Eyeglasses with counterbalanced temple pieces

Claim 1

In a pair of eyeglasses having a pair of lenses, a frame for the lenses, nosepieces disposed between the lenses and adapted to rest on the bridge of the nose of the wearer, and a pair of temple pieces extending from the frame rearwardly and over the ears of the wearer and terminating in hook members, the improvement wherein the said temple pieces are substantially rigid, said hook members are substantially rigid, and including means releasably carried by said hook members and extending rearwardly therefrom and divergent from said hook members for weighting said hook members rearwardly of the ears of the wearer, the arrangement being such that the ears of the wearer act as the fulcrum for said means for weighting to counterbalance the weight of the said lenses and the said frame said releasable means for weighting including a channel defined by a pair of leg members spaced apart from and confronting each other, said spacing apart defining said channel of normal width slightly less than the width of a said hook member, said leg members being resiliently yieldable away from each other to an extent defining a channel width permitting said legs to extend over and along opposed sides of said hook member in resilient retention thereon, and a quantity of heavy material relative to the weight of the temple piece integrally connected to said channel and positioned rearwardly thereof.