Patent ID: 7916406

Claim:
A magnifying assembly, the magnifying assembly comprising: a housing comprising: a frame to which a magnifying lens is secured; and a battery compartment; a cover assembly, wherein the cover assembly comprises a plate with a slot communicating with protrusion and wherein the cover assembly is slidable linearly along the housing; wherein the cover assembly is slidable linearly relative to the housing in a first direction so as to cover at least part of the magnifying lens and slidable linearly relative to the housing in a second direction so as to expose the magnifying lens; wherein the distance between the battery compartment relative to the magnifying lens remains the same regardless of whether the cover assembly slides linearly relative to the housing in the first direction so as to cover at least part of the magnifying lens or slides linearly relative to the housing in the second direction so as to expose the magnifying lens; and wherein an overall length and width of the magnifying assembly does not increase when the cover assembly slides from a position where the cover assembly is covering at least part of the magnifying lens to a position so as to expose the magnifying lens.