Patent ID: 8819862

Claim:
In combination with a visor and a pair of eyeglasses in which the eyeglasses frame a pair of spaced apart lenses, the eyeglasses having a bridge portion which forms a span between the lenses, the span generally increasing in length towards the bridge portion's upper edge, and wherein the visor, which is generally bilaterally symmetrical, defines a mid-section with a back edge, (a) a hinge with a pivot axis which is disposed proximate with the bridge portion's upper edge, the hinge rotatably connecting the visor to the eyeglasses frame and having separable first and second sets of hinge elements, the hinge elements of the first set being affixed to the visor's mid-section; (b) a bridge piece affixed to the eyeglasses bridge portion, the hinge elements of the second set being mounted on the bridge piece; (c) means, including a flange affixed to the visor's mid-section and cantilevered rearwardly therefrom, for limiting the visor's upward rotation about the pivot axis, the flange abutting the bridge portion once the visor reaches the upper limit of its travel; and (d) wherein the hinge elements of the first and second sets, in assembled relation, are interconnected in such a way that the visor can be rotated downwardly about the pivot axis.