IP Library Granted Patent US 7,490,933
Granted Patent B2
US 7,490,933 · App. 11/449,757 · Granted Feb 17, 2009

Hingeless eyeglasses; especially safety glasses

Assignee: Uvex Arbeitsschutz GmbH
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Patent No.
US 7,490,933
App. No.
11/449,757
Granted
Feb 17, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

In hingeless eyeglasses, especially safety glasses, wherein the temples are formed as one piece with a top frame piece, and the top frame piece has provided on it fastening means for the lens, it is provided, with a view to obtaining cost-effective production, that said fastening means for the lens are injection-molded from plastic in one piece with an intrinsically elastic top frame piece.

Claims (12)

1. Hingeless eyeglasses, especially safety glasses, wherein

the temples are formed as one piece with a top frame piece, and

the top frame piece has provided on it fastening means for the lens,

wherein said fastening means for the lens ( 2 ) are injunction-molded from plastic in one piece with an intrinsically elastic tip frame piece ( 3 );

wherein the fastening means comprise at least two hook-like projections ( 11 ) on the top frame piece that hook over the edge of the eyeglasses, and, formed on a downwardly projecting vertical extension ( 17 ) of the top frame piece in the nose region, a hook projection ( 19 ) that can be snapped into place in a nose recess ( 14 ) of the lens ( 2 );

wherein the top frame, the vertical extension and the hook projection are of one-piece.

2. Eyeglasses according to claim 1 , wherein, when not worn, the templates ( 4 , 5 ) extend inward from the top frame piece ( 3 ) in an arc shape.

3. Eyeglasses according to claim 1 , wherein the lens has at its upper edge U-shaped recesses ( 15 ) that are dimensioned such that they hook in a form-fitting manner over the protrusions ( 12 ) of the hook-like projections that extend away from the top frame piece ( 3 ), the lateral edge of the recesses, in turn, having a transversely extending section ( 13 ) on the front end of the protrusions ( 12 ) hooking over it.

4. Eyeglasses according to claim 1 , wherein in the region of the lateral outer edge of the lens ( 2 ), the top frame piece ( 3 ) has provided on it projections ( 8 ) that hook over the lateral upper edge of the lens ( 2 ) in its inserted state.

5. Eyeglasses according to claim 4 , wherein in the region of the lateral projections ( 8 ) of the top frame piece ( 3 ), the lens ( 2 ) has recesses ( 16 ) that correspond to the projections ( 8 ) in a form-fitting manner.

6. Eyeglasses according to claim 3 , wherein the lateral limiting walls of the U-shaped recesses ( 15 ) extend in a direction perpendicular to the face plane.

7. A method for fastening a one-piece lens to a one-piece frame piece having hook-like projections laterally of the nose region, having a hook projection in the nose region, and having two lateral projections hooked over the outer edge of the lens, wherein the lens ( 2 ), for the purpose of fastening it to the frame piece ( 3 ) is bent into an arc-shape, thereby reducing is width, and inserted with the outer edge under said lateral projections ( 8 ), that the lens ( 2 ) is then pivoted to come to rest under the projections ( 8 ) laterally of the nose region, and that, lastly, the hook projection ( 19 ) is snapped into place in the region of the nose recess ( 14 ) of the lens ( 2 ).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 17, 2008
From: BRUCK, STEFAN
To: UVEX ARBEITSSCHUTZ GMBH
Reel/Frame 021991/0797 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 20 2005 009 131 U · Jun 10, 2005 · national
Continuity (1)
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