Virtually indestructible, the Daywolf® Septentrials feature patented, double-hinged arms adjustable to fit nearly any head size. Daywolf® ravages innovations of the past, reviving eyewear embodied in the majesty of metal.
Die cast at 2,000 degrees, the Daywolf® Septentrials are formed from a seven-piece bolted Titanium frame with six vulcanized thermoplastic color-coordinated alloy pads. The Daywolf® Septentrials include highly-organic, vented surfacing contoured using the newest technologies to minimize air currents which cause watery eyes during high-speed sporting activities like skiing, motorcycling and boating. The eyewear is designed to flex at its arm connection points (rather than through the nose bridge) to keep the angle of the lenses relevative to the surface of any wearers' eyes static. Each sunglass arm features a second hinge - rearward of the first - having a jack screw adjustable to vary the width of the glasses and accomodate different sized heads. This adjustability likewise gives users control over the compressive force the glasses add to the head, allowing a user to increase this applied force to keep the glasses more securely in place during athletic activities. The terminal ends of each arm are apertured to allow fixation of a retaining chain or cord which circumscribes the head and allows the eyewear to hang from a user's neck. This also permits the eyewear to be detachably affixed to floats if desired to keep the glasses from sinking in water.
The lens grooves in the eyewear are designed to accomodate lenses up to 2.2 mm thick; stronger than lenses found in other sunglasses.
Daywolf, LLC, the manufacturer and designer of all Daywolf products, is a private U.S. company founded and owned entirely by U.S. citizens, with its principal place of business in the Mountain West. All Daywolf products are designed by American inventors. All design, marketing, distribution, assembly and some manfucturing operations take place in the U.S., with other manufacturing operations done overseas. Please see our contact us page for more information.
The creators of Daywolf had one goal in mind when creating the Septentrials: to develop the most durable, highest precision, most artfully crafted Titanium eyewear production ever to reach the market. Succeeding in this aim, customers of Daywolf can expect an everlasting, sytlized piece; built to tolerances of less than one thousandth of an inch; available in a variety of anodized or plated frame finishes, lense colors, and pad colors (polarized and non-polarized). Two-tone frame variations are available, including black-gold and black-chrome combinations, allowing further customization.
Metal alloy and titanium eyewear in which the eyewires are affixed to a nose bridge has suffered from a number of weaknesses and inefficiencies in the past. Firstly, the axial force or torque applied to nose bridge is high from tensile force applied by both sides a wearer’s head to the open arms. The arms act as levers with the nose bridge as fulcrum, the nose bridge becoming the leverage point where pressure is the most concentrated. For this reason, tabs inserting from the eyewires into the nose bridge in limited spacing conditions weaken and break over time. Some manufacturers have attempted to insert polymeric pads into the nose bridge along side the tabs to absorb pressure and allow the sunglasses to flex to accommodate varying size heads. These pads reduce the thickness available in tab design within the nose bridge, causing weak tabs to be used which bend, break and deform. The polymeric pads compress over time, causing the nose bridge to become rickety (or have play) between the eyewires and the tabs, the pads also causing the natural sunglasses fit to expand, reducing optimal fit. To prevent the ricketiness, very low tolerances are needed between the tabs and recess in which the tabs position. These tolerances have been difficult to achieve using traditional manufacturing processes. Even when the tolerances are low, ricketiness still occurs as components weaken, bow, and flex over time. There has been no solution known in the art. Traditional nose bridge tabs have not been easily interchangeable/detachable, nor attachment mechanisms adjustable.
The creators of Daywolf had one goal in mind when creating the Septentrials: to develop the most durable, highest precision, most artfully crafted Titanium eyewear production ever to reach the market. Succeeding in this aim, customers of Daywolf can expect an everlasting, sytlized piece; built to tolerances of less than one thousandth of an inch; available in a variety of anodized or plated frame colors, lense colors, and pad colors (polarized and non-polarized). Two-tone frame variations are available, including black-gold and black-chrome combinations, allowing further customization.
More expensive eyewear often fabricated from metal and metal alloys, have made more common usage of separately manufactured nose bridges than polymeric eyewear. Consumers of high end eyewear prefer that precision eyewear not be manufactured as a single integrated, but rather that the consumer be able to detach, adjust and replace scratched, bent or worn components in the sunglass assemblies. The lenses are sometimes permanently sealed inside the frames in cheaper eyewear. Cheaper eyewire is known to break easily or be so lightly fitting that is distorts and blows from user’s face with even light impact or in high wind conditions (such as those experienced boating, skiing, snowmobiling, motorcycling, and the like). These cheaper glasses are not made of strong enough materials to assert sufficient grip on a wearer’s head to stay in place without breaking.
DAYWOLF PUBLIC DOMAIN LENS SIZING STANDARDS
Mission Statement (August 24, 2018): Daywolf intends to introduce universal public domain standards for lens sizing with the intention that these standards be adopted by the sunglass industry as a whole and lens sizes standardized in all future eyewear. It is Daywolf's belief that the almost infinite number of lens sizes in the market, all custom fit for only one model of glasses, stifles competition, reduces sales, and results in long term harm to buyers who are uncertain if replacement lenses will be available over time for those model sunglasses the buyers are purchasing. For this reason, Daywolf has undertaken a study of the median lens sizes for various popular styles of glasses and will be posting public domain recommendations here, including numerous standards for Aviator sunglasses and other styles. Daywolf believes that if lens sizes are standardized and categorized by style (as other tools like Allen wrenches, shoes, belts, etcetera) that the industry as a whole will benefit and that manufacturers will come under pressure to conform to the standards despite some manufacturers' desire to make their own models functionally obsolete to increase long term sales. This will contribute to demonopolization of the sunglass industry by alleviating consumer concern that replacement lenses for smaller manufacturers entering the market will become unavailable. Such standards will ensure replacement lenses are permanently available to any eyewear buyer and drastically increase the availability of lens colors and options to buyers. It will also improve the industry overall by reducing the pressure on manfucturers to also manufacture lenses, and allow sunglass manufacturers to focus on sunglass or lens quality rather than both. Such standards will also make computer-aided sungalss design much easier for all manufacturers as standardized virtual lens blanks will be available for eyewire/orbital CAD incorporation. Daywolf intends to introduce these CAD files here online for free download into the public domain and encourage use by all. Daywolf is also seeking sizing recommendations and input from other designers in proposing lens standards.
U.S. Patent 9,759,929. U.S. Patent D828,438. Patent Pending U.S. 15/965,674. Patent Pending U.S. 15/965,917. International Industrial Design/Patent Pending. U.S. Trademark Reg. No. 5,522,941. Utah State Registered Trademark No. 10675151-0190. U.S. Trademark Reg. No. 5,522,941. DAYWOLF® is a trademark of Daywolf, LLC. SEPTENTRIAL™, FACE THE DAY™, IN SUNLIGHT RUN™, TRYST WITH LIGHT™, and AT ONE WITH THE RISING SUN™ are trademarks of Daywolf, LLC. Copyright 2018. All rights reserved.