Abstract: An ear protector for protecting the ear against impact from a ball during the playing of racquet and handball sports, the protector including a ventilated cup-like cap member carried by a suspension means for adjustable engagement over the ear, and a clip for detachably securing the cap member to a headband.

Abstract: The device is in the form of a pair of specially designed glasses, goggles or an eye mask sealingly engaging the wearer's head. In each case, a frame includes a front support bearing one or more transparent, preferably prescription-ground lenses or eye shields, and a pair of side supports connected thereto. Components are connected to or built into the frame to allow free passage of air to the eyes while blocking contaminant-bearing liquids and solids. Thus, in one embodiment, eyeglasses are fitted with two sets of triangular preferably air permeable flexible sheets. One set of sheets depends from the side supports and is connected to the sides of the front support, with the other pair is connected to the side and front supports above the latter, being connected at its rear end to slides in the top of side support channels to permit easy folding of the glasses. In two other embodiments, goggles and eye masks bear air vents fitted with liquid and solid-blocking filters.

Abstract: A water sports headgear of high durability and buoyancy being stretchably retained on the wearer's head. A visor of a closed-cell foam type material is provided for protection from the sun. The visor is attached to the lower front of a head-surrounding strap of the same material. Curvatures of reduced foam in the strap above the ear area are provided to allow the headgear to fit snugly and at a lower level on the user's head. A Velcro sandwich-type adjusting system connects the ends of the strap at the rear of the user's head. Velcro tabs adhered to the lower temple area of the circumference strap are provided to secure sunglasses. The foam visor and strap parts are dipped in or sprayed with a liquid vinyl-type material creating a stretchable, water-impervious covering.

Abstract: A protector which may be readily mounted on a temple of glasses. The protector will extend from the front of the glasses to and beyond the ear piece of the temple so that there will be protection against wind and sun for one's eyes, the side of the face and one's ears. Preferably the protector is formed of a cloth having insulating characteristics and may include an inner rear panel which together with a rear portion of an outer panel defines an ear receiving pocket into which the rear and top portion of one's ear may be tucked for protection. The outer panel is provided with a sleeve arrangement for receiving the temple and this sleeve arrangement may be in the form of spaced short sleeves or elongated sleeves.

Abstract: A disposable and readily removable universal side shield for a variety of styles of eyeglasses. Each side shield is specifically constructed to fit on either the left or right side of the eyeglasses. Each shield includes a flexible sheet including a base portion having an adhesive on an inner face for attaching to the top and sides of an eyeglass lens frame and a generally bell-shaped shield portion. At least three spaced slits extend from the base edge into the shield portion and are sufficiently close to allow the material between adjacent slits to be torn out by hand, forming a slot in a selected position. The slot receives a bow of the eyeglasses so that the shield straddles the bow along the inside of the bow when the shield is in place. The side shield closes the area between the lens and the eye of the wearer to wind, dirt, and the like when the shield is in use.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a device for applying tension to the ear from the forward part of the skull or cranium so as to pull the ear and bring the temporal bone on which it is carried into external rotation to relieve pressure on the blood vessels and nerves carried within the temporal bone and other parts of the skull.

Abstract: Two plies (20, 30) of crescent shaped material are placed in overlying relationship, with the plies being attached along their convex edges (21, 31). The concave edges (22, 32) remain unattached to each other, so that a pocket (29) is formed between the plies of material. Loops (41, 42) are formed at opposite edges of the convex edge of the plies of material. The limbs (14, 15) of eyeglasses can inserted through the loops so that the plies of material form a visor at the forehead of the wearer of the eyeglasses. In the alternative, the eyeglasses can be removed from the visor and inserted into the pocket, so that the plies of material form a case for the eyeglasses.

Abstract: A sun visor for attachment to a pair of eyeglass temples includes a bill member having a substantially flat, rigid stiffening member formed with a substantially concave inner edge and a substantially convex outer edge. A top and a bottom material covers the top and bottom surfaces of the rigid stiffening member and has generally the same shape as the stiffening member. An outer ribbon of material is folded over the outer edges of the bill member and the top and bottom material and is secured thereto. A pair of loops of elastic material are stitched between the ribbon and the bottom material on the underside of the bill adjacent the sides where the edges meet.

Abstract: An improved sun visor which can be laid flat in its unused state in order to facilitate ease of storage and which can be removably attached to the temples of a pair of eyeglasses or sunglasses.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved spectacle frame in which a curved auxiliary bridge is provided below a bridge rigidly joining the rims of the spectacle lenses, this auxiliary bridge being turnably mounted between the rims in such wise as to freely adapt to the slope of the nose of the wearer.

Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus to limit the peripheral vision of the user. A pair of shields are pivotally attached to the templepieces of a pair of eyeglasses or an eyeglass-like frame. The pivotal movement is arrested by an inwardly extending pivot stop located near the upper edge of the shield. The pivot stop halts the pivotal movement of the shield in two positions to either block the peripheral vision or leave it unobstructed.

Abstract: A lug connecting device for a metal rim of a spectacle frame comprising a first lug formed on the rim and having a horizontal slit, a pin fixed to the first lug, a second lug on the rim and adjacent the first lug, a tie plate having an attaching portion inserted in the horizontal slit and a plate spring portion extending alongside the lugs, a bore formed in the second lug and having the pin fitted therein, and a stop provided on the second lug and engaged in an aperture formed in the plate spring portion, the plate spring portion being elastically deformable with torsion of the rim.

Abstract: To promote comfort and customized fitting of spectacles on individual wearers, an adjustable nosepiece formed of a thermoplastic is assembled with a nosepiece suspension frame by the optometrist after customizing the suspension frame for securement to either metal or plastic frame spectacles. The nosepiece can be heated by the optometrist for final shaping to individual nose contours and the nosepiece mounting lugs are pinched to secure the nosepiece in a selected adjusted position.

Abstract: These eyeglasses consist primarily of a frame, in the bridge portion of which, is a cylindrical magnet that is received within a sleeve of ferrous metal. The sleeve structure includes a flat connecting member, which is rigidly secured to a lens supporting member, so as to enable the wearer to pivot the lenses upward, or downward, as desired.

Abstract: An inflated floating bridge piece is provided for use on eyeglass frames to increase comfort, reduce slippage and allow for height adjustment of the glasses. The bridge piece is in the form of a resilient, hollow member having one or more air chambers in an inverted U shape adapted to fit over the bridge of the nose in place of conventional eyeglass bridges. The inner wall of the bridge is thinner than the outer wall to provide control over bridge pressure and an adjustment plate bears against the cross piece to selectively adjust the pressure in the chamber or chambers.

Abstract: Flip down sunglasses suitable for use in athletic competition are provided. A fixed part is attached to the wearer's forehead by means of ear pieces and an adjustable strap. A movable part is pivotally mounted to the fixed part and carries a sun visor. The sun visor may be locked into position both vertically and horizontally by means of grooves carried on flexible arms joined to the fixed part to engage ribs carried on the movable part.

Abstract: This invention refers to an auxiliary lenses unit for glasses, for example colored lenses, to superpose on the generally graduated lenses of a normal pair of glasses. Said unit includes a central body on which a pair of auxiliary lenses hang, by means of a suitable bridge member which can rotate in respect of said central body; this central body is provided with two pairs of pincers, to fix the auxiliary lenses unit to the glasses, whose opening is operated by an element which is integral with one of the two extensions forming each pair of pincers and which acts on it in such a way as to cause, by a manual push, the opening of the pincers owing to the elasticity of the material the above-mentioned central body is made of.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pair of eyeglasses with laterally slidable vision screens in each of the eyeglass openings. The vision screens have an opaque lower portion and a transparent upper portion, and have a clear see-through vertical slit which extends into the lower portion. By adjusting the vision screen so the golf ball, before it is struck, is viewed through the slits, and by keeping the ball in such view during the swing, the golfer controls his head position. A second form of my invention is shown which clips onto the user's regular eyeglasses, and a third form attaches adhesively to the lower portion of regular eyeglasses.

Abstract: A side shade attachable to a bow of a pair of spectacles and having a main portion hanging therebeneath but also a transverse shaped portion attached thereto and adapted to lap the adjacent side edge of a frame of the spectacles for closing out glare from coming to the wearer's eye from the area immediately rearward of the front of the spectacles.