Patent ID: 6174059
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: G02C

Abstract:
A pair of eyeglasses for providing the person wearing the eyeglasses a substantial upper vertical corrected field of vision and a substantial lower vertical uncorrected field of vision, comprising:right and left lenses, each having a bottom edge;a frame, including a lens support structure to be worn over the bridge of the wearer's nose, carrying the left lens and the right lens, said lenses and frame configured so that when said frame is worn by the person in a normal wearing position, said left lens is in optical registry with the wearer's left eye and said right lens is in optical registry with the wearer's right eye to define a substantial upper vertical corrected field of vision for viewing objects at a distance through the lenses and a substantial lower vertical uncorrected field of vision extending downwardly from the bottom edges of the lenses for viewing close objects by looking beneath the bottom edge of the lenses without repositioning the eyeglasses to utilize said upper and lower vertical fields of vision;wherein the bottom edge of each of the lenses is straight and unobstructed by the frame and when said eyeglasses are worn by a person in the normal wearing position, the bottom edge of each lens is horizontal and located in vertical alignment with the bottom edge of the wearer's cornea.