US388545A - Nose-guard for eyeglasses - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. H. EMERSON.

- NOSE GUARD FOR EYEGLASSES. No. 388,645. Patented Aug. 28, 1888.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYSS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. EMERSON, OF BUOKSPORT, MAINE.

, NOSE-GUARD FOR EYEGLASSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,545, dated August 28, 1888.

Application filed March 30, 1888. Serial No. 268,969. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. EMERSON, of Bucksport, in the county of Hancock and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvemeutin Eyeglass-Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in eyeglass-frames, and has for its object to provide a simple, convenient, and readily-adjustable nose-piece.

The invention consists in projecting arms from theopposing edges of the glassframe, and adj ustably securing upon said arms a nosepiece; and the invention further consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as Will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the glass; and Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the nosepiece and its support, the former being partly in section.

In carrying out the invention, A represents the glass-frames connected by the usual bowspring, B. 'lo each end support of said spring the frame, or in frameless glasscs'to the inner edge of the glass, an arm, D, is attached projecting downward, which is shown secured to the support by a screw, (1, and upon the inner face of said arm a nose-plate, D, is held to slide and swing. The arms D and plates D are held in engagement by a set-screw, 0, or other device, passing from one to the other through a slot, 11, in the latter, and into a suitable aperture in the former, preferably at or near the lower end, as illustrated. If in practice it be found desirable, the slo d in the adj ustable nose-plate may be omitted and produced in the arm D, and anyapproved form of retaining device may be substituted, such that the head of screw 0 will become flush with the outer surface of nose-plate D, thus preventing it from coming in contact with the nose of the wearer.

In operation the clips or nose-plates are loosened, the glasses placed in position upon the nose, and the clips agreeably adjusted thereto, whereupon the said clips or noseplates are secured in such aposition for future use.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In an eyeglass-frame, the combination, with plates D, rigidly attached to the lensframes, of the longitudally-slotted nose-plates D, and the clamp-screws c, for securing the latter in any desired adjustment, substantially as described.

2. Thecombination, with theeyeglass-spring and its attaching-screws, of the arms D, overlapping the ends of the spring and secured thereto by said screws, and the nose-plates pivoted and sliding upon the inner adjacent faces of the said arms, and screws for adjusting said sliding plates and forming the pivots thereof, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE E. EMERSON.

Witnesses:

S, E. HALL, RICHARD B. SToVER.

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