Patent Application
20100077539
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to a side buckle structure installed at two side edges of a pair of swimming goggles for a belt to pass there through, and more particularly to a side buckle of swimming goggles integrally formed into a strip shape, a retaining clip and a retaining groove of which may be locked into a whole after being bent.
2. Related Art
Recently, people have gradually paid attention to leisure sports. As a leisure sport capable of enhancing vital capacity and exercising muscles of the whole body, swimming is of great benefit to the physical health care. What's more, the burden on the body is greatly reduced due to the buoyancy effect of water on the body daring swimming. Therefore, swimming is also often used to help recovery from diseases.
Referring to shape and bent inward at two sides thereof respectively to form two notched portions 31. Therefore, the retainer 3 has two spaces for the belt 2 to pass through, such that the belt 2 may pass through the retainer 3 in an interlacing and overlapping manner. With a friction between overlapped surfaces of the belt 2, a relative position and length of the belt 2 may be fixed. Moreover, the length of the belt 2 is adjustable to increase the comfort of wearing the swimming goggles 1.
However, when the length of the belt 2 is adjusted, the user must take off the swimming goggles 1 completely, so as to sequentially adjust the lengths of the belt 2 at two sides of the retainer 3 by both hands and gradually adjust the length of the belt 2 by loosening and tensioning it. The operation of the adjustment is quite inconvenient. Moreover, since the adjustment is performed visually, the user cannot adjust the belt 2 to the proper length at a time. Instead, the user must put on and take off the swimming goggles 1 repeatedly, which increases the difficulty in the adjustment. Therefore, the structure needs to be improved.
The present invention is directed to a side buckle of swimming goggles with the most energy-saving mold structure and having advantages of product universality, easy assembly, and the like, in which a length of a belt may be conveniently adjusted, so as to solve the disadvantages in the conventional design and increase the convenience in usage.
In order to achieve the above objective, the side buckle of swimming goggles in the present invention is integrally formed into a strip shape, and has a retaining clip and a retaining groove respectively at two ends thereof. The retaining clip has a shaft rod at each of two sides thereof and an urging portion on an inner surface adjacent to an end edge of the retaining clip. The urging portion is protruded from the surface in a continuous step shape. The retaining groove is provided at each of two sides thereof with a folded plate having a shaft hole, and has a belt hole adjacent to an end edge of the retaining grove. A connecting portion is formed between the retaining clip and the retaining groove, and may dispose the retaining clip in the retaining groove after being bent. Furthermore, the connecting portion has an elliptical-shaped pressing portion.
To sum up, when the side buckle of swimming goggles is assembled at a pair of swimming goggles, the retaining clip passes through a through hole at one side edge of the swimming goggles and is locked in the retaining groove after the connecting portion is bent. The belt for wearing passes through the belt hole of the retaining groove, and is fixed by pushing the urging portion of the retaining clip to be fastened in one of continuous retaining portions on the belt with a restoring elasticity of the connecting portion. The side buckle of swimming goggles is assembled at the other side of the swimming goggles in the same manner, which is also quite simple. When adjusting the blet, the user depresses the pressing portion on the connecting portion, and then the urging portion may be rotated in an opposite direction with a shaft joint as a pivot, so as to be separated from the retaining portion of the belt to assume a movable state. The user can adjust the length of the belt by a single hand without taking off the swimming goggles, and the adjustment is quite easy and convenient, such that the convenience in the usage is increased.
The present invention will become more fully understood from the detailed description given herein below for illustration only, and thus are not limitative of the present invention, and wherein:
In order to make the content of the present invention comprehensible, the following illustration accompanied with figures is provided for the examiner to review.
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Thereby, after being assembled with the swimming goggles 5 and the belt 6, the side buckle 4 of swimming goggles in the present invention is formed into a coil shape and has elasticity to be used to adjust the belt 6, which is convenient for the user to wear in usage, and is quite simple and convenient to assemble.
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As described above, the side buckle of swimming goggles in the present invention (referred to as the present application hereinafter) has the following advantages.
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2. Moreover, since the connecting portion 43 in the present application has a restoring force, it is expanded outward and formed into a ring shape after being bent, such that the retaining clip 41 generates a force to fasten the belt 6 with the shaft joint as a pivot. When the pressing portion 431 is depressed, the belt 6 is loosened to be adjusted in length, and the pressing portion 431 is released again to refasten the belt 6, such that the adjustment may be accomplished by the user with a single hand and is quite easy and convenient.
The above description is merely a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but not intends to limit the implementing scope of the present invention. Other contents such as the change of the elastic material used by the connecting portion also fall within the scope of the present application. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present invention cover modifications and variations of this invention provided they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
In view of the above, the side buckle of swimming goggles in the present invention meets the patent requirements for the inventive step and industrial applicability. Therefore, the applicant files an application for a utility model patent to the patent office according to the provisions of the patent law.
