Prosthesis (i.e. – artificial body members) – parts thereof – or ai – Eye prosthesis
Patent
1996-12-06
1998-04-07
Jones, Mary Beth
Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or ai
Eye prosthesis
446389, 446392, A61F 214
Patent
active
057358958
ABSTRACT:
An artificial animal eye for use in taxidermy and including a nictitating membrane integrally formed thereon is provided. The artificial animal eye is formed on a transparent eyepiece blank, such as a clear glass eyepiece, having a concave inner surface and a convex outer surface. Animal eye coloration is applied to the concave inner surface of the eyepiece. The integrally formed nictitating membrane is formed as a dark coloration applied along a portion of the circumferential edge of the convex outer surface of the eyepiece. The nictitating membrane coloration may be formed using a leaded glass enamel glaze mixture which is applied to the outer surface of the eyepiece in the shape of the nictitating membrane. Firing the eyepiece causes the glaze to fuse with the eyepiece glass, integrally forming the nictitating membrane on the eyepiece. For artificial deer eyes, the nictitating membrane is crescent shaped, having a wide central portion aligned with the long (horizontal) axis of an elongated eyepiece pupil, with the ends of the nictitating membrane crescent shape terminating at points on the circumferential edge of the eyepiece on opposite sides of the pupil and aligned with the short (vertical) axis of the eyepiece pupil.
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Jones Mary Beth
Rinehart Family Company
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