Ventilated safety goggles
View Patent ↗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.
1. Safety goggles worn by a user to protect the eyes of the user, the safety goggles comprising:
a frame constructed as one piece, the frame having an upper frame portion, a lower frame portion, an interior side, and an exterior side; and
a lens supported by the frame, the lens and the frame cooperating to form a goggle chamber between the lens and a face of the user;
wherein the lower frame portion has a channel formed therethrough to allow air to flow between the goggle chamber and the exterior side of the frame, the channel configured to provide no direct linear path between the goggle chamber and the exterior side of the frame to prevent debris from entering the goggle chamber via the channel along a linear path,
wherein the channel comprises a first end and a second end, the first end having an opening into the goggle chamber and the second end having an opening facing rearwardly toward the face of the user when the goggles are worn by the user, the face of the user cooperating with the opening of the second end to further prevent debris from entering the goggle chamber.
2. The goggles of claim 1 further comprising a lower splash guard supported by the frame, the lower splash guard extending away from the lower frame portion to contact the face of the user and prevent debris from entering into the goggle chamber.