1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to swimming goggles, and particularly to swimming goggles suitable for children, capable of providing the safety wearing, as well as of bringing out nifty and happy feelings.
2. Related Art
Nowadays, people have developed several types of swimming goggles for different functions. Generally, they are made for water resistance, convenience of adjustment of head strap, and comfort for the contact of face. Because the appearance is quite limited by the structure designed in accordance with some function demands as well as by adult's way of thinking about further improvements of swimming goggles, the appearance of swimming goggles becomes difficult to diverge from conventional visual feelings.
It is believed that playing with each other in shallow water is what children would usually do in swimming pool, so that the functionality of swimming goggles for swimming is not the first thing that the provider would consider about. Instead, the convenience and safety of the swimming goggles for children are much more important, and the appearance of the swimming goggles needs to be well-designed for loveliness. Besides, if we try to shrink the swimming goggles used in adult to make it fit to the face of children, it may occur that the head strap becomes hard to adjust and thus produces uncomfortable feelings, the sharp corners formed on the contour of the components of swimming goggles easily cut the children, the components fell apart and scattered in water are mistakenly swallowed by children, or it likely to cause danger that children try to get the fallen swimming goggles back under the water. Briefly, the conventional swimming goggles are rarely designed in terms of safety, comfort and appearance, so they still need to be improved to preferably satisfy children's needs.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide swimming goggles that are in compliance with the national safety standards with no sharp corners on their contour causing the injury, and after assembled, their components could not be disassembled again to prevent children from mistakenly swallowing the fallen components scattered in the water.
Another object of the present invention is to provide swimming goggles having decorative frames in the front to give nifty and happy feelings, that is, the decorative frames could be designed in accordance with cartoon characters, e.g., the decorative frames have circular rings in harmony with the circular lenses to make the left and right frames more abrupt as if they are circular glasses in appearance, in order to simulate an image of Harry Potter, and alternatively, the decorative frames could also shape an image of Mickey Mouse to bring out nifty and happy feelings.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide swimming goggles, capable of quick positioning and adjustment in accordance with the size of child's head, by a head strap that could be connected or separated each other rapidly.
To achieve the above-mentioned objects, the swimming goggles comprise a lens frame having an inner circumference surface and an outer circumference surface; a decorative frame assembled with the lens frame and located on a side of the outer circumference surface of the lens frame; lenses and protection pads both assembled with the lens frame; and head strap devices at least comprising a head strap being of the buoyancy in water, and brackets made for perforation and orientation of the head strap, and further, the head strap having a first linking element and a second linking element capable of being connected or separated each other; wherein the swimming goggles have no sharp corners on their contour causing the injury, could not be disassembled again after assembled to prevent children from mistakenly swallowing their fallen components scattered in the water, provide the buoyancy in water such that when accidentally fell into water, it would keep afloat on the surface of water for ease of pickup for children's safety, and have the decorative frame that could simulate images of cartoon characters to bring out nifty and happy feelings.
According to one aspect of the present invention, the decorative frames having special frame types have circular rings to simulate an image of Harry Potter or the decorative frames shape an image of Mickey Mouse, to bring out visual senses from those cartoon characters.
According to another aspect of the present invention, the head strap having 2 mm in thickness, which could be considered as the best thickness, comprises a foam layer and a cloth layer formed on the upper or lower surface of the foam layer, wherein the foam layer is made of foam, while the cloth layer is made of polyester as so-called dacron or of spandex as so-called LYCRA, wherein the cloth layer could be decorated with any patterns printed on the surface of the cloth layer, such that a pattern that shows more characteristics in accordance with the image of cartoon character or animal that the decorative frames is trying to simulate, or of a trademark pattern.
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The head strap devices 5 comprises brackets 50, support arms 51, 52 and head strap 53 shown as dotted lines in
The decorative frames 6 made of polycarbonate resin have special frame types; in this embodiment, the decorative frames 6 have circular rings 60 in harmony with the circular lenses 30, 31 to make the left and right frames 20, 21 more abrupt as if they are circular glasses in appearance, in order to simulate an image of Harry Potter. Furthermore, each of the circular rings 60 has a ring groove 601 which takes in the peripheral surfaces 303, 313 exposed out of the lens bodies 301, 311 to preferably integrate the decorative frames 6 and the lens bodies 301, 311 together. Please further referring to
Each of the engagement devices 7 comprises a positioning rib 70 and a slot 71 that are intermeshed together and are assembled with the peripheral surfaces 303, 313 exposed out of the lens bodies 301, 311 and the decorative frames 6, respectively, that is, the positioning rib 70 assembled with the peripheral surfaces 303, 313 exposed out of the lens bodies 301, 311 has a rectangular shape and has a guiding side 701. As shown in
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It is understood that the invention may be embodied in other forms within the scope of the claims. Thus the present examples and embodiments are to be considered in all respects as illustrative, and not restrictive, of the invention defined by the claims.
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