Patent ID: 6834952
Filing Date: 2004-12-28
Classification: G02C

Abstract:
Eyewear comprising a pair of removable temples and a lens frame with a pair of temple mountings each pivotally attached to the lens frame for pivoting movement about a pivot axis to provide for pivoting movement of the temples between a folded configuration located adjacent to the lens frame and a use configuration projecting from the lens frame, each mounting having a frame clip portion providing a socket and a clip aperture, each temple having an end extremity also with a clip portion, the temple clip portion of each temple being configured to releasably engage within the socket of a respective one of the mountings to releasably secure each temple to the frame: and wherein each temple clip portion includes a bayonet having a resiliently deflectable pawl that engages within the aperture of the associated mounting and is resiliently deflected about a deflection axis generally normal to the temple and generally normal to the associated pivot axis so that a user can resiliently deform the pawl to cause the pawl to retreat into the mounting to enable removal of the temple, each frame clip portion including a slot extending to the associated aperture, and each pawl includes a projection to pass along the associated slot to aid the user to manipulate the pawl to cause the retreat of the pawl to thereby enable withdrawal of the bayonet from within the socket.