Apparel – Guard or protector – For wearer's head
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-11
2001-09-18
Calvert, John J. (Department: 3741)
Apparel
Guard or protector
For wearer's head
C002S445000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06289523
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The subject invention relates to a type of swimming goggles, particularly to a structural improvement of swimming goggles involving a nose bridge that is equipped with a soft protective pad, providing comfortable contact with the user's nose.
Conventionally, the construction of swimming goggles involved lens frames, lenses, a nose bridge, a protective pad, and a headset. Wherein the nose bridge serves to join the lens frames, the headset is fastened onto the user's head; while the protective pad, which is resistant to water seepage, provides comfortable contact with the user's face. Different users have different face shapes and different distances between their eyes, though comfortable contact can be achieved by adjusting the nose bridge and the tension of the headset. The protective pad for better fitting with the user's face and the nose bridge in contact with the user's nose, also play important roles to the comfort of fit when the user is wearing swimming goggles. The prior design of swimming goggles involved a protective pad, either of a sucking disc type or a foam sponge type, which did not have the same tight fitting and comfort to the user's face, but since they are both of soft materials, they can be accepted by consumers. However, a nose bridge serves simultaneously with the function of joining two lens frames, so it is often made of a hard material, resulting in an uncomfortable feeling of poor contact with the nose ridge. Please refer to
FIG. 1
for illustration of the nose bridge
50
on conventional swimming goggles
5
being made of a hard material in the joining of lens frames
51
and
52
on two sides. When the goggles are worn on the user's face, as shown in
FIG. 2
, the hard material of the nose bridge
50
will roughly contact the nose ridge
60
, so the comfort level when wearing the goggles may not be very high.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The primary objective of this invention—the swimming goggles—is to provide a type of swimming goggle which includes a nose bridge of a soft protective pad on one side of the nose bridge, which is in contact with the user's nose ridge, being of a soft material. This will provide comfortable contact on the user's nose ridge.
The subject invention, the structural improvement of the swimming goggles, is characterized in that: the said nose bridge comprises of a connecting unit and a combining unit, wherein on one side of the connecting unit is in contact with the nose ridge, and is fitted with a soft material, thus providing comfortable contact with the user's nose ridge.
Based on the main characteristics described above, the soft material fitted on the connecting unit is either foam sponge, rubber, plastic or thermoplastic rubber. The combining unit can be either a one-piece design, or fastened to the lens frames of the swimming goggles.
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Calvert John J.
Moran Katherine
Pro-Techtor Inter-national Services
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