CA1217642A

CA1217642A - Timing device

Info

Publication number: CA1217642A
Application number: CA000434307A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Ivo R. Pincus
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1982-08-11
Filing date: 1983-08-10
Publication date: 1987-02-10
Also published as: GB2126369B; GB2126369A; GB8321362D0

Abstract

ABSTRACT

A timing device for attachment to a pair of goggles, the device comprising a housing adapted to allow vision therethrough and including a solid state timing mechanism and a time readout strip so that, in use, the readout strip may be viewed by the user through the lens of the goggles. The housing also includes a switching means operable externally of the housing.

Description

so This invention relate Jo timing device, and in particular, to a timing device which can be viewer by a person independently of head movement wrier are Syrian circumstances when a person who wives Jo know the time or ascertain a lapse of time, it unable to do Jo because a White or clock is not in view. One such situation it in the cave of a swimmer who desires to know a lap time. The usual citation when womb is aomp~tin~
10 Ann the clucks it that kiwi or distant holes a tippet end I us the iamb to the swimmer ~lter~tively, a crook it peeved near the pool to provide a N

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continual revolt of the searcher ' 8 lop times . However, for the swimmer to I 1 a clock, conscious effort must be Rudy to lift the he from the war. this it not only inconvenient, but is not good practice in comp~itive 5 swimming. There are alto other circumstances in which an indication of the time is required yet the person desiring to know the time it incapable ox making the necessary head or body movement to bring ho clock or watch into view. Pro instance, runners or joggers who run at nigh frequently wryness decal in reading two time on a Roy. watch due to both the solute movements of toe writ and head undo the lack of light.
Toe present invention provides an aid to the above problems.
Coring owe ho pronto invention there it provide a timing device çomprL~ing housing adapted in use to be attached in front of an eye of the user to allow vision there through, said oiling having therein a solid state timing enwomb an tire Rudy trollop which in use may be viewed ho the user.
Preferably the housing it sealed from the exterior end inkwell therein a witch to Hart end stop the -timing mechanism, the switch being ~ctuatable externally of the housing. In a preferred 0rr.~0diment the switch is a reed witch actuat~ble by on external magnet The housing may include A least one lens Jo ensure that the eye can focus on the readout trip. Preferably a planar lent is provided at one end of the sousing and convex lent at the end against the Ursa eye, the readout strip being positioned adjacent the planar lens.

Al In a preferred embodiment the housing is secured to one lens of swimmer goggles The housing it priorly constructed Of light Perle bye Molly and the readout trip is in the Norm of a 5 liquid crystal he prune invention will now be describe my way of example only with reference to the accompanying drawings in Welch inure 1 is a partially cut-away perspective view ox 10 a timing device constituting an embodiment ox thy invention;
and ire 2 it a plan view ox part of swimmers' goggles incorporating the timing device shown in Figure lo Rough the pro en invention in it broadest 15 aspect I considered to embrace many timing Dow Tao may worn on the head to provide an indication ox time independently of he'd movement toe preferred embodiment relate to ~wimmersl goggle O
In Figure I, there it illu3trat~d swimmers' joggles 20 10 comprising an eta tumor swap 11~ the end 12 ox which are attache re3pec~ively to Hun asset 14 and 15 wow integrally support the lens 16 and 17 of the goggles.
ho housing embowel 14 And 15 ore interconnected by a flexible trap 18 that, in use, extends Assyria the bridge ox 25 the nose ox the wirer.
A timing device in the Norm of on acrylic watertight hulling 40 it cured to project outwardly prom the lent 16 Thy housing my be framed in egrAlly wow thy lens 16 ox priorly I Dow succeed or welder to thy lo N

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A shown in Figure 1, the housing 40 colrlpri~s tapered rec~ar~g~llar enclosure, one end 41 ox which include a rectangular putter 43 which, Howe a doubly convey lent 48.
Roy other en 47 of the housing include planar lent 44 mounted at the extremity of the Hanukkah 40. behind the lens 44 is positioner 'eke digital readout trip I what, as Sweeney in Figure 1, induct rninu~:es end second Toe solid tote timing Doris end battery are housed within a small circa r unit 49 thaw comprise a threaded boy I that proves 10 ordeal from one idea ox the housing 40 Jo support a sure threaded cap 46 with an ION ring snot one thereabout The sucking it Syria out by use of rued witch (not:
shown) housed within the housing 40 and opened end Clyde ho use ox a magnet The magnet can be carried by ring which 15 would be worn on a inure of the user so that the user may witch thy stopwatch on and ox my simply bringing thy: ring into proximity with the reed switch in the Ron the housing 40. Tore are number ox suitable reed eta that may be l~sesl to privately this witching ~unctiorl and it i I cvn~idered that the ennui of such switches is well knt~m to persons Willed irk the rut The hying 40 it bonded or Theresa secured Jo the outer race of the lent 16 the goggle 15 and project B
shown in Ego 2, forwardly from the housing. The doughtiness 25 between the readout strip 31 and thy eye of the user is surf latently large to allow the eye to readily foe on the Italy readout or the strip 31 through the lent 48 which hug curvature to produce the dullard vat length to produce Cal or Meg ox toe reedit Trip . It envy d that to 30 Hun 40 could he fold as a ~ep~rat~ entity or attachment N

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to extolling ogle or alternatively the goggle Gould be marketed with the housing already attached on the lens of the goggle 8 .
The housing it constructed of acrylic plastics to 5 allow the entry of light 'co illuminate ho liquid crystal display. Alternatively ' it it intended Jo use the as~Pmbly in toe dark, battery operated L~13.D.~ may I explored housed in dark hying With the joggle embowel described above, a swirruner 10 can simply tart the clock at the star ox a rice or time Rowley, thy elapse of time will when eye continuously shown cover the on eye of the swimmer in~lepend~ntly of the movement arid activities of the swimlTIerO There it no r~guirement for Tao swimmer to look up end out of the water at a clock or listen 15 Jo audible sunless Thea resilient location of the joggles con the qkul l ~nç~re~ agony undried movement TV the readout trip relative kiwi thy eye ur~hermore the en~ap~ula~ion of the clock components withirl the tardy Satyr of the ogles projects thy symbol prom accidental damage.
To it understood thy the immune devise may also ye incorporated in other types of goggle such a Connally lent driving, skiing or even motor-cycle goslglesO In eye kiwi the housing would project prom one slide of the lens opiate one yo-yo EYE thy wearer.
Although the readout strip induct elapse of lima it it underrated that thy ~imlng mechanism may lncorporat~3 ocher feature such a real 'crime / up time and alarm time .
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Claims

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY
OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:

1. A timing device comprising a housing adapted, in use, to be attached in front of an eye of the user to allow vision therethrough, said housing having therein a solid state timing mechanism and a time readout strip which, in use, may be viewed by the user.

2. The timing device of Claim 1 wherein the housing is sealed from the exterior and includes therein a switch to start and stop the timing mechanism, the switch being actuatable externally of the housing.

3. The device of Claim 2 wherein the switch is a reed switch actuatable by an external magnet.

4. The device of Claim 2 wherein the switch is a reed switch actuatable by an external magnet.

5. The timing device according to Claim 3 wherein the housing incorporates at least one lens to ensure that the eye can focus on the readout strip.

6. The timing device according to Claim 4 wherein the housing incorporates at least one lens to ensure that the eye can focus on the readout strip.

7. The timing device according to Claim 5 or 6 wherein a planar lens is provided at an end of the housing and a convex lens is provided within the housing between the planar lens and user's eye, the readout strip being positioned adjacent the planar lens.

8. The timing device of claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein the housing is constructed of light permeable material.

9. The timing device according to claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein the readout strip is in the form of a liquid crystal.

10. The timing device according to claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein the housing is attached to a lens of goggles.

11. The timing device of claims 4, 5 or 6 wherein the housing is constructed of light permeable material.

12. The timing device according to claims 4, 5 or 6 wherein the readout strip is in the form of a liquid crystal.

13. The timing device according to claims 4, 5 or 6 wherein the housing is attached to a lens of goggles.