Patent ID: 6098628
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An eye-protecting shield comprising an elongated transparent eyepiece extending laterally over the eye of a human and spaced outwardly away from an eyeball and eyelids and fitting along its outer perimeter to facial skin adjacent an eye substantially between a nose and a temple of a human, said eyepiece having an elongated bulbous portion tapering to a smaller portion adjacent an inner portion of an eye toward a nose and an enlarged portion adjacent an outer portion of an eye covered thereby, said enlarged portion having a substantially first planar portion at an end of said bulbous portion, said shield having a flange about said bulbous portion, said flange conforming generally to a contour of a face about an eye and having a substantially second planar portion coplanar with said first planar portion, and means to seal said flange to a face.