Lighted glasses case

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-11-22
WATERS MICHAEL
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[0007]In this form, the case advantageously provides a secure housing for the lighted glasses while also providing convenient battery storage space. Accordingly, a user of the lighted glasses can have spare batteries on hand without having to remember and carry extra packaging containing the spare batteries. This convenient holder can also prevent a user from being unable to use the lighted glasses because of dead batteries. Additionally, by receiving the batteries in a friction fit, the battery holders substantially prevent the batteries from freely moving about the interior space of the case, which can damage the lighted glasses, such as by scratching / denting the lenses, the frame, and / or other components of the lighted glasses, inadvertently actuating a switch on the lighted glasses, or the like.

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Additionally, by receiving the batteries in a friction fit, the battery holders substantially prevent the batteries from freely moving about the interior space of the case, which can damage the lighted glasses, such as by scratching / denting the lenses, the frame, and / or other components of the lighted glasses, inadvertently actuating a switch on the lighted glasses, or the like.

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[0025]In general and as further described below, a case for lighted glasses is provided with a battery holder for one or more standard sized batteries for the lighted glasses. The battery holder is sized to receive the one or more batteries therein to conveniently secure and retain the batteries until a user of the lighted glasses requires a replacement battery to operate the lighted glasses. At such time, the user can remove the one or more batteries from the holder and install the batteries in the lighted glasses for providing power to the light sources mounted thereto. The holder can further retain the batteries in a configuration that substantially prevents the batteries from damaging the lighted glasses, such as by scratching or denting.

[0026]The holder can utilize a variety of receptacles to receive the batteries therein. By one approach, the holder includes one or more recesses sized to receive the batteries in a press-fit, such as with a depending wall. In another form, the ...

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Abstract

A case for lighted glasses is provided having one or more battery holders therein for receiving and retaining standard sized batteries for the lighted glasses. The battery holders can include a retaining surface that is sized and configured to engage and frictionally retain the standard size battery in the battery holder. This provides the battery holder with a friction fit with the standard sized battery. The battery holder may also be provided in a liner for the lighted glasses case. Upper and lower housing portions of the case are pivotably connected together to be pivotable with respect to each other between a closed configuration to form a housing interior space sized to receive the lighted glasses therein and an open configuration to provide access to the interior space to remove or replace the lighted glasses therein.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 487,118 filed May 17, 2011, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The invention relates to storage containers for glasses and, more particularly, to cases for lighted eyewear.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Hands-free lighting, such as lighted glasses, is often used to illuminate an area while performing a task or to direct generally outward for visibility. Light sources on eyeglasses usually include mounting arrangements of the light source, which may be an LED, on either the cross-frame or temple of the eyeglass so as to provide illumination forwardly of the wearer. In such configuration, lighted eyeglasses are typically used to provide directed or focused light so that an area immediately forward of the wearer can be illuminated for tasks such as reading, walking at night, camping, or emergency use.[0004]Li...

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IPC IPC(8): A45C11/04
CPCA45C15/06A45C11/04
InventorWATERS, MICHAEL
OwnerWATERS MICHAEL