US758629A - Spectacle-holder. - Google Patents

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' No. 758,629. PATENTED MAY 3,190;

G. L. BASON.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 3, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE L. EASON, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MELVILLE A. LUMBARD, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

SPECTACLE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,629, dated. May 3, 1904.

Application filed September 15, 1903. Serial No. 173,296. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. EASON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Des Moines, county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spectacle-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a means of securing spectacles to the head, of simple, strong, durable, and inexpensive construction, which will not pinch the nose and will not cause the sides of the head from the eye to the ear and the back of the ear to become sore.

Afurther object is to provide such ameans in a manner that will permit of the spectacles being adjustable thereon.

My invention consists of certain details of construction hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a pair of spectacles fitted out with my device. Fig.

2 shows a detail view of a portion of the nosepiece of a pair of spectacles fitted out with my device, a portion of the rod being broken away. Fig. 3 shows'a detail view of the hook I employ on the end of the rod; and Fig. t shows a front elevation of the nose-piece of a pair of spectacles, my device being attached thereto, the rod being removed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the reference-numeral 10 is used to indicate the nose-piece of a pair of glasses,"said nosepiece being of any ordinary design not made to clasp the nose by means of a spring, and the numerals 11 and 12 indicate the lens secured thereto. Mounted centrally on the upper surface of the nose-piece 10. and extending upwardly therefrom are two parallel arms 13 and 14:, each being provided at its upper extremity and on its inner face witha lug 15 and 16, respectively. These lugs are designed to be circular in shape and convex'from their outer edges and of such a thickness that their central portions very nearly come in contact.

The numeral 17 is used to represent a rod provided on one of its ends with a hook 18, designed to engage the sides of the lugs 15 and 16 when the rod is secured to the spectacles. The rod 17 is made of spring metal and is designed to be of a sufficient length to extend over the top of a persons head when my spectacles are in use, the outer end of the rod being adapted to clasp the head and retain the spectacles in position. The two lugs 15 and 16 are designed to be exactly similar and are secured to the inner surfaces of the arms 13 and 14, respectively, at directly opposite points. In securing the rod to the spectacles the hook 18 is placed directly under the lugs 15 and 16 and forced upwardly, spreading the arms apart from their base until the hook, which is designed to be of a shape adapted to fit the curve of the outer surfaces of the lugs, reaches a certain point, when the arms 13 and 14: will again spring back in place, thus securing the rod to the arms. It is obvious that the manner of securing the rod to the arms will form such a joint as to permit the spectacles to move backward and forward from the rod in acirc'ular plane from the joint, thus making it possible to adjust the lens to any angle desired or move the lens any distance from the eyes or turn them completely up on the rod, and thus remove them entirely without changing the position of the rod.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A spectacle-holder comprising in combination a nose-piece having two upwardly-extending arms secured to its upper surface, a lug having its outer surface convex secured to the inner surface of each of the said arms; a springmetal rod provided on one of its ends with a hook designed to engage the lugs on the arms, all arranged and combined substantially as stated.

GEORGE L. EASON Witnesses:

MARION BoYDs'roN, E. REYNOLDS.

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