Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – With step of making mold or mold shaping – per se – Utilizing surface to be reproduced as an impression pattern
Patent
1984-06-11
1990-01-30
Silbaugh, Jan H.
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
With step of making mold or mold shaping, per se
Utilizing surface to be reproduced as an impression pattern
264DIG30, 351130, B29C 3338
Patent
active
048972371
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention concerns eyeglasses and a method of fitting them to the human nose.
Everyone who wears eyeglasses must support almost their total weight with his nose. The only relief is contributed by the backward tension of the temples of the glasses. This relief, however, can amount to no more than 10% depending on how the ends of the temples are individually adjusted to the anatomy behind the ear. The distribution of weight on the nose is accordingly of highest significance. The largest contact surface possible will result in the most beneficial distribution of pressure and hence the lowest level of pressure on the surface being loaded.
Normally a well fitted pair of eyeglasses that is correctly sized and has normal to middle-level correction lenses presents no problem to either the optician or the wearer. Since the optician has eyeglasses in the widest range of materials, shapes, sizes, and designs available, the wearer will be satisfied with how his glasses fit if they have been professionally selected, processed, and adjusted.
Problems do occur however in providing those with faulty vision with eyeglasses, that can not or not adequately be solved with normal glasses. Problems of this nature derive first from weight of the glasses. Strong lenses, especially plus lenses, have a high inherent weight. This is especially true of eyeglasses for those who have had cataract operations because the glasses are relatively heavy due to being in the extremely high plus range. Plastic lenses are not always employed in such cases because of their susceptibility to scratching or lack of phototropic properties. Since contemporary large eyeglass frames accommodate large masses of glass, the weight of the glasses will be correspondingly high in this case as well. Further problems derive from anomalies of the nose and face or from a face that is not atomically suited to the support of eyeglasses. Such cases include flat or excessively sloping nasal bridges, bridges with almost no musculature, noses distorted as the result of accident or operation, noses that have no structure at the top, noses that are thick and too fat at the top, and cheeks that are too rounded in relation to a small nose. Finally, sensitivity of the skin, which is extremely common, must also be taken into consideration.
The object of the present invention is to provide a method of fitting eyeglasses to the particular nose of the wearer that will result in a good fit of the eyeglasses on the wearer's nose even subject to undesirable conditions.
The method in accordance with the invention involves obtaining an impression of the wearer's nose and inserting or mounting the impression in or on the frame of the eyeglasses. The result is a pair of eyeglasses with optimal distribution over the bridge of the nose of the pressure deriving form the weight of the glasses due to the "embedding" of the nasal bridge in the glasses. The bridge of the eyeglasses in accordance with the invention represents a "negative" of the "positive" nose.
One embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the drawing and will now be described in detail.
FIG. 1 is a front view of a pair of eyeglasses in accordance with the invention and
FIG. 2 is a section along the line II--II in FIG. 1.
The eyeglasses have a semifinished frame with two eyewires 1 that surround the lenses 2. Temples 3 are attached by hinges to eyewires 1. Eyewires 1 are connected by an eyeglass bridge 4.
An additional layer 5 of plastic that bonds to the material that the frame is made out of is applied to eyeglass bridge 4. Layer 5 appears in the drawing as the surface between the broken line and the outer contour of eyeglass bridge 4 facing the nose. The outer contour matches the shape of the bridge of the wearer's nose. The method of obtaining additional layer 5 by means of a model 6 matching a particular nasal bridge will now be described.
An appropriate amount of a curing plastic impression material is distributed over the bridge of the nose of the person with impaired vision. The eyeglasses are then placed ove
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Frey Peter
Kellner Hans-Jurgen
Fertig Mary Lynn
Fogiel Max
Silbaugh Jan H.
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