Optics: eye examining – vision testing and correcting – Spectacles and eyeglasses – With antiglare or shading
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-08
2001-05-01
Mai, Huy (Department: 2873)
Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting
Spectacles and eyeglasses
With antiglare or shading
C351S041000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06224206
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to fashion eyeglasses, and more particularly to fashion reflective sunglasses.
Reflective sunglasses which contain mirrored lenses to present to a viewer a reduced and upright image of the viewer are well known and were considered to be quite fashionable in certain circles. However, over time, such sunglasses have become passé and lost their “fashion” touch because they are so well known and conventional in the sunglass art. Thus the need remains for sunglasses which will function differently than the conventional reflective sunglasses (relative to a viewer) and thus hopefully become the new fashion.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide fashion sunglasses which present to a viewer a magnified and inverted image of the viewer.
Another object is to provide such fashion sunglasses wherein each lens has a concave external surface remote from the wearer and a convex internal surface adjacent the wearer.
A further object is to provide such fashion sunglasses which are simple and economical to manufacture, use and maintain.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It has now been found that the above and related objects of the present invention are obtained in fashion eyeglasses comprising a frame for removably securing at least one lens to the head of a wearer, and at least one lens secured to the frame for positioning each lens in front of an eye of a wearer, each lens having a concave external surface remote from the respective eye of the wearer and a convex internal surface adjacent the wearer.
Preferably the center of each lens is adjacent a respective eye of the wearer, and the edge of each lens is remote from the respective eye of the wearer. Optionally, in each lens the concave external surface and the convex internal surface are substantially parallel so that the lens is non-refractive, or the concave external surface and the convex internal surface are not substantially parallel so that the lens is refractive.
The present invention also encompasses fashion reflective sunglasses wherein each lens is reflectively mirrored on its concave external surface, thereby to produce to a viewer a magnified and inverted reflection of the viewer. Preferably, each lens is configured, dimensioned and mirrored to present to a viewer a magnified and inverted image of the viewer.
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Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein
Mai Huy
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