Shaded Forge Goggles: Ventilated Eye Cups with a Coloured and a Clear Lens (Tully, US 1,679,105)

Molten metal and glass give off a strong glare, and goggles worn over hot work steam up. George L. Tully and Solomon Lacasse of the American Optical Company (filed 1927, US 1,679,105) made goggles for welders and "those employed in handling molten metal, glass and similar products": hard-rubber or Bakelite eye cups with a coloured inner lens against the glare and a cheap clear outer lens that is easily replaced, held apart by a crimped spring under a bayonet cap. Slots let air through between the lenses and inside the cup, so the lenses do not steam up. This rung turns the eye cups from ebonite, cuts the lenses and assembles the goggles. Not given: any size, the metal of the cap, spring and chain, the band's material and the shade of the coloured glass. Source: G. L. Tully and S. Lacasse, US 1,679,105 (1928). Picture: the patent's Figs. 1-4.