Patent ID: 7303276

Claim:
A fastening mechanism for attaching an eyewear object to clothing, said mechanism comprising: first and second clips, each clip having pivotally connected respective first and second elongated levers, said respective first and second levers having respective jaws disposed one over the other, said respective jaws of said first clip gripping the eyewear object and said respective jaws of said second clip gripping the clothing, each respective jaw of each respective lever being situated on a respective first longitudinal extremity thereof; and an articulated pivot pivotally connecting said respective first lever of said first clip to one of said respective first and second levers of said second clip, said pivot being disposed on the respective first lever of said first clip on a respective second longitudinal extremity thereof generally longitudinally opposite said first respective longitudinal extremity thereof, said first clip being freely rotatable relative said second clip on said pivot by an effect of gravity which maintains said respective jaws of said first clip, and thereby the eyewear object, suspended below said pivot.