Patent ID: 11911317
Assignee: DEROYAL INDUSTRIES, INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B  G | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A stack of eye shields, comprising
a plurality of eye shields, each eye shield having:
a frame having at least two receivers located along the frame and at least two latches, each of the latches located to engage one of the receivers, one of the latches including an outwardly extending rib, and one of the receivers including a pocket configured to snugly receive the rib, the frame having a plurality of spaced apart elevated support surfaces along and rising above an upper portion of the frame; and
a lens installed on the frame and having at least two lens apertures extending through the lens, each of the apertures aligned with one of the receivers of the frame with each of the latches engaged with one of the receivers securing the lens to the frame, the rib and the pocket cooperating to inhibit the lens from shifting side-to-side;
wherein the plurality of eye shields is provided in a stack with the eye shields stacked one on top of another with each of the eye shields and lenses oriented substantially vertical and parallel to one another one of the eye shields with each of the elevated surfaces of an overlying one of the frames of the eye shields in the stack being slightly forward of and overlapping a corresponding one of the elevated surfaces of an immediately underlying one of the frames of the eye shields in the stack, with each frame of each eye shield of the stack having a gap therebetween except at contact surfaces of the frames where the elevated support surfaces contact an adjacent lower surface of the frame of its overlying eye shield, whereby the elevated support surfaces of the frames stabilize the stack of the eye shields for shipping and dispensing of the stack of the eye shields.