Included In Shield For Eyes Patents (Class 2/431)
  • Patent number: 7203973
    Abstract: Swimming goggles have a left frame, a right frame, head strap, a nose support connecting the left frame and the right frame. Lenses are slantwise formed in the left frame and right frame. The width between upper edges of inner surface of the lenses and upper edges of the left and the right frames is smaller than the width between lower edges of inner surface of the lenses and lower edges of the left and the right. In use, the lenses fit to the user's face and eyes for maintaining almost horizontal relative to the eyes and close to the eyes, thereby reducing resistance force when a user jumps into water and enlarging visual field of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Inventor: Herman Chiang
  • Patent number: 7188625
    Abstract: External ocular shields for protecting a patient's eyes from medical treatment radiation energy such as a laser during a medical procedure. Each shield has an external surface that absorbs energy that hits the shield. The shields are connected to each other by a nose piece, and the nose piece is connected to each shield by a mounting means. The mounting means are positioned perpendicular to the shields and parallel to each other so that the nose piece can pivot upward towards the user's forehead and downward towards the user's chin without altering the fit of the shields over the user's eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Durette
  • Patent number: 7181779
    Abstract: An improved sport goggle for skiing, motorcycling, paintball, racing, and other sports featuring clip-mounted side apertures communicating with the eye cavity of the goggle through adjacent venting apertures. Venting of the eye cavity of the sport goggle is aided by forming of the clip shape to create low pressure zones adjacent to the side venting apertures. The clips are rotationally attached to the goggle to provide an adjustable mount for the strap around heads or helmets while still forming the negative air pressure zone in all rotated positions. The clips may also be provided in a kit of differently dimensioned clips to adjust the negative air pressure venting characteristics of the clips and goggle to the intended sport or task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: K-2 Corporation
    Inventor: Patrick P. Hussey
  • Patent number: 7181778
    Abstract: A dive mask having a pair of replaceable lenses comprises a soft, flexible skirt for bearing against the diver's face, an inner lens frame having a pair of openings for receiving the lenses and a peripheral member integrally molded into the skirt for permanent retention therein and a removable outer lens frame having a pair of lens openings and a peripheral member shaped to bear against the lenses adjacent the skirt. A sealing gasket is preferable molded into the inner lens frame along the lens openings to prevent water leakage into the face side of the lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Inventors: Dean R. Garraffa, Douglas J. Toth
  • Patent number: 7159250
    Abstract: A pair of swimming goggles includes left and right frames made of hard material, a head strap and a connection frame connecting the left and right frames and made of soft material. Supporters respectively extend from the inner ends of the peripheral surfaces of the frames opposite to the fastener base. A fill zone is defined in each of the inner surfaces of the frames opposite the supporters. A head strap is connected to the fastener base of each of the left and right frames. The connection frame includes a nose bridge and left and right pads connecting with opposite ends of the nose bridge. Receiving recesses are respectively defined in the junctions between the nose bridge and the pads for respectively receiving the supporters therein. Junction portions are respectively formed at the left and right pads corresponding to the fill zone of each of the left and right frames for being filled in the fill zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Inventor: Herman Chiang
  • Patent number: 7146654
    Abstract: Swimming goggles have a left frame, a right frame and a connecting frame connecting the left frame and the right frame. The left frame and the right frame are made of hard material. Enveloping frames are respectively formed adjacent to the inner surfaces and slightly offset relative to outer rims of the peripheral surfaces. Fastener base are respectively formed on outward sides of the enveloping frames for movably receiving head strap. The connecting frame is made of soft material, and includes a nose bridge, a left pad and a right pad respectively on left and right sides of the nose bridge. Thus head strap easily move through the fastener base made of hard material, while the left pad and the right pad touch a user softly. The nose bridge supports the support portions of the left frame and the right frame reliably, so the swimming goggles are used comfortably and avoiding distortion of the left frame and the right frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Inventor: Herman Chiang
  • Patent number: 7134149
    Abstract: Here is disclosed a face mask provided with a rotation angle regulating means for stepwise variation of an angle of each buckle relative to associated lens frame side wall. A buckle is rotatably attached to the lens frame side wall of the face mask and the lens frame side wall and the buckle are formed with the rotation angle regulating means comprising one or more protrusions and depressions adapted to be releasably brought into mutual engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Tabata Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiromasa Sato
  • Patent number: 7117547
    Abstract: Goggles include a goggles frame and a goggles lens. A mounting member is provide data central portion which connects a left lens which is positioned at the left eye side of a user and a right lens which is positioned at the right eye side of the user. The goggles lens is rotatably mounted on goggles lens supporting portion of the goggles frame by the mounting member. A radius of curvature of facing surfaces of the left and right lenses, and a radius of curvature of the central portion, in the horizontal direction, are set to approximately 250 millimeters. A radius of curvature of the side curving surfaces of the left and right lenses, which are positioned at the sides of the user's face, in the horizontal direction, is set to approximately 25 millimeters. A radius of curvature of the facing surfaces of the left and right lenses in the vertical direction is set to approximately 60 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: PENTAX Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuo Fukuwa
  • Patent number: 7073208
    Abstract: The invention is for safety goggles to protect eyes of a user of the safety goggles. The safety goggles include a lens and a frame with a bridge. A goggle chamber is formed between the lens and the face of the user. The safety goggles have a lower ventilation assembly that admits air one either side of the bridge. The safety goggles also includes an upper ventilation assembly at an upper portion of the frame. Air enters the goggle chamber through the lower ventilation assembly, heats near a nose of the user and exits the goggle chamber through the upper ventilation assembly. Each of the lower and upper ventilation assemblies cover a corresponding lower and upper air path in such a manner that allows air to pass through the corresponding air path while preventing solid projectiles and splashed liquid from having a direct line of trajectory to the eyes of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Jackson Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank P. Penque, Jr., Wayne P. Phillips, Alan W. Reichow, Karl Citek
  • Patent number: 7062796
    Abstract: Periscope Swim Goggles are swimmer's goggles with a periscope situated above the water line that projects the view that is ahead of the swimmer through a fiber optic cable to a viewer located on the goggle's eyepiece. Generally, an open-water swimmer using the free style or crawl stroke must occasionally sight on a landmark to swim toward. Periscope Swim Goggles would enable the swimmer to continually swim directly along the desired path without lifting the head for sighting. Conventional swimming goggles are typically comprised of two eyepieces contoured and gasketed for an air-tight fit around each eye socket and an elastic strap that wraps around the head holding the eyepieces tight to the face. In one embodiment of the invention, the periscope is positioned and secured at the back of the head by the elastic strap of the goggles. The fiber optic cable leaves the periscope and follows the elastic strap to the viewer which is mounted to the front of the eyepiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Inventor: Philip Allan Dixon
  • Patent number: 7062797
    Abstract: A multi-purpose goggle for protecting the eyes of the wearer in industrial and sporting environments and against glare when the wearer is viewing a computer screen for extended periods of time, for housing a virtual reality display and for use by pilots engaged in training for their instrument flight rating. The goggle housing is comprised of a downwardly extending upper surface with a first end and a second end, a viewing area operatively configured in some embodiments for receiving an insert, a centrally disposed nose bridge and a first and second lower panel disposed opposite the nose bridge and a securing means comprised of rearward extensions of the upper surface and lower panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Inventor: Basimah Khulusi
  • Patent number: 7020903
    Abstract: A combination eye and ear protection apparatus includes an eye protection portion which includes respective ends, an ear protection portion which includes a pair of ear-covering portions, and a pair of bridge portions connected between the respective ends of the eye protection portion and outer portions of the respective ear-covering portions. The eye protection portion includes a frame which includes frame ends, and lenses are received in the frame. The bridge portions include VELCRO bridge-to-ear-cover connectors and the ear-covering portions include complimentary VELCRO ear-cover-to-bridge connectors. With the combination eye and ear protection apparatus of the invention both ear protection and eye protection are provided for a wearer without the eye protection assembly interfering with good ear protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Inventor: Bill Artzberger
  • Patent number: 7013495
    Abstract: A sideshield eye protector is presented which includes a comfort and safety wing that is formed as a surface appendage thereon, and extends in a generally perpendicular direction from the surface of the sideshield along the contoured edge of the sideshield positioned closest to the wearer's face. The comfort and safety wing may be integral to the sideshield forming an integral structure therewith or removably attached thereto. The comfort and safety wing is oriented generally parallel with the facial surfaces and generally follows the proximate facial contours. A separate wing portion may be fabricated on both the upper and lower parts of each sideshield, the upper wing portion extending from the upper contoured edge of the sideshield which provides additional coverage over the upper portion of the eye orbits, temple and lower forehead area. The lower face about the lower eye orbit and upper cheek area has a generally parallel orientation with those facial surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Safety Optical Service Co.
    Inventor: Bennie F. Simmons, Sr.
  • Patent number: 6964067
    Abstract: An eye protection device is disclosed herein. The eye protection device includes a face frame, a lens frame, and a means for pivotally coupling the lens frame to the face frame, wherein the lens frame is selectively positionable with respect to the face frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Inventor: James Hartman
  • Publication number: 20040139532
    Abstract: A set of lens assembly parts which contains a base and a frame and at least one or more of a lens, fasteners for securing the lens between the base and the frame, a mask, and a strap. Lens assemblies formed from the set of lens assembly parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventor: Gerald R. Parks
  • Publication number: 20040117898
    Abstract: The invention is for safety goggles to protect eyes of a user of the safety goggles. The safety goggles include a lens and a frame with a bridge. A goggle chamber is formed between the lens and the face of the user. The safety goggles have a lower ventilation assembly that admits air one either side of the bridge. The safety goggles also includes an upper ventilation assembly at an upper portion of the frame. Air enters the goggle chamber through the lower ventilation assembly, heats near a nose of the user and exits the goggle chamber through the upper ventilation assembly. Each of the lower and upper ventilation assemblies cover a corresponding lower and upper air path in such a manner that allows air to pass through the corresponding air path while preventing solid projectiles and splashed liquid from having a direct line of trajectory to the eyes of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Frank P. Penque, Wayne P. Phillips, Alan W. Reichow, Karl Citek
  • Publication number: 20040078874
    Abstract: Here is disclosed a face mask provided with a rotation angle regulating means for stepwise variation of an angle of each buckle relative to associated lens frame side wall. A buckle is rotatably attached to the lens frame side wall of the face mask and the lens frame side wall and the buckle are formed with the rotation angle regulating means comprising one or more protrusions and depressions adapted to be releasably brought into mutual engagement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventor: Hiromasa Sato
  • Publication number: 20040078875
    Abstract: A goggle having features of the present invention comprises a transparent housing with an arcuate upper surface with a first end and a second end, a planar frontal surface, a centrally disposed nose bridge and a first and second lower panel disposed opposite the nose bridge. The first and second lower panel join the arcuate upper surface proximate the arcuate upper surface first end and second end while the housing is contoured to conform to the topography of the wearer's face. Vents are disposed adjacent the nose bridge and means for supporting the goggle on the head of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventor: Basimah Khulusi
  • Patent number: 6611965
    Abstract: Safety goggles for sports and work includes a frame, two lenses, two female fasteners and an elastic band. The frame has two opposite edges and a connector is formed integrally from each edge of the frame. Two socket holes are defined through the frame. A lock hole is defined in each lens, and a lens is mounted in each socket hole in the frame. Each female fastener has a lock hook that is formed integrally on an attachment element. The elastic band is coupled to the connector by means of the female fastener, and the lock hook is hooked in the lock hole in the lens to prevent the lens from popping out of the socket hole in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Inventor: Shu-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 6609255
    Abstract: An apparatus for shielding a human eye of a patient while allowing the human eye contact with the air. A lens of the apparatus is fashioned to one or both of the eyes and is optically clear and optically correct in that it does not distort the patient's vision. The optically correct aspect of the lens is achieved by either polishing a mold for the lens or alternatively, by die-cutting the lens from an optically correct material. The lens may be held in place by an adjustable strap. A plurality of vents to allow the eye contact with the air are a plurality of apertures in the lens or a plurality of spaces or holes in a cushioning structure, where the cushioning structure is coupled to the perimeter of the surface of the lens facing the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Dioptics Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Welling Lane, Ronald L. Underwood
  • Publication number: 20030150048
    Abstract: Face shield that is mounted to existing goggles commonly used in outdoor active sports such as snow sports. This face shield attaches to the securing straps of the existing goggle as a primary feature. This face shield follows the contour and shape of an existing goggle with the top edge of the face shield extending horizontally across the users forehead, past both of the temples as it wraps around the side of the face and head where it terminates at or past the ears, with the lower front of the face shield extending to or past the user's chin. This face shield creates a protected airspace in front of the users nose and mouth to allow adequate air circulation while providing excellent facial protection from wind, weather and precipitation. Furthermore, this face shield can be used in conjunction with a protective helmet and other weather protection and safety equipment commonly used in outdoor active sports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Lloyd R. Price
  • Publication number: 20030084500
    Abstract: The invention relates to a diving and swimming mask, comprising a mask body (1) which has at least one front opening, and means (3, 4) for firmly securing and/or holding the peripheral edge of at least one transparent member (2) in a water tight manner all along the peripheral edge of said front opening. According to the invention, the mask has at least one, two, three or more members (6) for finishing the peripheral edge of the assembly consisting of the transparent member (2), the mask body (1) and the securing members (3, 4), which members (6) may be added and/or secured at least or only by interlock and/or shape fitting, and after the addition of the means for water tightly securing the transparent member (2) to the mask body (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Fabio Testa, Renzo Maggi
  • Publication number: 20030070210
    Abstract: An eyes and ears protection device provides a forehead beam supporting a depending goggle-like eyes shield and laterally opposed depending side shields. The lateral portions of the forehead beam pivotally support rearwardly extending temple beams, the rearward portions of which each movably interconnect a rearwardly extending ear beam by a ball and socket joint. The rearward portion of each ear beam movably interconnects an earplug structure by a ball and socket joint. Each earplug structure movably supports an earplug positionable for use in a user's auditory canal and for storage in a cavity or space defined by the ear beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventor: Jake Wadsworth
  • Patent number: 6425144
    Abstract: Protective sports eyeglasses with a buffer being a shock-absorbing function includes a cushion having a hollow sealed endless shape. The cushion has a 3D tubular space instead of 2D (two dimensions) surface. The cushion is attached on an annular edge of a lens contacting the face of a wearer so as to fit the curvature of the face, and has an inner pressure preset in advance so that the cushion may contact closely and comfortably the face of a wearer with a buffer and a shock-absorbing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Inventor: Ing Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 6375865
    Abstract: Substantially transparent compositions that block electric-arc energy. A process of making the compositions comprise blending an IR/optical dye with a substrate material and subjecting the blend to curing conditions. Products manufactured from the composition ablate upon impact of electric-arc energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Paulson Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Roy Victor Paulson, Elihu Hoagland, IV
  • Patent number: 6357053
    Abstract: A safety goggles comprises a frame including an attachment member projected above the top center and a slanted coupling surface on the top of the attachment member; a lens fitted in the frame; a protector guide; a shade including a frame, an opening defined by the frame, a flange extended inward from the frame, studs on the frame of the shade, projections on either inner side of the flange of the shade, an engagement member projected above the top center of the flange of the shade, and an inclined coupling surface on the top of the engagement member; a protector lens including holes on the periphery being snugly engaged with the studs when the protector lens is fitted into the shade; a dark lens abutted on the protector lens; and an abutment member including alternate risers on the front peripheral edge, the abutment member being abutted on the dark lens within the shade such that the projections is capable of securing the abutment member to the dark lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Inventor: Tzu-Feng Wang-Lee
  • Patent number: 6349422
    Abstract: Facial protective wear including a facial shield member having a substantially transparent portion for allowing visible light to pass to the wearer's eyes and a support coupled to the facial shield for supporting the facial shield on the wearer's head. The facial shield member further has a nose protective portion extending over and protecting substantially the wearer's entire nose from in front of and from above and preferably has side portions protecting the wearer's eyes in a direction from the sides of the wearer's head. The facial shield member transparent portion preferably substantially prevents ultraviolet solar radiation from reaching the wearer's eyes and facial features, such as the nose and cheeks, and also from reaching the eyes in a direction from the sides of the head. The facial protective wear also can be used to protect the wearer from the wind and from injury due to flying objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Inventors: Linda Schleger, Mary Wittman
  • Patent number: 6282727
    Abstract: Eye wear includes at least a single piece lens supported and captured within a frame. In one embodiment a ramped protrusion from the lens engages a matching accommodating slot and lies off of a main slot in the frame which engages the upper edge of the lens. A lower lens is engaged by a fitted member having a soft sealing structure extending to one side. The fitted member is contoured to and attaches adjacent the edge of the lens and may extend from a point near the outermost edge of one side of the eye wear and to the nose area. Another embodiment of the fitted member is available as a continuous length having notches and which may be conformed to a wide variety of lens shapes. Another length of fitted member can also serve as a nose support structure extending completely across the front lens of the eye wear. Embodiments of the invention are utilizable with conventional spectacles. All embodiments contemplate removabilty, replaceability and interchangeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Inventor: Arthur Charles Lindahl
  • Patent number: 6276795
    Abstract: Safety eyewear is presented which is provided with particulate and liquid sealing around a frame containing lens/lenses and having temples that provide adjustment of the eyewear to a pantoscopic angle. The eyewear is provided with an adjustable strap assembly for better fit to the wearer's head. The eyewear lens/frame includes a plurality of projections that define various pantoscopic angles. The temple end piece includes a set of recesses that engage the projections formed on the lens/frame which temple end piece is rotated relative to the lens/frame to set the pantoscopic angle. The adjustable strap assembly further adjust the fit of the eyewear and can be unbuckled for snaplocked attachment of the eyewear directly to other safety equipment such as noise suppression ear muffs, communication head phones, breathing masks and the like. A plurality of ventilation channels is disposed on the frame to provide indirect ventilation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Aearo Company
    Inventors: James Hall, John E. Salce, Raoul Desy
  • Patent number: 6247811
    Abstract: The present multi-purpose eyewear uses a pliable frame and nose bridge in cooperation with strap adjustment and quick release mechanisms to enable multiple uses of the eyewear and adjustment of the eyewear while in place on the head of the wearer. The wraparound frames incorporate a sealant, such as a bonded gel filled rubber, around the lens periphery of the frame to present a comfortable interface between the wearer's skin and the eyewear. The strap adjustment and quick release mechanisms are simple to use and enable the eyewear to be adjusted while in place on the head of the wearer to fit the wearer in a manner to create a water-tight/air-tight seal (fluid-tight seal) around the wearer's eyes in a manner to conform to the contours of the wearer's face and avoid irritation of the skin from prolonged use. The lenses that are used in the eyewear are capable of being manufactured to prescription specifications and can include sunlight protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Xspex LLC
    Inventors: James Rhoades, Sinjon Webb
  • Patent number: 6195808
    Abstract: Protective sports eyeglasses with a buffer being a shock-absorbing function includes a cushion having a hollow sealed endless shape. The cushion has a 3D tubular space instead of 2D (two dimensions) surface. The cushion is attached on an annular edge of a lens contacting the face of a wearer so as fit the curvature of the face, and has an inner pressure preset in advance so that the cushion may contact closely and comfortably the face of a wearer with a buffer and a shock-absorbing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Inventor: Ing Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 6178561
    Abstract: Safety goggles include a primary frame having a top provided with two raised seats and an upwardly extending tongue between the two raised seats, each of the seats having a first pin extending outwardly longitudinally from an end thereof and a second pin extending outwardly longitudinally from another end thereof, a lens frame having a top provided with two cavities aligned with the two raised seats, each of the cavities being formed with a groove and an opening configured to receive the first pin and the second pin respectively, a recess being formed between the two cavities and aligned with the tongue, the recess having an inclined surface at an outer side thereof and a chamfer at an inner side thereof, the chamfer being located close to the opening, whereby the goggles can be rapidly manufactured and assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Inventor: Chen-San Cheng
  • Patent number: 6105177
    Abstract: Goggles for protecting the eyes of a wearer in ultra-hazardous conditions. The goggles comprise a frame that seals to the face of the wearer so that the wearer's eyes are enveloped. An adjustable strap is attached to the goggles and goes around the head of the wearer in order to secure the goggles over the wearer's face. Indirect ventilation is utilized to eliminate fogging, and drains are used in the frame to evacuate trapped moisture. A curvilinear lens with multiple optical zones is secured within the frame of the goggles and angled for increased lower peripheral vision. The materials with which the goggles are constructed are capable of withstanding a temperature of at least about 550.degree. F. for a minimum of five minutes without oozing or dripping or otherwise deforming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Paulson Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: Roy V. Paulson, Donald R. Reiterman, Richard B. Christner
  • Patent number: 6098207
    Abstract: Protective eyewear has a lens frame containing one or more lenses and temple arms or straps for attaching the eyewear to the head of a wearer. The protective eyewear also includes a brow guard. The brow guard attaches to the lens frame. The brow guard is configured to extend in one direction substantially between the temple arms (or straps) and, in a transverse direction, between spaced edges, one of which edges is disposed adjacent the lens frame, the other of which edges is extended toward the brow of the wearer. The brow guard incorporates a magnetic material for attracting and catching magnetically attractable particles such that the magnetic material assists eliminating the drift of such particles down in the gap between the lens frame and the wearer's brow. Magnetic side shields can be added to the protective eyewear or substituted in place of the magnetic brow guard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Inventor: Mayme L. Burtin
  • Patent number: 6094751
    Abstract: A goggle having a close fitting interface with the wearer's brow, cheekbones and nose bridge, comprises a set of detachable foam strips for easy and rapid substitution or replacement. Foam strips of various thickness and density are permanently bonded to a carrier band removably attachable to inner portions of the goggle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: John R. Gregory
    Inventor: Gerald R. Parks
  • Patent number: 6081934
    Abstract: An extra-ocular laser eye goggle (10) includes first and second eye shields (15) which are adapted to be mounted on and cover the eyes of a subject during a facial laser surgery. Each eye shield (15) is formed from a non-light transmissive material and includes an exterior surface (20) which diffuses a laser upon impact such that the subject is not injured. A seal member (35) is provided on each eye shield (15) which provides a sealing interface between the eye shields and the subject such that light is prohibited from passing between the eye shields (15) and the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Stefanovosky & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Stefanovsky, Ronald G. Wheeland
  • Patent number: 6067664
    Abstract: An ear and eye protection device for allowing a user to protect his eyes and ears simultaneously from the elements. The device comprises an eyewear having a right side and a left side, a pair of temple stems extending backward from the right side and the left side of the eyewear, and a pair of earplugs slidably mounted from the eyewear, such that the earplugs may be pulled downward towards the user's ears. According to the preferred embodiment, the earplugs may be secured to the free ends of the temple stems when the earplugs are not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Inventor: Luis Cortes
  • Patent number: 5996129
    Abstract: Goggles for providing interchangeable transparent and mesh screen eye shields on a goggle frame. The device includes a frame shaped to fit on the face of a wearer and having a front and inner and outer surfaces. The inner surface of the frame defines a central space. The ends of a flexible strap are coupled to the frame. The flexible strap is adapted for looping around the back of the head of a wearer to hold the frame to the face of the wearer. A mesh screen eye shield substantially covers the central space at the front of the frame. The mesh screen eye shield has a plurality of generally uniform apertures therethrough. Each of the apertures has a predetermined area and is designed for preventing objects greater than the predetermined sized passing therethrough. The apertures of the mesh screen eye shield are also designed for permitting the passage of moisture therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Inventor: Jose A. Lopez
  • Patent number: 5950247
    Abstract: Protective sports eyeglasses with a buffer having a shock-absorbing function includes a cushion having a hollow sealed endless shape. The cushion has a 3D tubular space instead of 2D (two dimensions) surface. The cushion is attached on an annular edge of a lens contacting the face of a wearer so as to fit the curvature of the face, and has an inner pressure preset in advance so that the cushion may contact closely and comfortably the face of a wearer with a buffer and a shock-absorbing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Inventor: Ing Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 5915541
    Abstract: Swimming or diving goggles comprising a one- or two-curved-lens system having a progressive cornerless curvature of cylindrical type with vertical axes and variable radius, without curvature in the vertical plane and described by a peculiar geometrical law, according to which the front portion located in front of the user's eyes has a curvature radius not less than 130 mm, and the two lateral portions have a lower curvature radius, anyway not less than 25 mm. The distance of the lens or lenses from the user's face is extremely reduced and such that two rays coming out from the eyes and lying on the horizontal plane intersect the lens or lenses at two point such that the perpendiculars to the inner surface of the lens or lenses at those two points form an angle not greater than 30.degree. therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Technisub S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giovanni Battista Beltrani
  • Patent number: 5907868
    Abstract: Facial protective wear including a facial shield member having a substantially transparent portion for allowing visible light to pass to the wearer's eyes and a support coupled to the facial shield for supporting the facial shield on the wearer's head. The facial shield member further has a nose protective portion extending over and protecting substantially the wearer's entire nose from in front of and from above and preferably has side portions protecting the wearer's eyes in a direction from the sides of the wearer's head. The facial shield member transparent portion preferably substantially prevents ultraviolet solar radiation from reaching the wearer's eyes and facial features, such as the nose and cheeks, and also from reaching the eyes in a direction from the sides of the head. The facial protective wear also can be used to protect the wearer from the wind and from injury due to flying objects. Various embodiments are described, including embodiments that clip onto existing eyewear or headware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignees: Hubert Greenway, Steven Pratt
    Inventors: Linda Schleger, Mary Wittman
  • Patent number: 5890235
    Abstract: In safety goggles, in particular industrial safety goggles, comprising a one-piece sight piece, the sight piece having lateral, transparent pieces joined on, forming one piece with the sight piece and extending toward the head of the user, it is provided, with a view to expanding the field of vision and increasing the effect of lateral protection, that the sight piece is rounded at its lateral outer ends and that the lateral pieces have a convexity matching this rounded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Uvex Arbeitsschutz GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Wiedner, Herbert Nussbickl, Erich Hegendorfer
  • Patent number: 5862529
    Abstract: New face masks protect a wearer's eyes against impact by a projectile or the like. In one aspect, the face mask comprising a plurality of frames, each of which is adapted to fit onto the wearer's face around one of the wearer's respective eyes, with each frame having mounted thereon a bar arrangement comprising a plurality of generally vertically directed protective bars. The bars are variably spaced in a horizontal direction and mounted into the respective frames so as to avoid obscuring the wearer's vision in any direction of the wearer's field of vision when both frames mounted onto the wearer's face. A "frame mounting arrangement," which in one embodiment includes a nose guard that is mounted between the frames to be situated over the wearer's nose, and a strap attached to both frames to extend behind the wearer's head, holds both the frames onto the wearer's face such that one of the frames is fitted around one of the wearer's eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Springuard Technology Group Inc
    Inventors: Donald E. Moodie, Paul F. Vinger
  • Patent number: 5771499
    Abstract: A face gasket made of a smooth, non-tacky, low durometer, chemically resistant closed cell resin foam is attached onto a goggles frame by injecting the resin into a mold cavity containing a contoured rim portion of the goggles frame. The contoured rim portion is intersected by multiple sprue openings that permit the pressurized resin to flow through the goggles frame and around the contoured rim during molding. The contoured rim portion is embedded within the molded gasket and sprue slugs extend through and fill the openings. The sprue slugs are integrally formed with the main body of the face gasket, thereby defining attachment links that permanently connect the face gasket in splash sealing engagement around the contoured rim and along internal and external sidewall surfaces of the goggles frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignees: American Allsafe Company, TMP Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Angelo Monaco, Daniel Wayne Morley
  • Patent number: 5729321
    Abstract: A pair sunglasses for preventing injury from the intense rays of the sun has a generally rectangular tinted transparent panel and a generally rectangular opaque sunshield rotatably mounted to a slender resilient headband which supports the sunglasses on a forehead of a user. When the tinted transparent and opaque sunshields are both in vertical or horizontal positions, the opaque sunshield is in covering relationship to the tinted transparent panel. In a second aspect of the invention, a generally rectangular tinted transparent panel is mounted for rotation on an opaque sunshield which is mounted for rotation on a slender resilient headband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Inventor: Linda F. Wielhouwer
  • Patent number: 5718500
    Abstract: An impact resistant positive pressure lens is utilized in conjunction with safety goggles or incorporated in a full face mask with a breathing apparatus. The lens protects the wearer from being struck by foreign objects as well as keeping paint over spray, chemicals, grindings and airborne particulate material form adhering to the surface of the lens. The lens consists of a first lens integrally formed with an air inlet chamber to effect an air flow through and out a second lens that is provided with air nozzles. The air nozzles direct the flow of air forward of the second lens and a point at the forward most edge of the shroud, thereby, peventing paint overspray, chemicals, grindings and airborne particulate material from adhering to the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Inventors: Mark T. Vinci guerra, Jeremiah J. Dooley
  • Patent number: 5651146
    Abstract: A pair of sports goggles include a frame for securing lenses and including two legs extended from the side portions thereof. A resilient belt includes two end portions secured to the legs for securing the frame to a head of a user. A soft outer covering is engaged on the legs and/or the bridge member or on all of the frame for contacting with the head of the user. The soft outer covering includes a chamber arranged inwardly of the legs, bridge and/or frame relative to the head of the user, so as to form a shock absorption mechanism for the sports goggles and to provide comfort as the belt is tightened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Inventor: David Yinkai Chao
  • Patent number: 5644800
    Abstract: A sports pad for substantially covering certain exposed areas of an eyewear frame to prevent facial cutting from the hard, rigid eyewear frame. The sports pad is preferably formed of a resilient, flexible elastomeric material. The sports pad is removably coupled to the eyewear frame by stretching the sports pad relative the eyewear frame. Preferably, the sports pad includes a pair of temple cushions and a nose cushion. The sports pad can be constructed to cover either eyewear with frameless lenses, partially frameless lenses, or framed lenses. In some embodiments, substantially the entire front portion of the eyewear is covered by the sports pad, while in other embodiments, only the peripheral edge of the front portion of the eyewear is covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Halo Sports and Safety, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter F. Leonardi
  • Patent number: 5642178
    Abstract: A pair of sports eyeglasses having a substantially hard, rigid frame, a pair of soft, resilient strap connector pads, and a headband assembly coupled to the rigid frame by the soft resilient strap connector pads. The soft connector pads provide cushioning at the junction between the rigid frame and the straps to provide a comfortable fit to the user. The frame front is shortened at its ends for use with helmets used in sporting activities or the like. The headband assembly includes a first elastic strap extending between the soft, resilient connector pads, a second strap coupled at its ends to the first strap and extending over the top of the user's head, and a third strap extending between the first and second straps along a rear portion of the wearer's head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Inventors: Peter F. Leonardi, Carmine S. Di Chiara
  • Patent number: 5617588
    Abstract: A protective goggle construction consists of a goggle body and a toric lens which is snap received over the front of the goggle body. The goggle body includes a rigid frame portion, and a resilient face engaging portion. The frame portion includes rigid top, bottom and side walls which cooperate to define a goggle interior. The lens includes an optical toric front wall, and further includes top, bottom and side walls extending rearwardly from a peripheral edge of the front wall thereof. The top wall of the lens includes an upstanding ridge formed along the entire length thereof. The face engaging portion includes convex bulges in the temple engaging areas thereof. The rearwardly extending walls of the lens are slidably received over the frame walls to form the assembled goggle construction. Interengaging detent and clip structures are provided on the side walls of the frame and lens to releasably secure the lens and frame in assembled relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Uvex Safety, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. Canavan, John G. Mathews