Audio-adapted eyeglass retainer

• US 5,367,345 A
• Filed: 02/14/1992
• Issued: 11/22/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Trask Britt & Rossa
• Original Assignee: Trask Britt & Rossa
• Inventors: da Silva, Jean-Pierre M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sikes, William L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dang, Hung Xuan
• Application Number:
  US07/835,782
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 351/158, 351/123, 351/156, 351/157, 455/344, 455/350, 455/351, 24/3 C, 2/452
• US Class Current: 351/123
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/10 Electronic devices other than hearing aids

Abstract

The invention relates to a hollow, strap-like eyeglass retainer which will provide audio electronic connections to interact with radio or other audio signal producing and audio speakers.

Claims

1. An audio headset adapted to be attached to standard eyeglass spectacles having temples and ear-fitting members comprising:

a pair of flexible, hollow sleeve members each having an internal bore sufficiently large to slide over the ear-fitting member of the ends of eyeglass temples and accommodate electrical conductors, and having two pairs of free ends, one pair adapted to slide over the ends of eyeglass temples and another pair of free ends, one free end from each flexible hollow sleeve member adapted to fit into an end patch containing an accessory jack, said end patch joining said free ends together,

said flexible hollow sleeve members when formed together being sufficiently long to at least fit behind the head of a wearer of said flexible hollow sleeve members when said one pair of free ends of said flexible hollow sleeve members are attached to eyeglass spectacles;

an earpiece speaker attachment, said attachment having means to attach to each of said eyeglass temples and flexible arm means to adjustably support at least one miniature speaker adjacent the ear of a wearer of said eyeglasses and having means adapted to interact with said flexible hollow sleeve members to accept and hold in position one pair of free ends of said flexible hollow sleeve members; and

an end patch member adapted to contain an electrical jack for electrically interconnected external electronic components to said audio headset and to join one pair of the free ends of said flexible hollow sleeve members together.

2. The audio headset of claim 1 wherein said flexible hollow sleeve contain electrical conductors.

3. The audio headset of claim 2 wherein at least one of said electrical conductors is adapted to connect at one end to a miniature speaker.

4. The audio headset of claim 3, wherein at least one of said electrical conductors is adapted to connect to a radio.

5. The audio headset of claim 1 wherein said flexible hollow sleeve contain a flexible antenna member adapted at one end to connect to a radio.

6. A hollow stem sleeve member for attaching a retainer strap to a pair of spectacle stems as well as providing structure to hold certain accessory devices in a certain selected position with respect to said hollow stem sleeve, comprising:

a hollow, semi-flexible sleeve having an internal bore shaped and structured to fit securely about the stem of a spectacle temple and to provide conduit space for a fine wire;

fastening means on said hollow stem sleeve structured to receive and have secured to it the open end of a hollow, flexible retainer strap;

accessory support means on said hollow stem sleeve to secure an electrical and/or audio accessory to said hollow stem sleeve so that said accessory can be positioned within certain relationships to said hollow stem sleeve.

7. The hollow stem sleeve of claim 6 wherein said accessory support means is a semi-flexible member positionable in certain selected positions with respect to said hollow stem sleeve.

8. The hollow stem sleeve of claim 6 wherein said necessary support means has internal conduit means to accommodate a wire-type element.

9. The hollow stem sleeve of claim 6 wherein said fastening means is a flange.

10. The hollow stem sleeve of claim 6 wherein said internal bore has an hour-glass cross-sectional shape.