Eyeglass receptacle

• US 3,977,516 A
• Filed: 07/01/1974
• Issued: 08/31/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Enrique Jesus Ramon Tilve
• Original Assignee: Enrique Jesus Ramon Tilve
• Inventors: Tilve, Enrique Jesus Ramon
• Primary Examiner(s): Lipman, Steven E.
• Application Number:
  US05/484,999
• Time in Patent Office: 792 Days
• Field of Search: D57/1 B, 150/52 R, 150/52 J, 206/5, 206/6, 206/260, 224/5 R, 224/26 R, 224/26 D, 220/339, 229/41 B
• US Class Current: 206/5
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/04 Spectacle cases; Pince-nez cases

Abstract

Folding eyeglass receptacle for pocket, briefcase and similar use, comprising a unitary member preferably made from a flexible yet durable material, including bottom, forward and rear portions joined by fold lines, the forward and rear portions having wing portions, possibly with similar fold lines, a lid and a lapel portion being successively attached to the rear portion, and nipples and corresponding openings for securing together the forward and the rear portions, and for connecting together the forward and the lid portions. The fold lines are preferably constituted by weakened zones of lesser thickness between respective adjoining pairs of the portions which form the unitary member.

Claims

1. A folding eyeglass receptacle comprising, in combination, a unitary member including a narrow bottom portion, a forward portion and a rear portion, joined together by respective fold lines, said forward and said rear portions being provided with respective lateral, generally triangular wing portions having nipples and corresponding openings selectively provided therein and securing them together, the edge of said rear portion remote from said bottom portion extending along another fold line, and a lid portion attached to said rear portion, which lid portion terminates in a foldable lapel portion superposed in the closed condition of the receptacle over said forward portion, the latter and said lid portion being provided with further nipples and corresponding openings therein for connecting them together, and wherein said bottom portion is substantially shorter than the combined lengths of said forward and said rear portions with the respective ones of said wing portions thereon, the receptacle in the folded and closed condition displaying a side view of an inverted truncated cone, the apparent edges of which are formed successively by said bottom, said forward, said lid and finally said rear portions.

2. The eyeglass receptacle as defined in claim 1, further comprising fold lines along which said wing portions are joined to said forward and said rear portions, and wherein at least some of said fold lines are constituted by weakened zones of lesser thickness between respective adjoining pairs of said portions.

3. The eyeglass receptacle as defined in claim 1, wherein at least said lid and said lapel portions and said wing portions are made from a flexible yet durable material.

4. The eyeglass receptacle as defined in claim 1, wherein said rear portion has therein at least one pair of recesses for passing a belt and the like therethrough for purposes of carrying the receptacle.

5. The eyeglass receptacle as defined in claim 1, wherein said forward portion has on its inner surface at least one cut-out defining a bumper portion against flattening the receptacle in the closed condition, said bumper portion being extended substantially perpendicular to the plane of said forward portion.

6. The eyeglass receptacle as defined claim 5, wherein said bumper portion is limited by a single curved cut-out.