Apparel – Guard or protector – For wearer's head
Patent
1996-05-09
1997-08-12
Nerbun, Peter
Apparel
Guard or protector
For wearer's head
A61F 902
Patent
active
056552289
ABSTRACT:
A pair of goggles is to be used in athletic events and is adapted to make a watertight seal around the eyes of a wearer. The goggles include a nosepiece, a pair of eyepieces interconnected by the nosepiece, and a head strap having two ends respectively connected to two strap connecting end portions of the eyepieces. Each of the eyepieces includes a substantially planar lens made of a rigid material, and an integrally formed lens frame body made of a plastic material. The frame body has a front annular wall with a first thickness sufficient to resist deformation in a direction perpendicular to the planar lens, and an eye socket contacting unit which extends rearwardly from an inner periphery of the annular wall. The socket contacting unit is formed by an annular portion and an annular flared portion which extends radially and outwardly from the annular portion. The socket contacting unit has a second thickness less than the first thickness so that, when forced against the eye sockets of the wearer, flexing of the flared portion pushes a brim section thereof toward an outer periphery of the rear section of the annular wall so as to reduce an exposing area of the flared portion outwardly from the outer periphery of the rear section of the annular wall.
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