U.S. patent application number 09/434550 was filed with the patent office on 2002-01-17 for visor attachment assembly for helmet.
Invention is credited to NELSON, LOWELL.
Application Number | 20020004946 09/434550 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 23724687 |
Filed Date | 2002-01-17 |
United States Patent
Application |
20020004946 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
NELSON, LOWELL |
January 17, 2002 |
VISOR ATTACHMENT ASSEMBLY FOR HELMET
Abstract
The visor attachment assembly for mounting on a helmet
comprising an elastic, flexible and resilient cover, hood or cap
constructed, sized and arranged to be elastically received over a
helmet and held thereto and a visor affixed to and extending
outwardly from the cover, hood or cap.
Inventors: |
NELSON, LOWELL; (PARK RIDGE,
IL) |
Correspondence
Address: |
THOMAS R VIGIL
C/O VIGIL & ASSOCIATES
836 SOUTH NORTHWEST HIGHWAY
BARRINGTON
IL
60010
|
Family ID: |
23724687 |
Appl. No.: |
09/434550 |
Filed: |
November 8, 1999 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
2/175.3 ;
2/175.1; 2/195.1; 2/195.3 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A42B 3/227 20130101;
A42B 3/003 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
2/175.3 ;
2/175.1; 2/195.1; 2/195.3 |
International
Class: |
A42B 001/22; A42B
001/24; A42B 001/00 |
Claims
I claim:
1. A visor attachment assembly for quickly mounting and removing a
visor onto or from a helmet comprising: an elastic, flexible and
resilient cover, hood or cap constructed, sized and arranged to be
elastically received over a helmet and held thereto; and a visor
affixed to and extending outwardly from the cover, hood or cap.
2. The visor attachment assembly of claim 1 wherein said visor has
a stiffener strip in or on the underside thereof.
3. The visor assembly of claim 1 wherein said cover, hood or cap is
made of a mesh or net material to facilitate flexing of said cover,
hood or cap.
4. The visor assembly of claim 1 including an elastic band fixed to
or being a part of said cover, hood or cap and located adjacent a
lower edge of said cover, hood or cap.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention.
[0002] The present invention relates to a visor attachment assembly
for a helmet. More specifically, the present invention relates an
attachment assembly comprising a visor and a cover, hood or cap
made of an elastic or stretchable fabric or covering for a helmet
attached to the visor.
[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art.
[0004] Heretofore various visor assembles and visor attachments for
helmets have been proposed. Examples of previously proposed
non-analogous visor assembles are disclosed in the following U.S.
patents:
1 U.S. Pat. No. Patentee 4,475,254 Bay 4,575,875 Dawson et al.
4,718,127 Rittmann et al. 5,091,997 Foehl 5,113,535 Hedges et al.
5,187,502 Howell 5,333,329 Hong 5,469,584 Casartelli
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0005] According to the present invention there is provided a visor
attachment assembly for mounting on a helmet comprising:
[0006] an elastic, flexible and resilient cover, hood or cap
constructed, sized and arranged to be elastically received over a
helmet and held thereto; and
[0007] a visor affixed to and extending outwardly from the cover,
hood or cap.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0008] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a visor attachment assembly
constructed according to the teachings of the present
invention.
[0009] FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the visor attachment assembly
of the present invention shown in FIG. 1.
[0010] FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the visor attachment
assembly shown in FIG. 2 positioned over a helmet.
[0011] FIG. 4 is a rear elevational view of the visor attachment
assembly and helmet shown in FIG. 3.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT(S)
[0012] Referring now to the drawings in greater detail, there is
illustrated in FIG. 1 a visor attachment assembly comprising a
visor 12 and a fabric cover, hood or cap 14 which is constructed
and arranged to be received over a helmet 16 (FIGS. 3 and 4).
[0013] According to the teachings of the present invention, the
cover, hood or cap 14 is constructed, sized and arranged to be
snugly received over a conventional helmet 16. To achieve this
function, the cover, hood or cap 14 is preferably made of a
stretchable flexible resilient material, such as a mesh or net
material 17 shown in FIG. 1, which easily can be stretched over the
helmet 16.
[0014] Alternatively, and as shown in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4, the cover,
hood or cap 14 can include an elastic band 18 around the lower edge
thereof for facilitating expansion of a lower edge 20 of the cover,
hood or cap 14 to facilitate mounting of the visor attachment
assembly on a helmet 16 and, with the elastic band 18, firmly hold
the cover, hood or cap 14 to the helmet 16.
[0015] One preferred material for the cover, hood or cap 14 is a
lycra, or, alternatively, a mesh or net material.
[0016] Preferably, the visor 12 is made of a stretch material with
a stiffening element 22, as shown in phantom in FIG. 2 The visor
attachment assembly is particularly useful with helmets, such as
helmets worn by youngsters while skiing and by cyclists. In
particular, on sunny, rainy days or snowy days, a skier or cyclist
can quickly and easily mount the visor attachment assembly on a
helmet and provide protection over the eyes, and perhaps sunglasses
worn by the user, in a simple and efficient manner.
[0017] Then, when there is no need to use the visor attachment
assembly, such as when the snow or rain has stopped falling or when
the sun is no longer an eye irritant to the skier or cyclist, the
visor attachment assembly can be easily, simply and quickly removed
from the helmet and compacted to a small volume and inserted in a
pocket, while the user is still wearing the helmet 16.
[0018] As a result, the visor attachment assembly of the present
invention enables a skier, cyclist or other user of a helmet 16 to
simply and quickly mount a visor 12 on the helmet 16 by mounting
the visor attachment assembly to the helmet 16 and simply and
quickly remove the visor 12 from the helmet 16 by pulling off the
visor attachment assembly 12 from the helmet 16.
[0019] From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that the
visor attachment assembly of the present invention has a number of
advantages, some of which have been described above and others
which are inherent in the invention. Also, modifications can be
made to the visor attachment assembly of the present invention
without department from the teachings of the present invention.
Accordingly, the scope of the invention is only to be limited as
necessitated by the accompanying claims.
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