Lens exchangeable goggle

• US 5,093,940 A
• Filed: 02/01/1991
• Issued: 03/10/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Takashi Nishiyama
• Original Assignee: Takashi Nishiyama
• Inventors: Nishiyama, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Schroeder, Werner H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Neas, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US07/649,532
• Time in Patent Office: 403 Days
• Field of Search: 2/431, 2/438, 2/439, 2/440, 2/441, 2/443, 2/430, 2/428, 351/43, 351/47, 351/59
• US Class Current: 2/441
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/02 Goggles breathing masks A62B18/00; swimming goggles A63B33/002; diving masks B63C11/12
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/025 Special attachment of screens, e.g. hinged, removable; Roll-up protective layers
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 33/004 comprising two separate lenses joined by a flexible bridge
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 1/00 Assemblies of lenses with bridges or browbars
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/00 Non-optical adjuncts; Attachment thereof G02C7/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 5/045 for varying the horizontal distance of the lenses

Abstract

A lens exchangeable goggle having adjustable distance and/or fixing angle of lens units which includes as components a lens unit having a tubular portion, a opening formed with a wider width than the lens unit in a mask frame and a holding mechanism for fixing detachably the lens unit.

Claims

1. A lens exchangeable goggle which comprises a mask frame having a pair of openings in right and left positions of the mask frame and a pair of lens units inserted in said openings, in which each of said lens units is composed of a spectacle lens, a tubular portion formed around the spectacle lens and a collar portion projecting outwardly from the backside of the tubular portion;

each of said openings in said mask frame is formed with a wider width in right and left than the width of the backside of the tubular portion of the lens unit; and

upper and lower external edges of the tubular portion of each of the lens units are interlocked with internal edge of each of the openings by means of a holding mechanism so as to hold detachably and moveably the lens unit in the opening of the mask frame.

2. A lens exchangeable goggle according to claim 1, in which the openings in right and left positions of the mask frame are formed with parallel lines or substantially parallel curves stretching in right and left directions at the upper and lower edges of the openings.

3. A lens exchangeable goggle according to claim 1 or 2, in which the holding mechanism comprises concave channels provided on upper and lower external edges of the tubular portion of the lens unit, and projections provided at the upper and lower edges of the opening of the mask frame to be interlocked with the concave channels.

4. A lens exchangeable goggle according to claim 2, in which the holding mechanism comprises a pair of projections forming a gap between the pair of projections on each of the upper and lower external surfaces of the tubular portion, so as the gaps are interlocked with the edges of parallel lines or substantially parallel curves formed on the upper and lower edges of the opening.

5. A lens exchangeable goggle according to claim 2, in which the holding mechanism comprises a projection provided on each of upper and lower external surfaces of the tubular portion of the lens unit forming a gap between the projection and the front surface of the collar portion of the lens unit, so as the gaps are interlocked with edges of the parallel lines or substantially parallel curves formed on the upper and lower edges of the opening.

6. A lens exchangeable goggle according to claim 1, in which is provided in the backside of each of the lens units with an ocular seal comprising a lip to be caught and held between the tubular portion of the lens unit and an internal edge of the opening.