Patent ID: 8335044

Claim:
An illumination and magnification system comprising: a housing having a handle section and an operational section; the handle section having front and rear faces, parallel upper and lower edges, and interior and exterior edges, the rear face being open to form a chamber, a cover for the chamber, a small aperture in the handle section; the operational section having a front face and a rear face and arcuate concentric upper and lower edges and interior and exterior edges, the interior edge of the operational section being integrally formed with the interior edge of the handle section to position the handle section and the operational section laterally spaced from each other, the operational section being formed with a large aperture; a transparent, partially-cylindrical magnifying glass located within and filling the large aperture; a light positioned in the rear face of the operational section; a battery located within the chamber for the powering of the light; a small aperture formed in the rear face of the handle section; an on/off button extending through the small aperture, wires coupling the light and the battery and button to selectively illuminate the light when the button is pushed and held and to terminate the illumination when the button is released; and data to be read, the data being located at a distance from the magnifying glass, the data having a radius of curvature less than the radius of curvature of the magnifying glass, the data having an axis of rotation parallel with the axis of rotation of the magnifying glass, the data being on medicine container labels and medication instructions including syringes, prescription medications, over the counter medications and the like.