Clamp assembly set for attaching a variety of optical devices to eyeglasses

US5448318A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• HEINE Optotechnik GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Helmut A. Heine
• Gerhard Gugel · Sulz am Neckar, DE
• Otto H. Schmidt · Herrsching am Ammersee, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 10, 1994
• Grant date: Sep 5, 1995
• Expiry date: Feb 10, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02C2200/02
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A clamp assembly comprises a clamp (12) having two levers (1, 2) linked at middle areas thereof with first ends thereof closing together to form clamping jaws (5, 6) and second, opposite, ends thereof formed as opening grips (3, 4) for separating the clamping jaws, which are spring loaded toward one another. The clamping jaws (5, 6) have forked shapes. The branches of the forks, and the ends thereof, are arranged to be spaced from one another so that they extend across, or extend over, a bridge of a pair of eyeglasses to be placed on inner, upper edges of spectacle glasses (13) or on an eyeglass frame (14). A first lever (2) of the clamp (12) has thereon a clamp coupling element (10, 19, 22, 24) for being selectively attached to, and selectively detached from, an optical-device coupling element (18, 20, 23, 25) on an optical device. The clamp assembly makes possible an easy and quick exchange of optical devices to be attached thereto.