Patent ID: 7165838

Claim:
Tensioning eyewear comprising in combination: a pair of truncated temple members which do not hook over the ears and rest at the temples and each having C-shaped female slit sockets and longitudinally extending gaps grooves disposed at a predetermine angle atop said truncated temple members; and a pair of frame members each carrying lens and each having c-shaped female slit sockets and longitudinally extending gaps groves disposed at a predetermine angle atop said pair of frame members; and a bridge hinge assembly which pivots and connects said pair of frame members at the bridge; and a pair of temple hinge assemblies which pivot and connects said pair of frame members to said pair of truncated temple members; and expandable elastic and padded band members adhesively arrange and secured to the inner sides of the said pair of frame members and said temple members, wherein said band members provide force close tensioning recess position and open expanded tensioning position of the said eyewear; and expandable elastic and padded band members comprising integral connecting portions disposed at the end of the said expandable elastic and padded band members, said connecting portions having neck portions and complimentary enlarged head portions connected at the end of the said neck portions, said neck and head portion are sized and shaped to be slidably received within the said frame and temple members c-shaped female slit sockets and longitudinally extending gaps grooves for forming an interlocked edge-standing relationship with said frame and temple members.