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US20070033715A1
US20070033715A1 US11/408,871 US40887106A US2007033715A1 US 20070033715 A1 US20070033715 A1 US 20070033715A1 US 40887106 A US40887106 A US 40887106A US 2007033715 A1 US2007033715 A1 US 2007033715A1
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Gerhard Paasche
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A42—HEADWEAR
    • A42B—HATS; HEAD COVERINGS
    • A42B3/00—Helmets; Helmet covers ; Other protective head coverings
    • A42B3/04—Parts, details or accessories of helmets
    • A42B3/10—Linings
    • A42B3/14—Suspension devices
    • A42B3/142—Suspension devices with restraining or stabilizing means, e.g. nape straps

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  • This invention relates to a rear-sector helmet suspension which takes the form of a distinctly characterized, special-purpose improvement over a predecessor suspension described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,681,409 B2.
  • the information content of that patent is, accordingly, incorporated herein by reference for the purpose of providing useful background information in relation to understanding the offerings of the present invention.
  • the present invention more particularly constitutes, in relation to the suspension described in the above-mentioned '409 patent, a special-case improvement regarding smaller-version suspension inserts for use in the shells of certain kinds of helmets, such as military helmets, wherein it is, for various reasons, desirable to provide an independent, helmet-shell-attached suspension for the rear ends only of lateral straps that form part of a military helmet chin-strap system, without also providing a special independent suspension for the front ends of those same straps.
  • the referenced prior patent devotes attention to a situation where a full, wrap-around (larger-version) internal helmet-shell suspension is desired, not only to accommodate the rear ends of elongate, lateral chin-strap elements, but also to handle the front ends of those same straps.
  • the present invention by way of contrast, focuses attention on providing a special-purpose, rear-sector-only chin-strap accommodating suspension.
  • the present invention relates to a bendable and resilient suspension which is deployed (when in use) curving around only the rear sector of a helmet-shell interior.
  • This special-purpose suspension includes, as will be seen, plural, unique, orthogonally related, “universal”, mounting-accommodating, elongate slots, referred to as affixing sites, that are designed with positions and lengths which especially accommodate correctly positionable mounting, on a one-to-one basis, of the suspension of the invention with respect to a conventional variety of already in-place (conventional) helmet-suspension mounting/attachment sites (typically throughbores) provided in the shells of helmets of various sizes.
  • This universal quality of the invention allows the same to be installed as a retrofit structure in a very wide variety of different types of helmets' shells, without requiring any additional helmet-shell preparation before such installing can take place.
  • FIG. 1 provides a very simplified and fragmentary front view of a military helmet whose shell has been equipped with a preferred and best mode embodiment of the rear-sector suspension of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 presents a simplified and schematic, downwardly looking plan view of the helmet shell (represented, at least partially, as a generally ovate, dash-dot-line outline) of FIG. 1 , generally showing the rear-sector arc of this shell fitted compatibly with the central band, or armature, which forms part of the suspension of FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 3 shows an isolated and developed view of the rear-sector suspension of the invention, per se.
  • FIG. 4 provides representative, schematic illustrations of different, typical, conventional patterns of host attachment sites that are made available in a typical range, such as a user-defined range, of helmet-shell sizes.
  • this figure shows how the embodiment of the invention pictured herein can utilize those different site-arrangement patterns quite easily, with affixing-site elongate slots, or apertures, which are formed in the suspension of the invention effectively “lining up” on a one-to-one basis with attachment-site throughbores furnished in a range of sizes of helmet shells.
  • FIG. 5 provides a developed view showing the operative (connective) relationship which is intended to exist between the rear-sector suspension of this invention and two lateral, or side, elements of a typical helmet chin-strap harness, such as the chin-strap harness pictured in FIG. 1 .
  • the suspension and harness are shown isolated from any helmet shell, and properly positionally disposed adjacent one another, but in an un-interconnected state.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates an alternative version of the invention.
  • Suspension 10 includes (a) an elongate, slightly curved, central band, or armature, 10 a, with a curved long axis 10 A, (b) a pair of upwardly and centrally disposed, laterally spaced, elongate, document-holding (article-retaining) spring fingers, or spring-finger structure, 10 b which extend upwardly about 21 ⁇ 2-inches, and which are formed integrally with armature 10 a, (c) a pair of slightly more widely spaced, downwardly extending, elongate, reversely-bent (and thus nominally horizontal loop-forming) chin-strap, attaching-device holders 10 c which are also formed integrally with armature 10 a, (d) a central, elongate, upright slot 10 d
  • Slot 10 d which herein has a length of about 7 ⁇ 8-inches, is referred to as a “central, position-locating guest-affixing site”.
  • Slots 10 e and 10 f each of which herein has a length also of about 7 ⁇ 8-inches, are referred to herein as “other guest-affixing sites”, with these “other” slots having their long axes oriented generally orthogonally relative to the long axis of “central” slot 10 d.
  • these “guest” sites are referred to as anchor-accommodating sites.
  • the center-to-center spacing between slots 10 e is about 8-inches, and that between slightly more closely spaced slots 10 f is about 71 ⁇ 2-inches.
  • Armature 10 a and its thus-associated other structures are preferably formed from an appropriate, resilient plastic material, such as the fiberglass reinforced polyamide plastic material sold under the trademark Pennite®, made by Penn Fibre Plastics, Inc. in Bensalem, Pa., and having a preferred thickness of about 0.060-inches.
  • an appropriate, resilient plastic material such as the fiberglass reinforced polyamide plastic material sold under the trademark Pennite®, made by Penn Fibre Plastics, Inc. in Bensalem, Pa., and having a preferred thickness of about 0.060-inches.
  • suspension 10 is shown mounted in place at, and in a bent and curved condition along, the rear-sector region 12 b of the shell 12 a in a conventional military helmet 12 .
  • Attachment between suspension 10 and the usually prepared attaching sites (typically throughbores) in shell 12 a is established both through slot 10 d, and, depending on the particular conventional style of this shell, and the specific prepared locations (pattern) therein of rear, laterally-spaced throughbores, additionally either through bilaterally symmetrically spaced paired slots 10 e, or alternatively through likewise symmetrically spaced paired slots 10 f.
  • FIG. 4 shows how these slots “universally” align on a one-to-one basis (i.e., one slot/aperture per throughbore) with different conventional and relatively common patterns of attachment throughbores in the near sectors within a range of helmet-shell sizes.
  • a one-to-one basis i.e., one slot/aperture per throughbore
  • FIG. 4 shows how these slots “universally” align on a one-to-one basis (i.e., one slot/aperture per throughbore) with different conventional and relatively common patterns of attachment throughbores in the near sectors within a range of helmet-shell sizes.
  • FIGS. 1 and 5 Attachability and attachment of a chin-strap harness with respect to suspension 10 is illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 5 .
  • FIG. 1 Indicated generally in thin-line, schematic character at 14 in FIG. 1 is such a harness which includes lateral strap elements 14 a, 14 b, the rear ends of which are secured to suspension 10 through suitably attached conventional hardware 13 and the generally horizontal loops (not specifically shown) formed, as mentioned earlier hereinabove, in the reverse bends existing in attaching-device holders 10 c in suspension 10 .
  • a conventional, generally horizontal nape pad is shown fragmentarily at 15 in FIG. 1 . This nape pad extends laterally between, and somewhat below, hardware 13 .
  • FIG. 5 further illustrates suspension 10 depicted in a condition ready for attachment to the rear ends of strap elements 14 a, 14 b in harness 14 .
  • FIG. 6 a modified form of the invention is illustrated wherein slot 10 d is not necessarily employed or included, and with respect to which rear, central attachment of the suspension to the inside of a helmet shell is accommodated by conventional, two-sided hook-and-pile fastening structure, such as that shown generally at 16 .
  • One side of structure 16 is affixed appropriately centrally to helmet-shell rear-sector 12 b, and the other side is affixed appropriately to the rear central portion of suspension armature 10 a.
  • the location in suspension 10 where the mentioned “one” side of structure 10 is affixed is referred to herein as a longitudinally central, position-locating guest affixing site, and the facing location in the rear sector of helmet shell 12 a where the mentioned “other” side of structure 16 is affixed is referred to as a central locating host attachment site.
  • the invention thus proposes a unique rear-sector helmet shell suspension structure which easily and “universally” fits into place in a range of different helmet-shell sizes.
  • the several attaching slots including the central “guest affixing site”, and the other “guest affixing sites”) slots 10 d, 10 e and 10 f have been sized and located in such a fashion that suspension 10 is readily retrofit, or originally fit, into the shells of a relatively wide variety of helmets, such as in military helmet shell 12 a, without requiring any modification of such a shell.
  • the suspension of this invention readily accommodates easy and convenient attachment to it of the rear ends of the usual lateral strap elements in a helmet chin-strap harness.
  • the proposed suspension is quite simple and inexpensive in construction, and may, of course, and as suggested above, be included either as original helmet-shell equipment, or introduced later as retrofit equipment.

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US6449776B1 (en) * 2001-02-15 2002-09-17 Bell Sports, Inc. Removable mounting bracket for expanded plastic foam articles
US20030106138A1 (en) * 2000-01-28 2003-06-12 Louis Guay Device for adjusting head band for protective helmet
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US3714668A (en) * 1971-02-11 1973-02-06 Angelica Corp Protective helmet
US3897596A (en) * 1974-08-26 1975-08-05 Gentex Corp Protective helmet
US5042093A (en) * 1988-10-21 1991-08-27 Comasec International Sa Headgear including an adjustable coif
US5093936A (en) * 1990-11-20 1992-03-10 Itech Sport Products Inc. Protective headgear and detachable face protector
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US20030106138A1 (en) * 2000-01-28 2003-06-12 Louis Guay Device for adjusting head band for protective helmet
US6449776B1 (en) * 2001-02-15 2002-09-17 Bell Sports, Inc. Removable mounting bracket for expanded plastic foam articles
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US20110107500A1 (en) * 2009-11-12 2011-05-12 Devra Wathen Headgear for protection against environmental effects

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