frame has an access opening that is covered by the pad. The pad overlaps the edges of the frame defining the access opening. The base has a mounting opening corresponding in size and shape to the shape of the frame such that the frame can be installed in the opening of the base with the edges of the pad lodged between the frame and the base and the portion of the pad covering the access opening exposed and accessible by the user. Cleaning solution is applied to the accessible portion of the pad and the contact lens rubbed upon it in order to clean the lens.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1987Date of Patent: October 25, 1988Inventor: Larry W. Pompe
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Patent number: 4696697Abstract: A composition for polishing a plastic product, a layer of non-electrolysis nickel plating, an alumite layer or an aluminum product comprises water, a polishing agent of aluminum oxide and a polishing accelerator of nickel sulfate, and is neutral or weak acid.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1986Date of Patent: September 29, 1987Assignee: Fujimi Kenmazai Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hirohito Kitano, Toshiki Oowaki, Takashi Baba
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Patent number: 4666621Abstract: A pre-moistened wipe for cleaning hard surfaces to a shiny, substantially streak-free and lint-free finish comprising a flexible substrate of a mechanically bonded nonwoven material containing wood pulp and synthetic fibers having incorporated therein a low level of an acrylic polymer and impregnated with a liquid cleaning solution having a surface tension less than 40 dynes/cm and comprising an anionic, nonionic, cationic, zwitterionic or amphoteric surface active agent, a monohydric aliphatic alcohol of 1 to 6 carbon atoms and demineralized water.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1986Date of Patent: May 19, 1987Assignee: Sterling Drug Inc.Inventors: William A. Clark, David Pregozen
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Patent number: 4559662Abstract: A contact lens is trapped on an axis of revolution while one side of it and then the other is rotated against the opposing surface of a mating scrubber element normally treated with cleaning solution.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1984Date of Patent: December 24, 1985Inventor: Robert Kunold, Jr.
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Patent number: 4546517Abstract: An apparatus for wiping lenses or the like to clean them includes a wiping means for wiping a lens and a support means for supporting the wiping means in operative relation. Adhesive means may be used to attach the wiping means to the support means. Respective support means may be connected by a force fit frictional engagement of a protruding member in a receptacle associated with respective support means. A pair of support means may have respective heads for holding respective wiping means in operative relation; one of the heads may be concave and the other convex with respect to a plane therebetween. Moreover, means to facilitate manual grasping of the apparatus for convenient use also may be provided as part of the support means. A cleaning material or the like may be provided in the wiping material.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1984Date of Patent: October 15, 1985Inventor: Joseph E. Caniglia
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Patent number: 4504994Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning conventional contact lenses with a suitable cleansing preparation including a body formed of a soft, slightly abrasive material and having a recessed area formed therein for receiving a contact lens. A handle assembly includes a projecting portion of the same or a similar soft, slightly abrasive material which can be inserted in the recess to engage the lens and manipulate it to be rubbed on its inward and outward surfaces by the surface of the body recess and the surface of the handle projecting portion. The cleaning operation is carried out by first applying the cleaning preparation to the concave recessed surface of the body and to the convex projecting portion of the handle assembly, placing the lens in the recessed area 22 and inserting the projecting portion of the handle assembly therein and manipulating the lens against the surfaces to apply the cleaning preparation to the lens.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1984Date of Patent: March 19, 1985Inventor: Calvin M. Johnston
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Patent number: 4480352Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning lenses, mirrors and the like. A single, elongated piece of essentially flat plastic material has a pair of parallel, transverse grooves which demarcate a pair of jaws with a connecting element there between. By folding along such grooves, the jaws can be positioned to function as a pincer. A cleaning pad is affixed to the free end of each of the jaws for simultaneous cleaning of two parallel surfaces of a lens or a mirror or the like when the jaws are positioned to function as a pincer. Each of the cleaning pads comprises a soft, supple cleaning cloth having a velvety surface finish and a soft, cushiony base of foam or sponge rubber or other similar absorbent material. The velvety surfaces of the cleaning cloths permit effective, non-scratching cleaning of lenses, mirrors and the like, including plastic eyeglass lenses, without the use of water, chemical cleaning solutions or similar liquids.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1983Date of Patent: November 6, 1984Assignee: Trend Setter Products, Inc.Inventor: John G. Eggett
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Patent number: 4441796Abstract: A film support element assembly is disclosed, primarily for supporting film in relation to a projection aperture in a motion picture projector having a rolling loop film transport mechanism. In a preferred embodiment the film support element is a so-called "field flattener" and has a cylindrically curved surface over which successive frames in the film are laid by the mechanism. Cleaning means are provided adjacent the film path and the lens element can be displaced to bring a fresh portion of the surface into the film path. At the same time, the cleaning means remove debris from the surface. In one embodiment the lens element is vibrated to discourage adhesion of debris.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1982Date of Patent: April 10, 1984Assignee: Imax Systems CorporationInventor: William C. Shaw
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Patent number: 4434520Abstract: An apparatus for wiping lenses or the like to clean them includes a wiping means for wiping a lens and a support means for supporting the wiping means in operative relation. Adhesive means may be used to attach the wiping means to the support means. Respective support means may be connected by a force fit frictional engagement of a protruding member in a receptacle associated with respective support means. A pair of support means may have respective heads for holding respective wiping means in operative relation; one of the heads may be concave and the other convex with respect to a plane therebetween. Moreover, means to facilitate manual grasping of the apparatus for convenient use also may be provided as part of the support means. A cleaning material or the like may be provided in the wiping material.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1981Date of Patent: March 6, 1984Inventor: Joseph E. Caniglia
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Patent number: 4269306Abstract: An eyeglass case is disclosed wherein the eyeglass lenses may be cleaned without need for the fingers to touch the lenses. The eyeglass case construction permits the user to insert his fingers to clean the lenses without the fingers in direct contact with the lenses. The case construction is of low cost, disposable material so that after exhaustion of the cleansing surfaces, the case may be disposed and a fresh case utilized.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1979Date of Patent: May 26, 1981Inventor: Arnold R. Feniger