US1219422A - Eyeglass-mounting. - Google Patents

Description

G. A. BAUER.

EYEGLASS MOUNTING.

APPLECATION FILED JUNE 7, 1916.

1.21 9,422. Patented Mar. 20, 1917.

GUSTAV A. BADER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

EYEGLASS-IVIOUNTING.

Application filed June 7, 1916,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GUSTAV A. BADER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eyeglass- Mountings, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to eyeglass mountings, and more particularly to the type in which the guards are arranged on levers and are pressed toward the nose by springs, an object of this invention being to improve the construction shown in my former Patent No. 957,925, granted May 17, 1910, reissued Sept. 20, 1910, No. 13,151, by making the guards adjustable on the levers without affecting the action of the springs which move the guards toward the nose and also swing the upper ends of the guards inwardly.

To this and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of an eyeglass mounting embodying the present improvements;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the mounting, one side of the mounting being shown in section on the line a-a, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 6-7), Fig. l; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the spring employed in this mounting.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, A indicates the lenses which are connected by a support comprising a central bridging portion 1, lens attaching devices 2 and horizontal portions 3 between the ends of the bridging portion and the lens attaching devices. The mounting of each guard is the same so that only one of them will be described.

From each horizontal portion 3 a pivot pin 4 extends, said pin preferably having a head 5 at its upper end and being formed with a slot 6. On this pivot pin 4 the guard lever 7 turns, the pin preferably projecting from the upper side of the support and the guard lever resting on the upper surface of said support. At the forward end, the guard lever is provided with a finger piece 8, and

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 26, 1917.

Serial No. 102,241.

at its rear end the guard is mounted to turn about an axis at an angle to the axis about which the lever turns.

The guard preferably has a lower nose bearing portion 9 and an upper nose bearing portion 10. Between the nose bearing portion, an arm extends from the guard, this arm preferably being formed of pliable metal of fiat stock, the stock being rolled flatwise to form a horizontal adjustable loop 11, one arm of which connects with the guard and the other arm of which connects with one arm of a loop 12 which opens downwardly, the other arm of said loop 12 being connected with the rear end of the guard lever in a manner to be described hereinafter. The loop 11 permits the guard to be adjusted inwardly and outwardly, and forwardly and rearwardly, while the loop 12 permits the guard to be adjusted vertically for the purpose of adapting the guard to the nose of a wearer.

The connection between the arm of the guard and the guard carrying lever preferably comprises an upwardly opening loop 13 depending from the rear end of the lever 7 and having the depending portion 14 on the loop 12 received therein and pivoted thereto by a pivot pin 15 which extends through the two arms of the looped or U- shaped portion 13 and the depending portion 14. Stops 16 on said depending portion 1& are adapted to cooperate with the bottom of the looped portion 13 to limit the move ment of the guard about the pivot 15.

A coil spring 16 preferably volute in form may surround the pivot pin 4 above the guard lever and may have one of its ends 17 received within the slot 6 and its other end 18 engaging the arm 1% of the loop 12 above the pivot 15 so as to hold the upper nose bearing portion 10 inwardly.

An eyeglass mounting constructed in accordance with this invention is not liable to fall off the nose due to the lower nose bearing pad slipping on the nose, because the upper pads are pressed inwardly by the springs which also swing the guard levers on their pivots. These springs connect with the guards at such points that the guards may be adjusted forwardly and rearwardly, upwardly and downwardly, or inwardly and outwardly with reference to the guard levers, without affecting the actions of the springs. The arrangement of the parts is such that the mounting is inconspicuous when viewed from the front, most of the operating parts lying in rear of the support.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An eyeglass mounting comprising a support, a guard lever pivoted thereon, a guard having an arm formed with an adjustable loop and pivoted to said guard lever to turn about an axis at an angle to the turning axis of the guard lever, and a spring coiled about the axis of turning of the guard lever and having an arm engaging the guard arm above its pivot and in front of the adjustable loop so as to turn the upper portion of the guard inwardly as the guard lever is swung inwardly at its rear end;

2. An eyeglass mounting comprising a sup port, a guard lever pivoted to the upper side of the support and having a portion depending in rear of the support, a guard having an upper and a lower nose engaging pad and a looped arm proceeding horizontally therefrom and provided with a depending PO11? GUSTAV A. BADEB,

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