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Various embodiments of energy absorbing, protective helmets constructed of resilient foam means covered with a tough, pliable surface coating. The helmets are adapted to be worn on a person's head and have openings therein generally conforming to a person's eyes, ears, nose, mouth and chin. In modifications...     

A flip-up visor assembly for a protective sport helmet or the like, in which a band secured at spaced points along the length and intermediate the ends thereof across the brow portion of a helmet with resilient pads disposed between the free band ends and the outer surface of the helmet to accommodate...     

A ball type umbrella covering the head and extending below the top of the shoulder line being held in place by a draw string arrangement. The umbrella device is double layered with means of inflation thereof providing optional inflating means at two points within and without the device. The two layers...     

A protective garment for use with a body exhaust helmet has a hood adapted to cover the head of a wearer and the hood is provided with a fenestration in the vicinity of the eyes of the wearer. A transparent plastic sheet is secured around the periphery of the inside of the fenestration and tabs extend...     

Various embodiments of energy absorbing, protective helmets constructed of resilient foam means covered with a tough, pliable surface coating. The helmets are adapted to be worn on a person's head and have openings therein generally conforming to a perso's eyes, ears, nose, mouth and chin. In modifications...     

A full face safety helmet comprises a helmet portion, of the usual, generally part spherical form adapted to cover and protect the wearer's skull, and a chin guard member in the form of a closed loop of impact resistant material. The chin guard member has inwardly inclined side walls, and the bottom...     

A protective head-wear including a shell or helmet-like member for protecting the head of a wearer and a face shield of the full face protective type. The face shield may be constructed of a transparent member such as a solid clear plastic or alternatively of wire mesh. In either event, about the peripheral...     

Various embodiments of energy absorbing, protective helmets constructed of resilient foam means covered with a tough, pliable surface coating. The helmets are adapted to be worn on a person's head and have openings therein generally conforming to a person's eyes, ears, nose, mouth and chin. In modifications...     

A clear window shield for protective helmets, especially for the users of motor vehicles, whereby the window shield is detachably connected with the protective helmet and is made of laminated glass, which extends over the entire field of vision of the window shield; the window shield abuts indirectly...     

A system for preventing boxers from becoming discouraged by the force of blows received before they develop boxing technique to minimize the impact of blows, includes inflatable head gear with openings matched in proportion to the size of inflatable gloves, both headgear and gloves having additional...     

A respirator is sealed at its sides to the face of a wearer by seals or air flow restricting members comprising a multiplicity of bristles. The length of the bristles is chosen so that they are deflected to lie at their free ends against the wearer's face. The length resilience and packing density of...     

A safety helmet has a plurality of air vents formed therein in mutually spaced relation. A face shield is affixed to the helmet and has a plurality of air vents formed therein in mutually spaced relation.

A replaceable visor which is particularly usable with the headgear of a protective garment which includes a transparent member held in place by the protective garment in front of the eyes of the wearer, the transparent member including an inner and outer frame member secured to the inner and outer side...     

The mounting for a visor of a helmet comprises an arcuate track located at the side of the rigid headshell and centered on the visor axis, a shoe connected with the visor and movable along the track, a control element for moving the shoe and hence the visor and means for clamping the shoe to the track....     

A laceless boxing headguard having a front panel, side panels including ear protectors extending from each side of the front panel, a wide band of elastic extending across the rear of the headguard between and connecting the rear edges of the side panels, and inelastic adjustable belt also extending...     

A device constructed of flexible, compressible material, like foam rubber, which is affixed between a crash helmet, as used by motorcycle, motorbike and similar vehicle riders, and a transparent face shield rigidly fixed thereto and contoured to cover substantially the entire face of the wearer. The...     

There is described a non-articulated children's mask capable of performing functions in keeping with the fantasy and science fiction creatures now present in books, television and movies. One such function is the ability to see simultaneously both forward and reverse. This is accomplished with the use...     

A combination sports helmet and face mask construction is disclosed in which a mask of grid-like configuration having a peripheral base portion is attached to the helmet in a novel manner. In one embodiment of the invention, the attachment means includes a plurality of spaced blocks each including a...     

The helmet, at its face opening, is provided with a peripheral abutment in which the edge of a transparent shield is housed, such that the visor when closed is flush with the surface of the helmet. Such shield is connected to the helmet structure by articulation members which are connected to members...     

A halogenoacetyl group is removed from a halogenoacetyl amino compound in a short period of reaction time by reacting the halogenoacetyl amino compound with an N-substituted dithiocarbamic acid or a salt thereof.

In this helmet, the shield has a lower notch adapted to rest on the nose of the user and is connected by an elastically yieldable connection to a support which is pivotally mounted on the outer shell of the helmet. This connection biases the shield inwardly of the helmet. The shield in this way adapts...     

Crash-helmet in the form of a bell-shaped hood with a visor covering the field of view and arranged above a chin guard, characterized in that the hood consists of at least two swivelling parts connected by means of a hinge arrangement and which can be interlocked by safety locking devices on the abutting...     

An adjustable wind shield for a helmet is shiftable between selected positions in which it is held, all in response to rotary pivoting of the shield.

A motor cyclist's helmet has a visor apertured at either side so that it can pivot on pivots projecting from the helmet. At one side, the aperture in the visor is elongate so that this side of the visor can be pushed forward, the visor being slightly deformed outwardly. A pin projecting from the helmet...     

Disclosed is a personnel protective apparatus which includes a helmet and a full face shield attachable to the helmet. The helmet includes a facial opening having a resilient edge roll thereabout. The face shield has a resilient seal bonded thereto which includes a face sealing portion adapted to form...     

A protective helmet for persons with severe mental or motor disabilities is disclosed. The helmet includes padded front, side, front chin and under chin pieces. Alternate embodiments include a reinforced face frame and, most importantly, a removable lightweight transparent face cover. The underchin area...     

A protective headgear comprising a helmet and a face mask of flexible material secured to the helmet. When a force capable of causing injury to the headgear wearer is applied to the face mask, the mask deflects to a significant degree, without fracturing, with respect to the helmet. The deflection may...     

A face shield for a helmet comprising a curved panel, at least a portion of which is transparent, for use in an overlying relationship to the face of the user and a V-shaped groove extending upwardly and rearwardly about the face shield from a point near the bottom of the front of the face shield whereby...     

A grid-type face guard is attached to a football helmet by means of forehead spring clips and side spring clips. Forehead spring clips include means for preventing any downward movement of face guard in the event of a blow toward face guard. With this construction, the face guard will detach by a slight...     

Shock absorbing mounts for the face guard of a helmet having a substantially rigid shell and being connected to the shell allow substantial movements of the face guard relative to the helmet shell in response to forceful blows on the face guard. The mount protects the head of the wearer of the helmet...     

Herein is a disclosed a transparent safety visor which may be retrofitted to protective hardhat helmets. Such helmets typically consist of an inverted bowl defining a number of key receptor sites at intervals around its interior circumference, and a liner cap including a central crown and a number of...     

An adapter, for adapting an accessory fitting for various size pockets at the margin of protective helmets, has two tapering end walls and front and rear side walls, extending from opposite ends of the end walls, overlapping each other about midway thereof. The front wall is provided with an opening...     

A head cover and safety helmet having detachable ventilating means, and removable filter collar. The head cover, or shell, is formed of rigid material, having a face opening with a primary transparent shield yieldably mounted thereon, and multiple secondary transparent shields yieldably mounted on the...     

A face shield for a helmet comprising a shield body member for removable attachment to the helmet and having an aperture for free vision of the wearer, a replaceable transparent face shield having a shape substantially similar to the aperture and means for removably attaching the transparent panel to...     

A ballistic helmet for use by bomb disposal personnel which includes a covering of soft ballistic nylon over a rigid polycarbonate shell. The shell is lined with semi-shock attenuating foam and is designed to cover the entire head. A transparent visor in the front of the helmet can easily be removed...     

A visor attachment for a helmet shield includes a flexible polymer visor shaped to be attached to one edge portion of a helmet shield. The visor has a visor bill portion and a support portion. The support portion has an arcuate support portion shaped to follow the contour of a shield when flexed thereabout....     

An assembly is provided for use in securing a secondary unit, such as a welder's mask or the like, to a primary unit, such as a protective helmet often referred to as a hard hat. The secondary unit is mounted for adjustment between operative and inoperative modes relative to the primary unit. The primary...     

A snap on shield for a helmet is formed with a transparent surface of a predetermined shape to fit onto a helmet to protect the face of a wearer. The shield is injection molded of a polymer material having a molded female center snap portion for engaging a male snap portion on a helmet and a female polymer...     

A helmet having a shell and a face shield for closing an opening of the shell and equipped with a ventilator for ventilating the space between the face shield and the face of the wearer of the helmet. The air flowing into or out of the space for ventilation forms a stream along the inner surface of the...     

A visor for a protective helmet, the visor comprising at least one transparent panel and a frame which receives substantially the entire periphery of the panel in a groove, recess, or the like carried by the frame in a manner which permits rapid changing of the transparent panel. The frame comprises...     

A helmet principally for use with motorcycles and the like having vent openings on the front thereof. The vent openings are positioned within ram cavities formed between the visor and adjacent guide plates. Passageways extend through attachment mechanisms holding the visor to the helmet. Channels extend...     

A safety helmet exhibits, in the zone of the longitudinal line of symmetry of its chin protector, an upwardly projecting rubber-elastic material air duct member comprising a sealing lip. This sealing lip extends past the contact area of the visor on the chin protector to such an extent that the chin...     

A riot faceshield assembly is provided which can be utilized with a wide range of protective helmet designs and sizes, which provides a positive sealing relationship between the faceshield and the front brim of the helmet, which may be pivoted into and conveniently locked in the protective position,...     

A protective helmet, e.g. a motorcycle helmet has a chinpiece below its visor which defines an air passage with a member behind this chinpiece, permitting air to flow from an opening in this chinpiece uniformly over the interior of a visor to prevent fogging thereof by moisture.

A cap arrangement is disclosed for sealing the space between the outer surface of a protective helmet and the upper edge of a pivotally mounted visor carried by the helmet, to prevent, for example, sawdust passing to the space on the inside of the visor during timber sawing operations. The cap arrangement...     

The protective helmet (FIG. 1) is provided in its lower part with a collar (C) formed advantageously by two segments (C.sub.1 and C.sub.2) movable with respect to each other slidably, in opposite directions along parallel horizontal guides (54-55) provided in an annular tapered crown (A.sub.1). Said...     

A cyclist's helmet incorporates a dome shaped top wall structure, opposite side wall structures, a front opening for forward viewing, a lower front wall structure which extends forwardly and a rear wall structure. It also includes: (a) a frontward facing air inlet means defined by said wall structure,...     

A helmet comprising a shell having a viewing window defined in a front portion thereof and a mouth opening defined therein below the window, a windshield detachably mounted on the shell for covering the window, and a mouth cap detachably mounted on the shell for covering the mouth opening. The face shield...     

The ergonomic helmet means according to the invention comprises a pump equipped with a control system simultaneously ensuring the supply of air to the helmet and the manipulation of the vizor. This control system has an operative position ensuring the lowering of the vizor, its maintenance in the lowered...     

A locking and release mechanism for a helmet which, on release, permits rotation of the visor in either direction. The mechanism comprises an arcuate track (23) fixed to the helmet shell (11). The visor is preferably mounted on an arm (19) rotatable about an axis transverse of the shell and connected...     

A crash helmet including a head cap and visor combined with a lower element configured substantially as a padded split ring. Said ring is attached to the rear portion of the head cap and can be deformed elastically at lateral regions thereof to define an openable entry for putting the helmet on and off.

A protective crash helmet designed to increase the safety and comfort of a motorcycle rider is described. One of the protective layers inside the helmet includes inflatable air bubbles whose pressure and consequently size may vary when connected to an outside air pressure supply. This unique feature...     

A collapsible protecting helmet with inside stuffing and closing and fastening, including two supplemental portions, one top portion and one lower portion, both of these portions are mutually joined at two pivot points and make up the collapsible protecting helmet, engagement component to secure the...     

A clip joins a face mask to a helmet, the helmet having an elongate element like a wire and the face mask having a recess in the form of an elongate slot. The clip has two similar halves integrally pivoted together and defining adjacent the pivot region a receiving cavity for the elongate element. Each...     

A football helmet having a face mask formed of a wire frame with a series of beads strung along certain wires to make it difficult for an opposing player to grab the face mask. Each bead is formed such that it can be snapped on its supporting wire.

A greenhouse helmet is provided and consists of a dome containing plants secured within the dome worn completely over the head of a person so that the person can breathe in the oxygen given off by the plants.

A motorcyclist's or bicyclist's helmet has dome shaped top wall structure, side wall structures, a front opening for forward viewing, a lower front wall structure which juts forwardly, and rear wall structure; and it also includes: (a) a frontward facing air inlet defined by the lower front wall structure,...     

An under helmet hood for aircrew which has a butyl rubber cowl (1) and, severed but in no way displaced therefrom, a face mask portion which includes a face mask (2) having a fixed vizor (3). The perfect butt joint remaining in the butyl rubber between the cowl (1) and the face mask portion is covered...     

A cyclist's helmet incorporates a dome shaped top wall structure, opposite side wall structures, a front opening for forward viewing, a lower front wall structure which extends forwardly and a rear wall structure. It also includes: (a) a frontward facing air inlet means defined by said wall structure,...     

A protective headgear comprising a helmet and a face mask of flexible material secured to the helmet. When a force capable of causing injury to the headgear wearer is applied to the face mask, the mask deflects to a significant degree, without fracturing, with respect to the helmet. The deflection may...     

A mounting system for mounting a face guard on a football helmet, wherein the face guard is able to pivot about a horizontal axis about the top portion of the helmet. The improved mounting arrangement includes a pair of straps in the form of loops which enclose wire segments of the face guard. The straps...     

A helmet device including a helmet body having an open front portion and a shielding mechanism attached to the helmet body so as to substantially shield such front portion of the helmet body. The shielding mechanism includes a see-through member permitting an outside view therethrough and a wiper mechanism...     

Rear view mirror apparatus for side mounting on the face shield or on the helmet shell of a protective helmet comprising: a mirrored surface; a module for holding the mirrored surface and having a transparent aerodynamically configured outer surface; the apparatus being adapted for attachment to the...     

A motorcyclist or bicyclist helmet has dome shaped top wall structure, side wall structures, a front opening for forward viewing, a shield covering said opening, a lower front wall structure, and rear wall structure. It also includes: (a) frontward facing air inlet defined by the front wall structure,...     

A face guard for an athletic helmet having at least one horizontal bar structure with the bar structure including a plurality of rotatable elements to inhibit gripping the bar structure by hand.

The chin piece of a helmet (A) having a visor has a horizontal channel to convey air from apertures to the interior of the helmet and, specifically, to strike the inner surface of the visor to avoid fogging of the visor. The helmet also has side intercepting elements. Each intercepting element is a rotating...     

An improved headgear conformable to the head of a wearer and capable of absorbing energy to thereby protect the wearer against blows to the head. The headgear is fabricated of foam coated with a pliable coating. The foam is shaped as a circumferential strip adapted to encompass the head of the wearer...     

A cap and goggles combination comprises a rubber cap and a face glass which covers the eyes and extends across an upper portion of the nose and cheeks. A rubber frame surrounds the circumference of the face glass, and includes a groove for securely retaining the face glass. The rubber cap covers the...     

Means for ejecting NVG's from an aircrewman's helmet during an ejection seat escape, and wherein the NVG carrier is attached to the helmet via an intermediate anchorage normally on the helmet, the intermediate anchorage being arranged for separation from the helmet, still carrying the NVG carrier, during...     

A safety helmet includes a helmet shell, at least one accessory, and at least one plug connection for connecting the accessory to the helmet shell being detachable with a given opening force, each plug connection including an elastic plug having a socket formed therein and being fixed in an opening formed...     

A face shield assembly having the upper part of both side peripheral portions or the upper part of both side peripheral portions and the upper peripheral portion in an eyepiece, abutted against the frame. The remaining parts of the eyepiece are fitted in the peripheral portion of a view window of the...     

A safety helmet has a shell with a visor movably supported on both sides. By means of a bearing pin and a control pin guided along cam surfaces, the visor can be positioned over the face opening of the helmet or swung upwardly. Detents for the pins define positions for the visor including a flush mounting...     

A ballistic face shield is provided for military use and acts to deflect penetrating bullets. Thickness is avoided by angling the orientation of the shield and by providing an explosive charge which launches the shield forwardly and upwardly when an outer layer of the shield is shattered. The shield...     

An air-feed type protective helmet includes a cap body to which a face shield is rotatably mounted for movement between a lower use position and an upper non-use position. In order to feed clean air to a space provided between the wearer's face and the face shield, a front visor portion is provided which...     

A protective headware for wrestlers which covers the top of the head and extends downwardly over a portion of the back of the head and down over the face including the nose mouth and ears and then extends under the chin of the wrestler and has an outer flush surface on each side of the head and which...     

A visor for mounting on a helmet adapted to be worn by an individual, includes a substantially transparent visor having an inner concave surface, and, with reference to an orthogonal, right-handed xyz Cartesian coordinate system of spatial reference having its origin located on the inner concave surface...     

A safety helmet comprising a shell and a chin-strap associated thereto, the one chin-strap end being rotatably mounted on a pivot fastened to the shell, the other chin-strap end being joined to the shell through a control member rotatably mounted on a pivot fastened to the shell, and so arranged as to...     

A new attachment configuration for the face mask of a football or ice hockey helmet comprising three snap-in attachments that permit detachment of the face mask with sufficient pulling or twisting movement of the mask. The snap-in attachments are configured to resist without detachment sudden impacts...     

A body-protective article comprising matched portions of a rigid, non-shattering, high-impact resistant polymer, interiorly lined with an adherent high-impact absorbing elastomer. A protective body suit may comprise a series of interconnected segments providing a unitary suit, made up of such matched...     

A safety helmet for motorcycle drivers or the like includes a helmet shell which is open at the chin of the user and has a shock-absorbing inner lining, and a folding portion which is swivelably and removably connected to the helmet shell. The folding portion forms a chin protector composed of outer...     

An acoustic headgear-sun visor assembly for use by pilots, users of Walkman-type radio and tape deck assemblies, users of noise attenuation devices and the like. The assembly comprises a headpiece including a flat band support member. A split bolt having a bifurcated shank receives the flat band support...     

A helmet has an outer shell with a front viewing opening, and a visor swingable between up and down positions. The helmet also includes structure mounting the visor to swing between such positions, and detent structure on one arm portion of a ratchet plate to retain the visor in such positions. The detent...     

A dual-visor assembly for use with a helmet such as that of an aircraft crew member in which an inner visor is releasably secured to the helmet by snap fasteners that release toward the rear of the helmet, while an outer visor is releasably secured to the helmet over the inner visor by snap fasteners...     

A protective headgear for boxing and other activities involving direct violence to the head is provided which protects the eyes from direct contact of the padded thumbs and the impacts of blows. The headgear will also provide protection from serious lacerations in critical areas above and around the...     

A transparent faceshield for protecting the face and eyes from impact and the like is detachably connected to an arcuate visor or crown using detents integrally molded to the crown and corresponding through-holes in the faceshield which receive and engage the detents. The use of integrally molded detents...     

The safety helmet for motorcyclists includes a helmet shell and a visor for face cutout of the shell. The visor is attached to the shell in a tilting or sliding manner. The shell generally forms a U-shaped visor frame with a continuous groove into which the similarly curved, transparent visor plate is...     

A helmet with twin visors movable between raised and lowered positions has a locking mechanism for each visor which automatically locks the visor in the raised or lowered position. An operating lever for each visor can be operated with one hand by the wearer, a single movement of the lever first releasing...     

A full face type helmet having a shock absorbing liner disposed throughout the entire inner surface of a cap and an inner pad mounted inside the shock absorbing liner. Right and left cheek pad portions each comprising integral portions of the shock absorbing liner and the inner pad are removable through...     

A helmet, particularly an aircrew helmet, has a rear part (10) and a front part (12). The rear part (10) includes a shell shaped to extend partially over the top of the wearer's head and to each side of the head. The front part (12) is shaped to fit against the rear part (10) to complete the shell of...     

A channel-shaped member (24) for receiving a front lower rim (14) of a hard-hat face shield bracket (12) in a groove (26) thereof includes a lower flange (56) having an upwardly-directed wall (60) for forming a sump (54) for catching and retaining particles (52) passing about the front lower rim inside...     

A protective helmet is provided with a detachable wire face guard firmly secured in protective relation to the sides and peak of the helmet in mutual reinforcing relation therewith. The lightweight, fully ventilated mask affords a high degree of protection, with a wide, substantially unobstructed field...     

A flexible dome-shaped cap is connected to a face shield and is designed to slip over a hard hat. The face shield fits in place to temporarily protect the wearer from splashing liquids and solid particles.

A plastic body impregnated with a friction-reducing additive especially formed for insertion into a helmet and attachment to the inside of the horizontal faceguard bars of the helmet. A specially formed insert presents an anatomically curved rear surface which reduces the ability of an opposing player...     

A visual information display is added to a prior art motorcycle helmet having a headlight. A portion of the light from the headlight is diverted to illuminate an information indicator within the interior portion of the helmet. The information indicator is a translucent disk, rotated in response to a...     

A rescue helmet apparatus which protects the user from hazardous environments includes canisters that provide breathable air to the user. The apparatus features a helmet, reflective cape, and long-lasting lithium-powered lights in an integrated device.

A safety helmet comprises a main body, an overbody spaced from the main body to form an air space between the two, an inner body within the main body, primary air vent apertures extending upwardly and outwardly through the inner and main bodies to the air space, and secondary air vent apertures extending...     

The disclosure herein describes a visor attachment for use in combination with a conventional safty helmet wherein the visor is pivotally mounted at the back of the helmet; when used, such helmet is thus worn front-to-back. The attachment body has two side extensions which are adapted to fit into rim...     

A helmet structure including a transparent shell. The transparent shell including a matrix of ventilation apertures coextensive with the shell. The shell further including a visor mounted at a forward end thereof overlying a forward facial opening, including lateral ventilation ports positioned coextensive...     

In a helmet for riding a vehicle comprising a cap body, a shield plate vertically turnably supported to both left and right side surfaces of the cap body to open or close a window of a front surface of the cap body, and a seal lip sealed with an inner surface of the shield plate at its closed position...     

A helmet for riding a vehicle having a distribution chamber provided in a chin cover portion, an air intake hole for introducing a travelling wind to the distribution chamber, and a plurality of jet holes for blowing out the air of the distribution chamber toward an inner surface of a shield plate. The...