CA2099470A1 - Sun protector for the neck and head - Google Patents
Sun protector for the neck and headInfo
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- CA2099470A1 CA2099470A1 CA002099470A CA2099470A CA2099470A1 CA 2099470 A1 CA2099470 A1 CA 2099470A1 CA 002099470 A CA002099470 A CA 002099470A CA 2099470 A CA2099470 A CA 2099470A CA 2099470 A1 CA2099470 A1 CA 2099470A1
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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
- A42B3/105—Linings with additional protection for the neck
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A42—HEADWEAR
- A42B—HATS; HEAD COVERINGS
- A42B1/00—Hats; Caps; Hoods
- A42B1/018—Hats; Caps; Hoods with means for protecting the eyes, ears or nape, e.g. sun or rain shields; with air-inflated pads or removable linings
- A42B1/0186—Hats; Caps; Hoods with means for protecting the eyes, ears or nape, e.g. sun or rain shields; with air-inflated pads or removable linings with means for protecting the ears or nape
- A42B1/0187—Removable protection for the nape, e.g. sun or rain shields
Abstract
Abstract of the Disclosure Title SUN PROTECTOR FOR THE NECK AND HEAD
The protector is a sheet of fabric material, attached using three Velcro strips to a hard hat, cylicng helmet, etc. The fabric rips clear if it should become snagged on something, without subjecting the user to possible injury of the neck. The fabric can be loose and airy, which is advantageous in a sun shade.
The protector is a sheet of fabric material, attached using three Velcro strips to a hard hat, cylicng helmet, etc. The fabric rips clear if it should become snagged on something, without subjecting the user to possible injury of the neck. The fabric can be loose and airy, which is advantageous in a sun shade.
Description
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rltle: SUN PROTECTOR FOR THE NECK AND HEAD
This invention relates to protecting the head and neck lrom the harmful effects of exposure to the sun.
It is becoming increasingly clear that skin cancers sitsd in the neck, ears, andtemples are associated wlth over-exposure to the sun. Concern over this problem is growing because of indications of a weakening in the eanh's protective ozone layer, which, it is thought, might make the problem worse Persons working out of doors, or participating in outdoor leisure, are thereforeconsidering what forms of protection are available for keeping the sun off these vulnerabte parts of the body.
One of the particular groups about whom concerns are being raised is outdoor construction worksrs, These workers usually wear (by order, in many urisdictions) the traditional hard hat, which, while it provides good protectionagainst inadvertent knocks on the head, provides very little protection against exposure to the sun in the critical areas. ;
Another group attracting concern are cyclists. It is true that helmets for cyclists are b~ing wom increasingly, but again the cycling heimet affords littleprotection against the sun's exposure in the critical areas. Farmers are another \/ulnerable group.
In the prior art, there are many exarnples of scarves, shawls, and the like, which are adapted to fit ovar (or under) a hat or other headgear, and which provide extended coverage; of the neck, face, ears, etc. Many of these devices ~ -are aimed at keeping the wearer warm in freezing weather, and are arranged ~ ;
to fit snugly a~ainst the skin.
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BASIC FEATURES OF THE INVENTION
In the invention, the protector serves as a sun shade. Inevitably, of course, the main usage of the protector is when the weather is hot. It is recognised that the protector should be loose, light, and airy. AJso, the protector should be spaced a little off-set distance away from the head and skin, not only so as to avoid chafing, but also to assist in promoting comfortable ventilation aroundthe head.
It will be understood that such a protector has the potential to be very dangerous. Many accidents occur to persons who wear loose fitting garrnents around the neck and head. For example, many children are injured each year by scarves and loose-fitting headgear becoming caught in playground equipment.
The more loose and flappy the protector, the more likely it is to be caught in something, and thereby injure the wearer. This is especially the case if the wearer is engaged in activities which involve leaning over moving machinery; a construction worker leaning over a concrete mixer, for example. And yet, if the protector is to be acceptable to wearers on a hot day, it should be loose and flappy.
In the invention, wearing the protector is not dangerous.
The protector comprises a sheet of fabric covering the back of the head and neck, pre~erably as far forward as the temple area. The protector is only lightly attached to the hat or headgear, whsreby, if tho protector should be snagged or caught, it will easily rip frae. A suitable form of attachment of theprotector to the headgear is Velcro.
It is thc fac$ of the tear frea fixing that allows ~hc prolector to be ioosa andairy, without being dangerous. VVIthout the tear-free fixing, the protector ws:)uld `
rltle: SUN PROTECTOR FOR THE NECK AND HEAD
This invention relates to protecting the head and neck lrom the harmful effects of exposure to the sun.
It is becoming increasingly clear that skin cancers sitsd in the neck, ears, andtemples are associated wlth over-exposure to the sun. Concern over this problem is growing because of indications of a weakening in the eanh's protective ozone layer, which, it is thought, might make the problem worse Persons working out of doors, or participating in outdoor leisure, are thereforeconsidering what forms of protection are available for keeping the sun off these vulnerabte parts of the body.
One of the particular groups about whom concerns are being raised is outdoor construction worksrs, These workers usually wear (by order, in many urisdictions) the traditional hard hat, which, while it provides good protectionagainst inadvertent knocks on the head, provides very little protection against exposure to the sun in the critical areas. ;
Another group attracting concern are cyclists. It is true that helmets for cyclists are b~ing wom increasingly, but again the cycling heimet affords littleprotection against the sun's exposure in the critical areas. Farmers are another \/ulnerable group.
In the prior art, there are many exarnples of scarves, shawls, and the like, which are adapted to fit ovar (or under) a hat or other headgear, and which provide extended coverage; of the neck, face, ears, etc. Many of these devices ~ -are aimed at keeping the wearer warm in freezing weather, and are arranged ~ ;
to fit snugly a~ainst the skin.
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BASIC FEATURES OF THE INVENTION
In the invention, the protector serves as a sun shade. Inevitably, of course, the main usage of the protector is when the weather is hot. It is recognised that the protector should be loose, light, and airy. AJso, the protector should be spaced a little off-set distance away from the head and skin, not only so as to avoid chafing, but also to assist in promoting comfortable ventilation aroundthe head.
It will be understood that such a protector has the potential to be very dangerous. Many accidents occur to persons who wear loose fitting garrnents around the neck and head. For example, many children are injured each year by scarves and loose-fitting headgear becoming caught in playground equipment.
The more loose and flappy the protector, the more likely it is to be caught in something, and thereby injure the wearer. This is especially the case if the wearer is engaged in activities which involve leaning over moving machinery; a construction worker leaning over a concrete mixer, for example. And yet, if the protector is to be acceptable to wearers on a hot day, it should be loose and flappy.
In the invention, wearing the protector is not dangerous.
The protector comprises a sheet of fabric covering the back of the head and neck, pre~erably as far forward as the temple area. The protector is only lightly attached to the hat or headgear, whsreby, if tho protector should be snagged or caught, it will easily rip frae. A suitable form of attachment of theprotector to the headgear is Velcro.
It is thc fac$ of the tear frea fixing that allows ~hc prolector to be ioosa andairy, without being dangerous. VVIthout the tear-free fixing, the protector ws:)uld `
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have to fit snugly, or it would be dangerous. A snug-fitting sun shade of course would find little acceptability amongst users.
DETAILED DESCRIPTlt)N OF PREFERRED EMBODIME~NT
Embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figs 1A and 1B are Ylews of a person wearing a hard hat, to which is attached a protector that embodies the invention;
- . . :, Fig 2 is a pictorial view of the protector shown in Figs 1A and 1B;
Fi~ 3 Is a view of a protector attached to a cycling helmet;
Fig 4 is a view of a person wearing a baseball cap, to which is attached a protector that embodies the invention.
The procedures and structures shown in the accompanying drawings and :
described below are examples which embody the invention. It should be noted that the scope of the invention is defined by the accompanyin~ claims, and not necessarily by speclfic features of exemplary embodiments. ~ : .
, In Fig 1A, the person is wearing a hard hat 12 of the conventional type as worn in large numbers by construction workers, etc. The hat 12 is made of a metal or hard plastic material, and includes a protruding brim 14. In most models of hard hat, the protruding brim 14 extends all around the periphery of the hat, including at the front, where the brim protrudes still further, and takes the form of a peak 16.
To prepare the hard hat 12 for use with the invention, three strips of Velcro are attached to the hat. Two 18 of the strips are attached to ~he sides of the hat, ~ , .
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just above the brim, in the temple-area of the hat. The third strip 19 is attached centrally at the hack of the hat.
The strips are attached to the hat by means of adhesive, which ,oreferably is ofthe conventional pr~applied kind that is activated by peeling off a protective film. The protector is sold with one half of the Velcro strips stitched to the protector: the complementary halves of the Velcro strips, with the adhesive backing, are pressed thereon, ready for attachment to the hard hat.
The sun-protector 20 comprises a sheet of fabric material. Three strips 23 of Velcro ars stitched into the material of the prot0ctor, and these are arranged to coincide positionally with the strips 18,19 of Velcro attachecl to the hat 12. Of course, the Velcro strips on the hat are the typc that are complementarily-engageable to the Velcro strips on the protector. To secure the protector to the hat, the wearer simply locates the protector in position, and presses the Vetcro strips together. This can be done, with very little attention or skill being demanded of the wearer, either with the hat on the head or with thc hat held in the hands.
The amount of off-set o~ the protector from the face and neck, because of the pr~truding brim of the traditional hard hat, is sufficient that the '~it" of theprotector around the head and neck is characterised as loose and airy. Fig lB especially shows the extent to which this is true, even though, as can be see~l in Fig 1A, the pro~ector is secured well forward into the temple area.
If the protector should become snagged or caught in anything, whether moving machinery, or a branch of a tree, the Velcro attachment will break ~ree.
The arnount of force required to pull the Velcro free is substantially less thanthe force which would injure the head or neck. Even if the force is accidentally applied to the protector in the form of a vicious and entirely unexpected jerk, still the protector will sirnply fall away, and in doing so will : .
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subject the wearer to no more ~han ~ mildly irritating tu1 at the head, which the neck can easily cope with without injury.
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It is preferred that the Velcro attachment take the form only of the short strips, as shown. If the velcro were to extend all around the band or margin of overlap of the protector on the hat, tha force required to make the protector tear free would be much increased, to the extent that it would then be more possible that injury-producing forces could be transmitted to the neck through the velcro connection.
It will be noted that the peel-away connection as shown in Figs 1A,1B is not ~ .
suitable for attaching a protector to a motor cycle helmet. When a motor ~; ;cycle is going at speed, the wind-force tending to pull the protector off the helmet can easily be hi0her the peel-away force that can be allowed: if a higher peel-away force were allowed, the possibility of transmitting forces large enough to injure the neck would then arise.
A pedal cycle, on the other hand, is incapable of reaching the speeds that would tear free a protector that was attached as in Fig 1A. The conventional helmet of a pedal cycle, as shown in Fig 4, prstrudes from the sides and back of the head, though not with the same marked protrusion of the brim as is the case with a hard hat, but is still enough to provide the required degree of off-s~t to hold the protector away from the skin.
The protector as shown can extend weil forward into the face area, and yet the protector is comfortable to wear, being loose and airy, and not touching the ; -skin. These advantages arise at least partially because the protector is worn with the ~ype o~ headgear which protrudes from the sides and back of the head, thus providing the desired off set.
Fig ~ shows a version of the invention, in which the protector is worn with a - -baseball cap of the traditional ~ype. A baseball cap is made of soft fabric (ie, : ~""'''' . ~ .
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soft as compared with a hard hat). A baseball cap, although it has a projecting peak, made of stiffer material, has nothing that could be described as a protruding brim, which will hold the protector off-set a small distance away from the head and neck. Thus, when the protector is used with a baseball cap the advantage that the material of the protector does not touch the skin is lost.
Howsver, the safe~ advantage that the protector will easily rip free if snagged is still present in the baseball cap application of Fig 6, provided the protector is attached in the pear-free manner as described. It may be noted that directl stitching a loose, flappy, neck protector into a baseball cap would be too dangerous. Farmers, especially, wear baseball caps; farmers of course wo~l~
outdoors; and they arc constantly around moving machinery. The dangers o~
a hard-attached flappy protector should be all too apparent, and are no part ~, the present invention.
Not only does the protector pull free easily upon being accidentally snagged, ;
but also it is a simple matter for the wearer to take the protector off upon, say, entering a building. The wearer often prefers to leave the hard hat on indoors, and indeed sometimes is required to do so. If the wearer removes the protector, the protector can easily be folded up for stowage upon the person.
As mentioned, ths thrs~point Velcro a~tachment as described attaches the protector wlth a small enough force that the protector is easily pulled free.
However, the attachment is not so insecure th~t the protector is subject to falling off. It is recognised, in the invention, that in fact a manner of attachment does exist that has the characteristic of a~taching the protector in a perfectly adequately sacure manner for normal operational purposes, but yet which will rip free if necessary before the force can build up to a magnitude Uhat mi~ht injure the neck of the wearer. It is r~co~nised that this advantageous limitation to the pull-free f~rce is achieved automatically, simpiyas a consequence of the particular manner of attachment; the wearer is no~
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called upon to make any adjustments, or the like, over which an injury-producing mistake might be made.
If the Velcro were to be not properly engaged, or were to be only en~aged over a few millirnetres, the protector of course would tend to fall off too easily.
However, there is no requirement for accurate positionin~ of the Velcro strips on the hat. So long as the Velcro strips are located approximately correctly, the fastening will be adequate. This high tolerance on the position of the - ~ :
Velcro is an advantage because the posltioning of the Velcro strips on the hat has to be carried out not by the manufacturer but by the user.
The Velcro fixing system has been described for use in the invention. Velcro has the features of being easy to snag and to tear free, tolerant of mismatch, and the strips are easily attachable to the headgear. However, Velcro is not the only system able to achieve this. For example, dome-type fasteners also may be used. As shown in Fig S, a hard hat is provided with protruding domes, which are riveted into the hard shell of the hat. Such types of fast~ners have often been riveted onto hard hats (by the manu~acturer of the hat) for attaching visors etc.
A complementary button-hole is in that case provided in the protector, or rather three button-holes, to fit ~he three dome-studs, which are provided in place of the Velcro strips. The shapo of the domes and of the button-holes must be such that the protector easily pulls frae if snagged. In fact, it is not -so easy to provide a manner of arrangin~ a dome-and-button-hole connection which will retain the capability over a long se~vice life o~ being able to pull free -easily, and yet of holding the protector firmly enough that the protector does not keep falling off accidentally. It is recognised that Velcro not only has this proper~y which is most advantageous for this application, but also that Velcro can ba expected to retain the property, in fact for as long as it fùnctions at all. ~:
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2a~70 The protector hangs down from the brim of the hat, and touches the shoulders of the wearer. The protector does not touch the head and neck of the wearer.
As shown in Fig 2, the protector is generally rectan~ular in shape, with the well-rounded lower corners as shown. The rectangle is 40 cm lon3 and 28 cm wide.
The protec~or may be made of fire-proof material, for those applications where it might be dangerous for the protector to be flammable.
'~,; .-The protector may be made of waterproof material If it is to be used during such tasks as the spraying of chemicals. Often, a worker will wear protective clothing over his hands and the front of his clothes when spraying, but a simple protector for the exposed neck area has not been available. The protector should not be of such material as will absorb the sprayed substance.
The protector may be brightly coloured or include reflective markings, for safety purposes. In this connection, it may be noted that the protector is especially effective when used by cyclists. The protector is higher off the ground than other items of clothing, and is therefore more visible; and the protector also presents a large area facing directly behind the wearer. Putting alertive markings on a cyclists helmet, by contrast, is of not much use because not much of the helmet faces baclcwards. In Fig 2, the fabric is predominanetly fluorescent orange, with yellow stripes.
have to fit snugly, or it would be dangerous. A snug-fitting sun shade of course would find little acceptability amongst users.
DETAILED DESCRIPTlt)N OF PREFERRED EMBODIME~NT
Embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figs 1A and 1B are Ylews of a person wearing a hard hat, to which is attached a protector that embodies the invention;
- . . :, Fig 2 is a pictorial view of the protector shown in Figs 1A and 1B;
Fi~ 3 Is a view of a protector attached to a cycling helmet;
Fig 4 is a view of a person wearing a baseball cap, to which is attached a protector that embodies the invention.
The procedures and structures shown in the accompanying drawings and :
described below are examples which embody the invention. It should be noted that the scope of the invention is defined by the accompanyin~ claims, and not necessarily by speclfic features of exemplary embodiments. ~ : .
, In Fig 1A, the person is wearing a hard hat 12 of the conventional type as worn in large numbers by construction workers, etc. The hat 12 is made of a metal or hard plastic material, and includes a protruding brim 14. In most models of hard hat, the protruding brim 14 extends all around the periphery of the hat, including at the front, where the brim protrudes still further, and takes the form of a peak 16.
To prepare the hard hat 12 for use with the invention, three strips of Velcro are attached to the hat. Two 18 of the strips are attached to ~he sides of the hat, ~ , .
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just above the brim, in the temple-area of the hat. The third strip 19 is attached centrally at the hack of the hat.
The strips are attached to the hat by means of adhesive, which ,oreferably is ofthe conventional pr~applied kind that is activated by peeling off a protective film. The protector is sold with one half of the Velcro strips stitched to the protector: the complementary halves of the Velcro strips, with the adhesive backing, are pressed thereon, ready for attachment to the hard hat.
The sun-protector 20 comprises a sheet of fabric material. Three strips 23 of Velcro ars stitched into the material of the prot0ctor, and these are arranged to coincide positionally with the strips 18,19 of Velcro attachecl to the hat 12. Of course, the Velcro strips on the hat are the typc that are complementarily-engageable to the Velcro strips on the protector. To secure the protector to the hat, the wearer simply locates the protector in position, and presses the Vetcro strips together. This can be done, with very little attention or skill being demanded of the wearer, either with the hat on the head or with thc hat held in the hands.
The amount of off-set o~ the protector from the face and neck, because of the pr~truding brim of the traditional hard hat, is sufficient that the '~it" of theprotector around the head and neck is characterised as loose and airy. Fig lB especially shows the extent to which this is true, even though, as can be see~l in Fig 1A, the pro~ector is secured well forward into the temple area.
If the protector should become snagged or caught in anything, whether moving machinery, or a branch of a tree, the Velcro attachment will break ~ree.
The arnount of force required to pull the Velcro free is substantially less thanthe force which would injure the head or neck. Even if the force is accidentally applied to the protector in the form of a vicious and entirely unexpected jerk, still the protector will sirnply fall away, and in doing so will : .
2~9~7~
subject the wearer to no more ~han ~ mildly irritating tu1 at the head, which the neck can easily cope with without injury.
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It is preferred that the Velcro attachment take the form only of the short strips, as shown. If the velcro were to extend all around the band or margin of overlap of the protector on the hat, tha force required to make the protector tear free would be much increased, to the extent that it would then be more possible that injury-producing forces could be transmitted to the neck through the velcro connection.
It will be noted that the peel-away connection as shown in Figs 1A,1B is not ~ .
suitable for attaching a protector to a motor cycle helmet. When a motor ~; ;cycle is going at speed, the wind-force tending to pull the protector off the helmet can easily be hi0her the peel-away force that can be allowed: if a higher peel-away force were allowed, the possibility of transmitting forces large enough to injure the neck would then arise.
A pedal cycle, on the other hand, is incapable of reaching the speeds that would tear free a protector that was attached as in Fig 1A. The conventional helmet of a pedal cycle, as shown in Fig 4, prstrudes from the sides and back of the head, though not with the same marked protrusion of the brim as is the case with a hard hat, but is still enough to provide the required degree of off-s~t to hold the protector away from the skin.
The protector as shown can extend weil forward into the face area, and yet the protector is comfortable to wear, being loose and airy, and not touching the ; -skin. These advantages arise at least partially because the protector is worn with the ~ype o~ headgear which protrudes from the sides and back of the head, thus providing the desired off set.
Fig ~ shows a version of the invention, in which the protector is worn with a - -baseball cap of the traditional ~ype. A baseball cap is made of soft fabric (ie, : ~""'''' . ~ .
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soft as compared with a hard hat). A baseball cap, although it has a projecting peak, made of stiffer material, has nothing that could be described as a protruding brim, which will hold the protector off-set a small distance away from the head and neck. Thus, when the protector is used with a baseball cap the advantage that the material of the protector does not touch the skin is lost.
Howsver, the safe~ advantage that the protector will easily rip free if snagged is still present in the baseball cap application of Fig 6, provided the protector is attached in the pear-free manner as described. It may be noted that directl stitching a loose, flappy, neck protector into a baseball cap would be too dangerous. Farmers, especially, wear baseball caps; farmers of course wo~l~
outdoors; and they arc constantly around moving machinery. The dangers o~
a hard-attached flappy protector should be all too apparent, and are no part ~, the present invention.
Not only does the protector pull free easily upon being accidentally snagged, ;
but also it is a simple matter for the wearer to take the protector off upon, say, entering a building. The wearer often prefers to leave the hard hat on indoors, and indeed sometimes is required to do so. If the wearer removes the protector, the protector can easily be folded up for stowage upon the person.
As mentioned, ths thrs~point Velcro a~tachment as described attaches the protector wlth a small enough force that the protector is easily pulled free.
However, the attachment is not so insecure th~t the protector is subject to falling off. It is recognised, in the invention, that in fact a manner of attachment does exist that has the characteristic of a~taching the protector in a perfectly adequately sacure manner for normal operational purposes, but yet which will rip free if necessary before the force can build up to a magnitude Uhat mi~ht injure the neck of the wearer. It is r~co~nised that this advantageous limitation to the pull-free f~rce is achieved automatically, simpiyas a consequence of the particular manner of attachment; the wearer is no~
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called upon to make any adjustments, or the like, over which an injury-producing mistake might be made.
If the Velcro were to be not properly engaged, or were to be only en~aged over a few millirnetres, the protector of course would tend to fall off too easily.
However, there is no requirement for accurate positionin~ of the Velcro strips on the hat. So long as the Velcro strips are located approximately correctly, the fastening will be adequate. This high tolerance on the position of the - ~ :
Velcro is an advantage because the posltioning of the Velcro strips on the hat has to be carried out not by the manufacturer but by the user.
The Velcro fixing system has been described for use in the invention. Velcro has the features of being easy to snag and to tear free, tolerant of mismatch, and the strips are easily attachable to the headgear. However, Velcro is not the only system able to achieve this. For example, dome-type fasteners also may be used. As shown in Fig S, a hard hat is provided with protruding domes, which are riveted into the hard shell of the hat. Such types of fast~ners have often been riveted onto hard hats (by the manu~acturer of the hat) for attaching visors etc.
A complementary button-hole is in that case provided in the protector, or rather three button-holes, to fit ~he three dome-studs, which are provided in place of the Velcro strips. The shapo of the domes and of the button-holes must be such that the protector easily pulls frae if snagged. In fact, it is not -so easy to provide a manner of arrangin~ a dome-and-button-hole connection which will retain the capability over a long se~vice life o~ being able to pull free -easily, and yet of holding the protector firmly enough that the protector does not keep falling off accidentally. It is recognised that Velcro not only has this proper~y which is most advantageous for this application, but also that Velcro can ba expected to retain the property, in fact for as long as it fùnctions at all. ~:
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2a~70 The protector hangs down from the brim of the hat, and touches the shoulders of the wearer. The protector does not touch the head and neck of the wearer.
As shown in Fig 2, the protector is generally rectan~ular in shape, with the well-rounded lower corners as shown. The rectangle is 40 cm lon3 and 28 cm wide.
The protec~or may be made of fire-proof material, for those applications where it might be dangerous for the protector to be flammable.
'~,; .-The protector may be made of waterproof material If it is to be used during such tasks as the spraying of chemicals. Often, a worker will wear protective clothing over his hands and the front of his clothes when spraying, but a simple protector for the exposed neck area has not been available. The protector should not be of such material as will absorb the sprayed substance.
The protector may be brightly coloured or include reflective markings, for safety purposes. In this connection, it may be noted that the protector is especially effective when used by cyclists. The protector is higher off the ground than other items of clothing, and is therefore more visible; and the protector also presents a large area facing directly behind the wearer. Putting alertive markings on a cyclists helmet, by contrast, is of not much use because not much of the helmet faces baclcwards. In Fig 2, the fabric is predominanetly fluorescent orange, with yellow stripes.
Claims (17)
- CLAIM 1. A neck and head protector, which is suitable for use in combination with headgear, wherein:
the protector comprises a flap of fabric material;
the fabric material of the protector has substantially no inherent rigidity, but is loose and flexible;
the arrangement of the protector is such that, in use, the protector hangs loosely over the shoulders;
the protector includes attachment nodes, comprising means for attaching the protector, at the node, to respective complementary attachment points on the headgear;
the nature of the attachment nodes is such that the protector can be pulled away from, and thereby become detached from, the attachment points with a pull-free force;
and the nature of the attachment nodes is such that the said pull-free force is substantially less than a force that will cause injuries of the neck, but is great enough to prevent the protector from failing off the attachment points on the headgear during normal usage of the headgear. - CLAIM 2. Protector of claim 1, wherein the nature of the attachment nodes is such that the protector remains intact and ready for re-use upon being pulled free from the headgear.
- CLAIM 3. Protector of claim 1, wherein the fabric of the protector is so shaped that, in use, the fabric hangs over the ears of the wearer.
- CLAIM 4. Protector of claim 3, wherein the fabric of the protector is so shaped that, in use, the fabric hangs over the temple area of the wearer.
- CLAIM 5. Protector of claim 1, wherein the protector comprises a generally rectangular sheet of the fabric, of dimensions 48 cm long and 28 cm wide.
- CLAIM 6. Protector of claim 1, wherein the protector includes three of the said attachment nodes, and the nodes are separated by respective substantial lengths of the protector between the nodes which is unattached to the headgear.
- CLAIM 7. Protector of claim 6, wherein the protector comprises a generally rectangular sheet of the fabric, and the three nodes are positioned one each at the corners of, and contiguous with, one of the long sides of the rectangle, and the third in the centre of, and contiguous with, that long side.
- CLAIM 8. Protector of claim 1, wherein the attachment nodes on the protector include respective strips of Velcro, stitched into the fabric material of the protector.
- CLAIM 9. Protector of claim 8, wherein the attachment points on the headgear comprise complementary strips of Velcro secured at corresponding locations on the headgear, remains there when flap removed
- CLAIM 10. Protector of claim 1, wherein:
the headgear comprises a safety helmet of a hard material;
and the helmet is of the type that protrudes at least a small off-set distance out from the head. - CLAIM 11. Protector of claim 10, wherein the distance the helmet protrudes, and the nature of the protector, are such that the protector, hanging from the helmet, hangs substantially free of the wearer's head and neck.
- CLAIM 12. Protector of claim 10, wherein the helmet is of the type that includes a protruding hard brim.
- CLAIM 13. Protector of claim 12, wherein the helmet is of the type in which the brim extends circumferentially over at least the sides and back of the helmet.
- CLAIM 14. Protector of claim 1, wherein the fabric is an industrial-weight cotton or cotton-containing fabric.
- CLAIM 15, Protector of claim 1, wherein the protector is of bright, alertive colouring.
- CLAIM 16. Protector of claim 1, wherein the material of the protector is fireproof.
- CLAIM 17. Protector of claim 1, wherein the material of the protector is of the type that is resistant to absorption of sprayed chemicals.
Priority Applications (1)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| CA002099470A CA2099470A1 (en) | 1993-06-30 | 1993-06-30 | Sun protector for the neck and head |
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| CA002099470A CA2099470A1 (en) | 1993-06-30 | 1993-06-30 | Sun protector for the neck and head |
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|---|---|
| CA2099470A1 true CA2099470A1 (en) | 1994-12-31 |
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| CA002099470A Abandoned CA2099470A1 (en) | 1993-06-30 | 1993-06-30 | Sun protector for the neck and head |
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| ES2339319A1 (en) * | 2008-07-08 | 2010-05-18 | Patricio Marchand Maestre | System of solar protection of the neck for helmets, caps or similar. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| EP1662923A1 (en) * | 2003-09-18 | 2006-06-07 | Simon Malcolm Husbands | An protection attachment for a safety helmet |
| EP1662923A4 (en) * | 2003-09-18 | 2007-08-01 | Simon Malcolm Husbands | An protection attachment for a safety helmet |
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| ES2339319A1 (en) * | 2008-07-08 | 2010-05-18 | Patricio Marchand Maestre | System of solar protection of the neck for helmets, caps or similar. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) |
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