Goggles with pliable and resilient sealing pad

• US 5,966,745 A
• Filed: 04/29/1998
• Issued: 10/19/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: GelTight Enterprises LLC
• Original Assignee: Alan N. Schwartz, Thomas D. Theisen
• Inventors: Theisen, Thomas D., Schwartz, Alan N.
• Primary Examiner(s): NERBUN, PETER P
• Application Number:
  US09/069,706
• Time in Patent Office: 538 Days
• Field of Search: 2/428, 2/430, 2/429, 2/9, 2/439, 2/447, 2/424, 2/425, 2/431, 351/43, 128/206.24, 128/206.25, 128/206.26
• US Class Current: 2/428
• CPC Class Codes: A42B 1/12 Bathing caps
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12022 Occluding by internal devices, e.g. balloons or releasable wires plugging an opening in the wall of an organ A61B17/0057; occluders for the cervical canal A61F6/146; vas deferens occluders A61F6/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12099 characterised by the location of the occluder
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12159 Solid plugs; being solid before insertion
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/24 for use in the oral cavity, larynx, bronchial passages or nose for medical inspection of cavities or tubes in the body A61B1/00; Tongue scrapers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 42/00 Surgical gloves; Finger-stalls specially adapted for surgery; Devices for handling or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/026 Paddings; Cushions; Fittings to the face
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/06 Respiratory or anaesthetic masks
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0688 by means of an adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 33/004 comprising two separate lenses joined by a flexible bridge

Abstract

The Goggles (10) include a frame (12) having a transparent portion adapted to cover at least one of the user'"'"'s eyes and a sealing pad (14) adjacent to the frame, comprising a compliant and resiliently deformable gelatinous elastomer suitable to conform under pressure to form a substantially airtight seal between the frame (12) and at least a portion of the user'"'"'s face adjacent to the sealing pad (14).

Claims

1. Goggles for isolation of a user'"'"'s eyes from the outside environment comprising:

a frame including a transparent portion adapted to cover at least one of the user'"'"'s eyes;

a sealing pad adjacent to the frame, said sealing pad comprising a compliant and resiliently deformable gelatinous elastomer suitable to conform under pressure to form a substantially airtight seal between the frame and at least a portion of the user'"'"'s face adjacent to the sealing pad; and

wherein the pliability of the sealing pad varies between the frame and the user'"'"'s face.

2. The goggles of claim 1, wherein the sealing pad is more pliable near the user'"'"'s face than it is near the frame.

3. The goggles of claim 1, wherein the gelatinous elastomer is sufficiently compliant that at least one compressive pressure between approximately 100 grams per square inch and approximately 3,500 grams per square inch applied to the top surface of a thin strip of the gelatinous elastomer will compress the height of the strip by approximately 25% of the height of the strip.

4. The goggles of claim 3, wherein the sealing pad is more pliable near the user'"'"'s face than it is near the frame.