EP0741526B1 - Masque protecteur a mentonniere - Google Patents

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EP0741526B1
EP0741526B1 EP95906861A EP95906861A EP0741526B1 EP 0741526 B1 EP0741526 B1 EP 0741526B1 EP 95906861 A EP95906861 A EP 95906861A EP 95906861 A EP95906861 A EP 95906861A EP 0741526 B1 EP0741526 B1 EP 0741526B1
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face shield
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Martin P. Pernicka
Paul Isabelle
Hubert Gagnon
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Leader Industries Inc Canada
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  • the present invention relates to a face shield for use with a sports headgear equipped with a chin contacting element.
  • face guards for sports headgear such as football or hockey helmets
  • a shield which can be either of the grill type, consisting of metallic bars, or of the visor type wherein a transparent plastic member extends at least over the viewing portion of the face guard.
  • the strap when secured to the helmet by means of snaps, serves to tightly maintain the helmet to the head of the wearer.
  • the strap is cumbersome.
  • the strap In football, for example, very often the strap must be unsnapped after each play in order to release the pressure exerted on the player's head. In hockey, the strap must be maintained loose in order to enable the player to remove his helmet for cooling.
  • EP-A 258 552 which represents the closest prior art, discloses a face guard for a sports headgear comprising :
  • a sport headgear consisting of a helmet 12 and of a face guard 14, the latter being hingedly connected to the helmet at opposite sides thereof through appropriate hinge elements 16.
  • These elements are mounted for pivotal movement to an adapter 18 secured to the helmet and serving as an intermediate member between the helmet and the shield.
  • Interlocking elements 20 and 22 respectively mounted to the adapter and to the face shield allow the face shield to be secured to the helmet; on the other hand, these interlocking elements are releasable to enable a manual disengagement whereby the face shield may be lifted outwardly over the helmet.
  • the face guard 14 consists in the present embodiment of a transparent arc-shaped body made of plastics material and having an upper part defining a central viewing section and opposite side sections.
  • the side sections are secured by fastening elements 24 received in a slotted member 26 which serves to permit various positionings of the face guard relative to the helmet.
  • the lower part of the face shield has a grill type structure with a series of openings 29 allowing for ventilation. Similar openings 30 are provided on each side section of the transparent body to also provide ventilation to the user.
  • a chin device in the shape of an arc-shaped rigid frame 32 has a pair of opposite side wings 32a, 32b which are pivotally connected by appropriate fastening hinge elements 34 to the sides 36 of the face shield 14.
  • the common axis extending through both hinges 34 coincides with the pivotal axis of a human jaw.
  • the position of this axis may vary, as described in the above-mentioned co-pending application, to conform with the varying face configurations of users; this is achieved by manipulating and adjusting the fastening elements 24 on each side of the face shield.
  • the arc-shaped rigid frame comprises an upper edge 38 and a lower edge 40 (see figure 4).
  • the downward movement of the frame 32 is limited by the upper edge 38 of the frame when contacting the lower edge 42 of the face shield 14.
  • a chin contacting element 50 is mounted in the front central region of the frame 32.
  • This element comprises a rigid outer shell 52 and an inner chin contacting cushion element 54.
  • Shell 52 is mounted to the frame in a manner that it can pivot relative to the frame about a pair of hinge elements 56 and 58.
  • the hinges 56 and 58 each have a head portion (see 56' in figure 3) which can be snapped in and out of a series of vertically spaced openings 60 in the frame, again to provide comfortable positioning of the chin device on the chin of a user.
  • the chin contacting device has a double pivot adjustability with respect to the user's chin in that it pivots about the hinges 56 and 58 of the frame which, in turn, may pivot about the pivots 34 on each side of the frame.
  • FIGS 7 and 8 show another embodiment of the present invention wherein a chin contacting device 100 is mounted directly to the lower part of a face shield 102.
  • the lower grill-like structure 104 of the face shield is provided with one or more openings 106 on opposite sides of the central region of the face shield so that the head of hinge elements 108, 110 may be snappily engaged therein. Again, an adjustment is possible by properly locating the hinge elements in the desired opening.
  • These hinge elements are fixed to the rigid outer shell 112 of the chin device which also includes an inner cup-shaped cushion element 114.

Claims (11)

  1. Masque protecteur destiné à une coiffe pour la pratique des sports comprenant :
    un écran de protection du visage (14) définissant un corps incurvé possédant une section de visière avant et des sections latérales opposées, lesdites sections latérales étant adaptées pour être fixées à un casque faisant partie de la coiffe pour la pratique des sports ;
    un dispositif de mentonnière définissant un cadre rigide incurvé (32) monté de manière articulée ; ledit cadre définissant une région centrale et des régions latérales opposées, lesdites régions latérales étant reliées de manière pivotante auxdites sections latérales dudit écran de protection du visage ;
    un élément en contact avec le menton (50) ; et
    des moyens limitant le mouvement de pivotement descendant dudit cadre,
       caractérisé en ce que :
    le cadre rigide incurvé (32) du dispositif de mentonnière est monté de manière articulée sur une partie inférieure dudit corps incurvé dudit écran de protection du visage (14) et à l'intérieur de celui-ci ;
    ledit cadre (32) est relié de manière pivotante auxdites sections latérales dudit écran de protection du visage (14) ; et
    l'élément en contact avec le menton (50) est fixé à ladite région centrale dudit cadre (32).
  2. Masque protecteur selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit corps de protection du visage possède une partie inférieure définissant un bord périphérique inférieur (42) ; ledit cadre (38) dudit dispositif de mentonnière (32) définissant un bord périphérique supérieur (38) ; lesdits moyens de limitation étant constitués par ledit bord périphérique supérieur (38) qui vient en contact avec ledit bord périphérique inférieur (42) lors d'un mouvement descendant de celui-ci.
  3. Masque protecteur selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit élément en contact avec le menton (50) est monté de manière articulée audit cadre (32).
  4. Masque protecteur selon la revendication 3, dans lequel ledit élément en contact avec le menton (50) est en forme de coupelle, avec ses côtés opposés reliés de manière pivotante audit cadre (32).
  5. Masque protecteur selon la revendication 3, dans lequel ledit élément en contact avec le menton (50) est constitué d'une coque rigide extérieure (52) et d'un matériau d'amortissement intérieur (54).
  6. Masque protecteur selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit cadre (32) définit une structure de grille.
  7. Masque protecteur selon la revendication 2, dans lequel ledit écran de protection du visage (14) est réalisé dans une matière plastique transparente.
  8. Masque protecteur selon la revendication 7, dans lequel ladite section de visière dudit écran de protection du visage (14) comprend une série d'ouvertures latérales (30) permettant l'aération.
  9. Masque protecteur selon la revendication 7, dans lequel ladite partie inférieure dudit écran de protection du visage (14) définit une structure de grille comprenant des ouvertures d'aération (29).
  10. Masque protecteur destiné à une coiffe pour la pratique des sports comprenant :
    un écran de protection du visage (102) définissant un corps incurvé possédant une section de visière avant et des sections latérales opposées, lesdites sections latérales étant adaptées pour être fixées à un casque faisant partie de la coiffe pour la pratique des sports ;
    un élément en contact avec le menton (100) fixé à la partie inférieure dudit écran de protection du visage (102), caractérisé en ce que l'élément en contact avec le menton (100) est fixé en position centrale à la partie inférieure de l'écran de protection du visage ; et en ce que
    des moyens de coopération, à savoir les moyens d'articulation (108, 110), sont prévus sur ladite partie inférieure dudit écran de protection du visage (102) et sur ledit élément en contact avec le menton (100), ce qui permet audit dispositif en contact avec le menton de pivoter à l'intérieur de ladite partie inférieure dudit écran de protection du visage (102) et par rapport à celle-ci.
  11. Masque protecteur selon la revendication 10, dans lequel lesdits moyens de coopération comprennent des moyens permettant différentes positions dudit élément en contact avec le menton (100) par rapport à ladite partie inférieure dudit écran de protection du visage (102).
EP95906861A 1994-02-01 1995-01-27 Masque protecteur a mentonniere Expired - Lifetime EP0741526B1 (fr)

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CA2114825 1994-02-01
CA002114825A CA2114825C (fr) 1994-04-25 1994-02-01 Protecteur facial muni d'une mentonniere
PCT/CA1995/000044 WO1995020885A1 (fr) 1994-02-01 1995-01-27 Masque protecteur a mentonniere

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