Spectacles for giving two-dimentional television or motion pictures three-dimensional appearance

Claim 2

Spectacles for giving a two-dimensional motion picture or television picture a three-dimensional appearance when worn in front of a wear's left and right eyes, said spectacles comprising a frame means for supporting a pair of lenses including a left lens and a right lens, means for shifting the image of the picture projected through the left lens to the right and the image of the picture projected through the right lens to the left, said image shifting means including a pair of refracting lenses including a left refracting lens and a right refracting lens, having respective first vertical axes located in the respective planes of said left and right refracting lenses, mounted on said frame means, for pivotal movement around said respective vertical axes and means, mounted to said frame means, for pivoting said pair of refracting lenses through equal angles around said respective vertical axes in opposite directions.

Claim 3

Spectacles as in claim 1 in which said frame means in a spectacle frame having two apertures therein for accomodating said pair of refracting lenses, and said spectacles further comprise lens frames in which said pair of refracting lenses are mounted and pins on the top and bottom of said lens frame pivotally mounted in said spectacle frame for pivotally supporting said lens frames in said spectacle frame, and said pivoting means comprising turning means, connected to the respective pins, for turning said pins for turning said pair of refracting lenses, and adjusting means, accessible to the wearer of the spectacles and connected to said turning means, for actuating said turning means.

Claim 4

Spectacles as in claim 2 in which said turning means comprises arms fixedly mounted on said pins with ends toward the center of the spectacle frame, each arm having a toothed wheel portion on the end toward the center of the spectacle frame and in spaced opposed relationship to the toothed wheel portion on the other arm; and a pair of toothed wheels rotatably mounted for rotation about second vertical axes on said spectacle frame between the ends of said arms having the toothed wheel portions thereon, said toothed wheels being meshed with each other, one being meshed with the toothed wheel portion on one arm and the other being meshed with the toothed wheel portion on the other arm; said adjusting means comprising an adjusting head pivotally mounted on said spectacle frame having a serrated end engagable by the finger of a wearer of the spectacles and having the other end engaged with the other end of one of said arms for pivoting said one of said arms when said head is pivoted.

Claim 5

Spectacles as claimed in claim 3 further comprising means for limiting the pivotal movement of said adjusting head for limiting the pivotal movement of said pair of refracting lenses.

Claim 6

Spectacles as claimed in claim 2, 3, or 4 further comprising bows hinged to said frame means.

Claim 7

Spectacles as claimed in claim 2, 3, or 4 further comprising clip means on said frame means for clipping said spectacles to conventional spectacles.