Eyeglasses comprising a primary lens frame having a first pair of lens holders separated by a bridge portion having a major magnetic member disposed therein, said major magnetic member disposed within the bridge portion on a rear side of the bridge portion such that a surface of the major magnetic member is exposed and faces rearward. The eyeglasses further include an auxiliary frame having a second pair of lens holders separated by a bridge portion formed to include a protruding grip extension that extends perpendicularly outward from the auxiliary frame. The grip extension includes an upward lip with a minor magnetic member disposed therein such that a surface of the minor magnet member is exposed and faces forward. The auxiliary frame is coupled to the primary lens frame from the bottom such that the grip extension extends under the bridge portion in the primary lens frame and the upward lip engages the bridge portion of the primary lens frame on the rear side of the bridge, said major and minor magnetic members magnetically coupling together, thereby further securing the auxiliary frame to the primary lens frame.
June 14, 2009
Get Your Freak On With Fun Summer Fashion Eyeglasses
Summer is coming, we’re always in search of the hottest summer fashions that will really turn heads. Well, now I bring to you some funky and freaky summer eyeglasses that will certainly turn heads, but it may not be for the right fashionably-sound reasons! (more eyeglasses…)
June 13, 2009
Lions Club looking for used eyeglasses again
The Los Gatos Lions Club is collecting used eyeglasses it can recycle and give to needy people around the world.
The glasses collected are taken to a warehouse in Vallejo where they are cleaned and machine-graded by prescription. The glasses are then sent with Lions Club members on eyeglass missions, where volunteer eye doctors perform exams. The Lions then read the doctors’ prescriptions and match them up with eyeglasses from the inventory they have brought along.
If you have any used eyeglasses, you can send them to Lions Club, the used eyeglasses is useless for you, but they are very useful for others.
At the same time, I hope the eyeglasses shop can offer their out-of-data eyeglasses to the poor people, we shoud help each other, let this world becomes more beautiful.
June 11, 2009
About 158 million need glasses worldwide
The study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, was conducted by researchers from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of School of Public Health in Baltimore, the Vision Research Institute in Africa, and Australia’s International Center for Eyecare Education and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
The study estimated nearly 158 million people globally suffer with vision impairment resulting from uncorrected refractive error — which can usually be eliminated with an eye examination and a pair of eyeglasses. (more eyeglasses…)
June 10, 2009
Adjustable length upper frame member for eyeglasses
A frame assembly for eyeglasses is provided wherein the overall width of the eyeglass frame is adjustable by utilizing a telescoping brow bar. The upper frame member or brow bar is formed to include either a pair of telescoping or indexed joints allowing the length of the brow bar to be adjusted thereby placing the hinge points and temple bars further apart from one another. The adjustable length of the brow bar provides excellent adjustability of the overall width of the eyeglass frame in simple mechanical construction. Further, in a unique method of forming the adjustable brow bar assembly a central portion may be formed in a first molding step and an adjustable hinge section is then molded directly over the central portion in a second molding step. The present invention utilizes in-mold-assembly techniques to reduce the assembly steps required to form such an adjustable brow bar assembly while further resulting in an eyeglass frame that has increased adjustability and utility.
June 9, 2009
Buckle device for frameless eyeglasses
A pair of frameless eyeglasses includes a lens and two buckle members respectively and releasably mounted to two sides of the lens. Two hook members extend outward from each side of the lens. Each hook member includes a hook. Ea buckle member includes a compartment for receiving the hook members on an associated one of the sides of the lens. Each buckle member further includes two lateral sides. A slot is defined in each lateral side of each buckle member and in communication with the compartment. Each hook member is received in the compartment of an associated one of the buckle members, and each hook is releasably engaged with an edge defining an associated one of the slots.