Swimming goggles comprising first and second frame sections each having a peripheral flange adapted to effect a water tight seal with the face of a wearer, two transparent face plates and two transparent top members located above the face plates. The two frame sections are flexibly connected to one another. Both the face plates and the top members are sealingly secured in the frame sections. Each face plate is adapted to cover an eye of the wearer. The face plates extend in a plane substantially perpendicular to a normal line of vision. The top members each have planar top and bottom surfaces with each of the top surfaces extending at a substantial angle not exceeding 90 degrees to the plane of the face plates. The top members act to refract incoming light striking the top surfaces thereof. The wearer is thus able to see horizontally an object in front of the wearer while he is swimming with his head facing downwardly. An anti-reflection coating can cover the bottom surface of each top member.
Optical viewing glasses incorporate a visor positioned at the brow line or a wearer above the normal viewing field from which a pair of prisms depend without additional supporting structure thereby allowing the wearer to have a redirected field of vision while retaining peripheral viewing fields.
A pair of spectacles for providing a redirected view includes a visor configured to support a pair of triangular optical prisms attached to the bottom surface of the visor in front of a wearer's eyes. The prisms provide an internally reflected and refracted path approximately normal to the forward vision allowing the wearer to view scenes without head or body reorientation. The visor and the prisms are oriented at an angle of 5 to 15 degrees below horizontal, as defined by the spectacles' handle portion, to position the prisms at an optimal viewing angle to enhance wearer comfort. The prisms are made wide and spaced close together to provide a panoramic perspective, with the inside lower corner radiused to provide room for a wearer's nose. Tinted and/or corrective lenses are removeably coupled to the spectacles so the lenses are in the vision path through the prisms.
The present invention concerns embodiments of swim goggles. In one embodiment, the goggles include a pair of eyepieces that are not interconnected by a nose piece or a head strap. Each eyepiece includes a transparent lens portion that covers an eye and a peripheral frame portion surrounding a respective lens portion. The frame portion of each eyepiece has a posterior surface that carries an adhesive layer (e.g., a layer of adhesive tape) for adhesively securing the eyepiece to the skin adjacent the eyes. In another embodiment, the eyepieces can be interconnected by a nose piece and a head strap. The lens portion of each eyepiece includes a flat, anterior lens and a flat, side lens that is connected to a temporal edge of the anterior lens and is inclined away from the anterior lens to reduce hydrodynamic drag and optical distortion.
