Patent ID: 8684518

Claim:
An elastic miniaturized hinge suited to be used for eyeglasses having temples, said hinge comprising: a first element suited to be fixed to the front portion of said eyeglasses, along with; a second element suited to be fixed to one of the temples of said eyeglasses, said first and second elements being rotatably fixed to each other by means of, a shaft, a first end portion of said shaft being rotatably fixed to said first element by means of, a rotation pin so as to be adapted to be rotated around said rotation pin, a first intermediate portion of said shaft close to said first end portion being received in a through hole formed in said second element, said hinge further comprising elastic means having an internal space and adapted to counteract the rotation of said shaft and therefore of said second element with respect to said first element, a second intermediate portion of said shaft close to said first intermediate portion and located on the opposite side with respect to said first end portion extends outside of said second element and is received in the internal space defined by elastic means which are maintained in position by, fixing means applied to the second end portion of said shaft opposite to said first end portion, so that said hinge may be preassembled by rotatably fixing said first and second elements by means of said shaft, by inserting said second intermediate portion of said shaft into the internal space defined by said elastic means and by applying said fixing means to said second end portion of said shaft, in that said first element is adapted to be alternatively inserted into and removed from a corresponding seat of said front portion of said eyeglasses, and in that said second element is adapted to be alternatively inserted into and removed from a corresponding seat of one of the temples.