Swimming goggles
By designing an annular frame element and gasket structure with a fluid sealing clamping device, the problem of fluid sealing damage and lens damage in traditional swimming goggles needs to be replaced as a whole, achieving simple assembly and sealing retention of the lens.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202510058641.0
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Priority Date
- 2024-01-18
- Filing Date
- 2025-01-15
- Publication Date
- 2025-07-18
AI Technical Summary
Traditional swimming goggles may suffer from fluid seal damage during use and handling, and the lenses need to be replaced as a whole when they are damaged.
A swimming goggles including an annular frame element and a gasket are designed, the lenses and support frames are fixed by fluid sealing clamping devices, allowing for simple and reversible assembly and disassembly, ensuring sealing with reinforced frames and elastic reversible devices.
Simple assembly and disassembly of lenses is achieved while maintaining fluid sealing, avoiding the need to replace goggles as a whole due to lens damage.
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Abstract
Description
[0001] Specification
[0002] The present invention relates to the most well-known and common type of swimming goggles, which include at least one lens (usually two lenses) and a support structure that surrounds the lens in the form of a soft elastic gasket and extends behind the lens, and the soft elastic gasket is designed to abut against the eye socket of the swimmer.
[0003] The two distal ends of the support structure are connected to a strap, which is used to fix the goggles to the swimmer's head via a buckle that allows adjustment of the length and tension of the strap.
[0004] Swimming goggles have long been available on the market, where the lens is attached to the support structure by means of a separate element (such as a retaining frame), and the separate element fixes the lens against the soft elastic gasket when engaging with the support structure, thereby ensuring the fluid tightness of the goggles to protect the swimmer's eyes.
[0005] Swimming goggles are also known in which the lens is directly co-molded with the support structure and the elastic gasket.
[0006] However, it is known that these traditional swimming goggles have certain drawbacks: in the first case, the separate retaining elements may deform during the use and / or handling of the goggles, thereby compromising their fluid tightness; in the second case, even a minor damage to a single lens requires the replacement of the entire goggles because it is impossible to replace only the damaged lens.
[0007] Therefore, there is a need to improve the structure of the known type of swimming goggles.
[0008] The technical objective of the present invention is to provide swimming goggles that eliminate the technical drawbacks of the prior art.
[0009] Within this technical objective, an object of the present invention is to provide swimming goggles that allow for the simple assembly of the lens to the support structure.
[0010] Another object of the present invention is to provide swimming goggles that allow for the simple assembly of the lens to the support structure while ensuring the fluid tightness of the goggle components to protect the swimmer's eyes.
[0011] Finally, another object of the present invention is to provide a simple and reversible assembly of the lens to the support structure.
[0012] According to the technical objectives of the present invention, these and other objects are achieved by providing a pair of swimming goggles, which comprise: at least one lens; a support frame for the at least one lens, the support frame being characterized by at least one annular frame element that coincides with the periphery of the at least one lens; a gasket designed to rest on a swimmer's face, including at least one annular gasket portion that coincides with the periphery of the at least one annular frame element, the at least one annular gasket portion having a shaped peripheral edge that engages with the at least one annular frame element in a fluid-tight manner. The goggles are characterized in that the at least one lens is formed as a single piece and is characterized by a reinforcing frame at the periphery, the reinforcing frame being equipped with fluid-tight clamping means for fixing the at least one lens to the shaped peripheral edge of the at least one annular gasket portion.
[0013] In a preferred embodiment, the clamping means comprises at least a plurality of teeth that engage in a corresponding plurality of coupling seats provided in the at least one annular frame element.
[0014] Other features of the present invention are further defined in the following claims.
[0015] Other features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from a description of the preferred but non-exclusive embodiments of the swimming goggles according to the present invention, wherein the goggles have two separate lenses. However, the scope of protection also extends to swimming goggles comprising a single integral lens.
[0016] In the accompanying drawings, preferred but non-exclusive embodiments of the present invention are shown by way of example and not limitation, in which:
[0017] Figure 1 A perspective view of the swimming goggles is shown;
[0018] Figure 2 A side elevation view of the swimming goggles is shown;
[0019] Figure 3 A front view of the swimming goggles is shown;
[0020] Figure 4 A top plan view of the swimming goggles is shown;
[0021] Figure 5 An exploded view of the swimming goggles is shown;
[0022] Figure 6A 、 Figure 6B and Figure 6C Top plan view, front view and side elevation view of the lens are shown respectively;
[0023] Figure 7Shows a horizontal cross-sectional plan view of a swimming goggle;
[0024] Figure 7A Shows Figure 7 an enlarged detail of;
[0025] Figure 8 Shows a perspective view of a segmented portion of a swimming goggle.
[0026] The following detailed description refers to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification. In the drawings, like reference numerals generally identify like components unless the context otherwise indicates.
[0027] The illustrative embodiments described in the detailed description and shown in the drawings are not intended to be limiting. Other embodiments may be employed and other modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the subject matter disclosed herein.
[0028] As generally described herein and as shown in the drawings, aspects of this specification may be arranged, substituted, combined, and designed in a variety of different configurations, all of which are expressly contemplated and form part of this disclosure.
[0029] Referring to the accompanying drawings, a swimming goggle is shown, generally designated by reference numeral 10.
[0030] The swimming goggle 10 includes: two lenses 11 and a rigid support frame 13 for the two lenses 11, the rigid support frame being characterized by two annular frame elements 13a, each annular frame element being congruent with the perimeter of the corresponding lens 11.
[0031] The support frame 13 is rigid to ensure that the shape of the annular frame elements 13a matches the perimeter of the lenses and to hold the end buckles 22 for attaching the goggle to a strap that secures the goggle to the swimmer's head.
[0032] The swimming goggle 10 further includes a gasket designed to rest on the swimmer's face, the gasket including two annular gasket portions 16, each annular gasket portion being congruent with the perimeter of the corresponding annular frame element 13a.
[0033] The support gasket is suitably made of a soft material. Each annular gasket portion 16 is characterized by a shaped peripheral edge 16a that is elastically deformed by an elastic reversible means to engage the corresponding annular frame element 13a in a fluid-tight manner.
[0034] Typically, these elastic reversible means are configured as a complex peripheral portion of the annular gasket portion 16 that engages with each other in a complex conjugate peripheral portion of the corresponding annular frame element 13a.
[0035] Advantageously and innovatively, according to the present invention, the lens 11 is formed as a single piece, characterized by an outer reinforcing frame 30 which is equipped with a fluid-tight clamping device 40 for fixing the lens 11 against the formed peripheral edge 16a of the annular gasket portion 16.
[0036] The outer reinforcing frame 30 is formed as a thickening of the periphery of the lens 11.
[0037] Advantageously, the clamping device 40 includes a plurality of teeth 41 which elastically and reversibly engage on the front in a corresponding plurality of coupling seats 42 located on the annular frame element 13a.
[0038] The coupling seats 42 are formed as blind recesses distributed along the inner annular surface 42a of the annular frame element 13a, in agreement with the peripheral surface of the lens 11.
[0039] In one embodiment, the rigid frame 13 includes at least a second rigid element 15 which is configured to fit the shape of the user's nose bridge.
[0040] In another embodiment, the arcuate longitudinal element 23 extends from opposite sides of the second rigid element 15 and extends along the upper arch of the annular frame element 13a.
[0041] Generally, the swimming goggles 10 are manufactured by molding thermoplastic materials: the support frame 13 is made of polypropylene; the sealing gasket is made of silicone or thermoplastic rubber; and the lens 11 together with the reinforcing frame 30 is integrally molded from polycarbonate.
[0042] As described and shown, the simple assembly process of the swimming goggles can be summarized as follows:
[0043] Each rigid annular frame element 13a elastically engages at the rear with the formed peripheral edge 16a of the corresponding annular gasket portion 16 to form a liquid-tight seal.
[0044] The corresponding lens 11 is then engaged on the front with the assembly of the annular frame element 13a and the gasket portion 16 using the fluid-tight clamping device 40. The plurality of teeth 41 elastically and reversibly engage on the front in the corresponding coupling seats 42 in the annular frame element 13a.
[0045] The elastically reversible engagement of the clamping device 40 allows for the easy removal and replacement of the lens 11 from the annular frame element 13a when necessary.
[0046] In practice, it has been found that swimming goggles designed in this way are particularly advantageous for the simple, effective and reversible assembly of the lens, thus ensuring a liquid-tight seal between the goggle components.
[0047] The swimming goggles conceived in this way can be subject to many modifications and variations, all of which are within the scope of the inventive concept defined by the claims. Additionally, all details can be replaced by technically equivalent elements.
[0048] In practice, the materials used and the dimensions can vary according to requirements and the state of the art.
Claims
1. Swimming goggles (10), the swimming goggles comprising: At least one lens (11); A support frame (13) for the at least one lens (11), the support frame being characterized by at least one annular frame element (13a) that coincides with the periphery of the at least one lens (11); a gasket designed to rest on a swimmer's face, including at least one annular gasket portion (16) that coincides with the periphery of the at least one annular frame element (13a), the at least one annular gasket portion (16) having a shaped peripheral edge (16a) that engages the at least one annular frame element (13a) in a fluid-tight manner, characterized in that the at least one lens (11) is formed as a single piece and is characterized on the outside by a reinforcement frame (30) equipped with fluid-tight clamping means (40) for fixing the at least one lens (11) to the shaped peripheral edge (16a) of the at least one annular gasket portion (16).
2. The swimming goggles (10) according to claim 1, characterized in that, The clamping means (40) includes at least a plurality of teeth (41) that engage in a corresponding plurality of coupling seats (42) provided in the at least one annular frame element (13a).
3. The swimming goggles (10) according to the preceding claims, characterized in that, The plurality of teeth (41) engage the corresponding plurality of coupling seats (42) in a positive and reversible manner by elastic deformation.
4. The swimming goggles (10) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, The reinforcement frame (30) is formed as a peripheral thickening of the at least one lens (11).
5. The swimming goggles (10) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, The coupling seats (42) are formed as blind recesses distributed along the inner annular surface (42a) of the annular frame element (13a) and coincide with the peripheral surface of the lens (11).
6. The swimming goggles (10) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, The swimming goggles have two lenses (11).
7. The swimming goggles (10) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, The at least one lens (11) together with the reinforcement frame (30) is integrally molded from polycarbonate.