Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 9th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 10th Aug., 1888
We GEORGE PAXTON and WILLIAM CURRY, trading as Pickard & Curry, Opticians
of 195 Great Portland Street in the parish of Saint Marylebone in the county of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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Our invention consists in making goggles to be worn as pince-nez rendering them
more comfortable and less unsightly. Hitherto goggles have only been made to be
worn as spectacles, and have been objected to owing to their weight and want of
symmetry. By adapting the bridge of our pince-nez (for which we have been granted
a patent A.D. 1885, 24 July No. 8953) on to a pair of wire gauze cups, or cups made
of any other material; or by the adaptation of any form of spring uniting two wire
gauze cups, or two cups made of any other material, and causing them to pinch the
nose and keep themselves in position we have constructed a pince-nez that will look
sightly and act as a complete protection against Sun or Wind. In order to get the
centre of each eyehole immediately opposite the pupil of either eye, plackets are
adapted to the cups causing them to take a position suitable to the wearer.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1888.
WILLIAM OURRY.
GEORGE PAXTON.

page_text: Improvements in Goggles.
We, GEORGE PAXTON, and WILLIAM CURRY, trading as Pickard and Curry, of
195 Great Portland Street, in the Parish of Saint Marylebone, in the County of
Middlesex, "Opticians "do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
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Our invention consists in constructing goggles to be worn as pince-nez rendering
them more comfortable, and less unsightly.
Hitherto goggles have only been made to be worn as spectacles, and have been
objected to owing to their weight and want of symmetry.
By adapting the bridge of our pince-nez (for which letters patent were granted to
us, No. 8953, dated July 24th, 1885,) on to a pair of wire gauze cups, or cups made
of any other material, or by the adaptation of any form of spring uniting two wire gauzo
cups, or two cups made of any other material, and causing them to pinch the nose and
keep themselves in position.
We have constructed a pince-nez that will look sightly and act as a complete
protection against Sun or Wind.
In order to get the centre of each eyehole immediately opposite the pupil of either
eye, plackets are adopted to the cups causing them to take a position suitable to the
wearer.
And in order that our invention may be thoroughly understood, we now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawings thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon.
Figure 1, represents the front view of the goggles, with the pince-nez marked A, B,
and C, attached to wire frames I, to fit round the front rims marked E, of the cups,
with the nose clips H, pivoted on the frame, and the cups at each end with the
wire gauze marked D, and the plackets marked F, and the loop G for the purpose of
attaching a cord or the like, the glasses being fitted in the front rim or fraine E.
Figure 2, denotes the top view of figure 1.
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Figure 3 represents an enlarged view of the bridge of pince-nez or double eye
goggles, with the apparatus pulled out or extended, each, arm being of semi-circular
section, working through slots in the collars J, and held in position by the coil
spring A, or any other shape spring may be adapted if desireable.
Like letters refer to like parts in each of the figures.
A, the bridge, spiral spring. B, part of the bridge attached to the frame. C, the
other portion of the bridge. D, the wire gauze to form the cups. E, the front rim
or frame. F, the plackets. G, loop for cord. H the pivotted nose pieces. I, the
frame round the cups. J, the slotted collars.

page_text: Having now fully described the nature and object of our invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, we claim as new and novel the following
First: The combination of the goggles to be worn as pince-nez rendering them
more comfortable and less unsightly to the wearer than any goggles now in common
use, substantially herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
Secondly: The combination of the goggles, constructed of wire gauze cups or any
other like material, for the protection of the eyes against the Sun or Wind, adapted
to the bridge of our pince-nez, the spring uniting the two cups and cause them to
pinch or fit any size nose, substantially herein described and according to the
accompanying drawings.
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Thirdly We claim the construction of. the plackets of each cup, to enable the cup
to take a position suitable to the wearer, and to be immediately opposite the pupil of
either eye, substantially herein described and according to the accompanying
drawings.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W.,
Agent for the Applicants.