Patent ID: 6789894
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: G02C,Y10T

Abstract:
A spectacles frame comprising:two temples having a first and a second temple end portion, each of which has a temple body lying between said first temple end portion and said second temple end portion; a frame body having housing-forming means inside which both of the first temple end portions are housed, and into which each of the temple bodies can be inserted via respective ones of a first opening and of a second opening in said housing-forming means so as to take up a rest position, said temple bodies being suitable for being extracted from said housing-forming means so as to take up an in-use position, said housing-forming means having a first end portion and a second end portion situated respectively in the vicinities of said first and second openings; and retaining means for retaining each of said first temple end portions in said in-use position, in a respective one of said first end portion and said second end portion of said housing-forming means, each of said first temple end portions being provided with a retaining head; wherein each of said end portions of said housing-forming means is provided with at least a first constriction which is suitable for retaining the respective retaining head inside said housing-forming means; and wherein, in the vicinity of said first temple end portion, each temple body has a flexible zone which has flexibility greater than a flexibility of an ordinary portion of said temple and which, in the in-use position, forms a bend suitable for being opened out for penetrating into the housing-forming means.