Eyeglasses holder

• US 4,157,166 A
• Filed: 07/18/1977
• Issued: 06/05/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Walter G. Voelker
• Original Assignee: Walter G. Voelker
• Inventors: Voelker, Walter G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schultz, William H.
• Application Number:
  US05/816,344
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• Field of Search: 248/102, 248/104, 248/110, 248/113, 248/317, 248/318, 248/511, 248/DIG. 2, 248/201, 248/539, 211/66, 24/3 C, 24/10 R
• US Class Current: 248/317
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/04 Spectacle cases; Pince-nez cases
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2200/0541 Eyeglasses or spectacles
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/00 Holders or carriers for hand articles; Holders or carriers for use while travelling or camping
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/082 for supporting spectacles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1656 Deflecting prong

Abstract

A leather holder for eyeglasses having a hole for encircling a rearview mirror post on an automobile and a pair of lower holes which permit the insertion of the temple piece of an eyeglasses frame therethrough to support the eyeglasses frame in a captured vertical orientation.

Claims

1. An improved holder for eyeglasses or the like comprising

an elongated band wherein the lower end of the elongated band is folded upwardly and secured to the center portion of said band forming a loop,

attachment means disposed at the upper end of the band for permitting the band to be attached to a fixed object and to vertically depend therefrom,

a pair of supporting means disposed proximate the looped end of the band, the first of said supporting means comprising a first opening disposed on a flat vertical side of the looped portion of said elongated band such that it can encircle one of the temple pieces of a pair of eyeglasses at the hinged end thereof proximate the frame containing the lenses of the eyeglasses, and the second of said supporting means comprising a generally circular second opening disposed on the elongated band proximte the fold line of said looped portion thereof such that it can encircle the temple piece of said eyeglasses at a position between the free end and the hinged end thereof,

said first and second supporting means being permanently disposed in a straight alignment relative to each other, such that the free end of the temple piece of the eyeglasses may be downwardly inserted through the first and then second supporting means whereby said temple piece can in a single downward movement be forced to depend vertically from said elongated band and said eyeglasses when folded can be suspended securely from said band.