Eyeglasses are used to correct vision, block sunlight or as fashion accessories. Eyeglass frames come in a wide variety of colors, shapes and sizes that provide aesthetically pleasing designs. Many people show their support for sports teams, schools and other organizations and entities by wearing clothing that shows the logo, color or other identification of the entity they support. One way to accessorize in this fashion is to use decorative glasses. Usually, this results in having to purchase multiple eyeglasses if one wishes to support more than one entity through their fashion choices. Users may also desire to make hand-free advertisements and statements to be worn as a banner on their eyeglasses, as well as to make changes in their appearance. The present invention increases the percentage of retention of any message or show of support displayed, while increasing viewership and visibility of the message, logo, or other show of support on the banner by being affixed to the eyes, which is one of the most common places people look when interacting with the users.
The present invention seeks to overcome the issue of needing multiple sets of eyeglasses to accessorize with multiple logos, colors or other identification of the entity a user wishes to support as well as to convey custom messages, advertisements or statements. While outer decorative pieces of eyeglasses may be interchanged to provide eyeglasses with different designs and a variety of looks, there still remains a need to provide additional options to configure the appearance of eyeglasses to display items such as team logos or to help express thoughts or messages in a non verbal manner, such as advertisements, proposals, protests, support, etc.
Disclosed herein is an eyeglass frame attachment assembly comprising a base, a platform and a detachable T-shaped wind guard. The base is generally comprised of a right upper frame, a left upper frame and a center support. The right upper frame and the left upper frame each comprise at least two arm grooves wherein the eyeglass frame attachment assembly may be attached to the eyeglasses by passing the temple arm of the eyeglasses through one of the arm grooves on each side. The center support strap can be affixed through a center hole for added support and stability to the platform. The platform comprises a channel, whereby the channel receives an interchangeable banner piece.
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The base 5 is designed such that it may fit on both wire frame glasses as well as thicker plastic or wooden frames. The base 5 is generally from about 7.62 to about 10.16 centimeters in length, from about 5.08 to about 7.62 centimeters in height and from about 2.0 to about 3.8 millimeters in width. The arm grooves 15A, 15B, 25A and 25B are generally from about 0.63 to about 0.76 centimeters in length, from about 1.24 to about 1.52 centimeters in height. The platform 40 is generally from about 6.35 to about 7.62 centimeters in length, from about 0.09 to about 1.06 centimeters in height and from about 0.51 to about 0.76 millimeters in width.
The platform 40 has a channel that is flexible to hold a banner from about 20.32 to about 27.94 centimeters in length, from about 5.08 to about 15.24 centimeters in height and the channel from about 0.01 to about 0.04 centimeters in width.
Interchangeable banner 55 may be made out of any materials such as paper, cardboard, or other semi-rigid or rigid material. The interchangeable banner may even be printed on home computers and added to the platform to form an expressive banner on the user's eyeglasses.
For the purposes of promoting an understanding of the principles of the invention, reference has been made to the preferred embodiments illustrated in the drawings, and specific language has been used to describe these embodiments. However, this specific language intends no limitation of the scope of the invention, and the invention should be construed to encompass all embodiments that would normally occur to one of ordinary skill in the art. The particular implementations shown and described herein are illustrative examples of the invention and are not intended to otherwise limit the scope of the invention in any way. For the sake of brevity, conventional aspects of the system (and components of the individual operating components of the system) may not be described in detail. Furthermore, the connecting lines, or connectors shown in the various figures presented are intended to represent exemplary functional relationships and/or physical or logical couplings between the various elements. It should be noted that many alternative or additional functional relationships, physical connections or logical connections may be present in a practical device. Moreover, no item or component is essential to the practice of the invention unless the element is specifically described as “essential” or “critical”. Numerous modifications and adaptations will be readily apparent to those skilled in this art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
This application is a Continuation in Part of U.S. Non Provisional application Ser. No. 14/657,502 filed Mar. 13, 2015, which claims priority to Provisional Application No. 61/955,423 filed Mar. 19, 2014. The entire contents of the above application are hereby incorporated by reference as though fully set forth herein. The present invention generally relates to eyeglasses. More particularly, the present invention relates to decorative attachments for eyeglasses.
Number | Date | Country | |
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Parent | 14657502 | Mar 2015 | US |
Child | 15460577 | US |