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Title: |
US5406340:
Infant-to-toddler eye wear including head straps
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Country: |
US United States of America

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Inventor: |
Hoff, Leslie J.; Delton, MI 49046

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Assignee: |
None

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Published / Filed: |
1995-04-11
/ 1993-06-30

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Application Number: |
US1993000086171

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IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61F 9/02;
G02C 3/00;
G02C 5/04;
G02C 5/06;
Core:
G02C 5/00;
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IPC-7:
G03C 3/00;

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ECLA Code: |
A61F9/02S; G02C3/00B; G02C5/04; G02C5/04B; G02C5/06;

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U.S. Class: |
Current:
351/156;
002/452;
351/155;
Original:
351/156;
351/155;
002/452;

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Field of Search: |
351/156,155,158,157,142,123
002/010,426,452

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Priority Number: |
| 1993-06-30 |
US1993000086171 |

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Abstract: |
Eye wear for a child from infant to toddler wherein the eye wear comprises first and second resilient frames disposed about respective first and second eye lenses. The first and second frames include a flexible, adjustable nose bridge therebetween adapted to engage the bridge of the child's nose and first and second outer frame loops extending from the respective first and second frames toward and stopping short of the child's ears. First and second temple straps are provided each having one end looped about the respective first and second outer frame loops and an opposite end forming respective first and second strap loops. The eye wear includes first and second head straps extending through the respective first and second strap loops to hold the frames on the child's face. The first and second head straps have lower strap portions for extending about the posterior of the child's head and upper strap portions for extending over the child's head forwardly of the soft spot of the child's head. The lower strap portions are fastenable in adjustable overlapped relation behind the child's head and the upper strap are fastenable in adjustable overlapped relation on the child's head.

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Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Sikes, William L.; Dang, Hung Xuan

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Maintenance Status: |
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Family: |
None

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First Claim:
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The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. Eye wear for a child from infant to toddler, comprising:
- first and second cloth-covered resilient frames disposed about respective first and second eye lenses for contacting the child's face, said first and second frames including a flexible nose bridge therebetween adapted to engage the bridge of the child's nose and first and second outer frame loops extending from the respective first and second frames toward and stopping short of the child's ears,
- first and second cloth-covered temple straps each having one end looped about the respective first and second outer frame loops and an opposite end forming a respective first and second strap loop, said first and second strap loops including meshing material on the inner periphery of each loop, and
- first and second cloth-covered head straps extending through the respective first and second strap loops to hold the frames on the child's face, said first and second head straps including meshing material at intermediate regions thereof extending through said first and second strap loops for intermeshing with the meshing material on the inner periphery of the respective first and second strap loops, said first and second head straps having lower strap portions for extending about the posterior of the child's head and upper strap portions for extending over the child's head forwardly of the soft spot of the child's head, said lower strap portions having overlapped regions with intermeshing material so as to be fastenable in adjustable overlapped relation behind the child's head and said upper strap portions having overlapped regions with intermeshing material so as to be fastenable in adjustable overlapped relation on the child's head.

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