EP1876917B1 - Anordnung aus stütze und drehbarem halter - Google Patents

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EP1876917B1
EP1876917B1 EP06733165A EP06733165A EP1876917B1 EP 1876917 B1 EP1876917 B1 EP 1876917B1 EP 06733165 A EP06733165 A EP 06733165A EP 06733165 A EP06733165 A EP 06733165A EP 1876917 B1 EP1876917 B1 EP 1876917B1
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Trevor Russell
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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
    • A42B3/0406—Accessories for helmets
    • A42B3/0433—Detecting, signalling or lighting devices
    • A42B3/044—Lighting devices, e.g. helmets with lamps
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V21/00—Supporting, suspending, or attaching arrangements for lighting devices; Hand grips
    • F21V21/08—Devices for easy attachment to any desired place, e.g. clip, clamp, magnet
    • F21V21/084—Head fittings

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  • the present invention relates to an orientatable holder/support assembly and components thereof as well as related methodologies and resultant assemblies and uses. More specifically apparatus that allows for the adjustable attachment of an item to an object and more specifically for the use of a light and holders thereof for safety helmets.
  • an item of headwear such as a safety helmet conveniently should be associated with an accessory such as a torch or other lighting device.
  • a lighting device it is important that it is appropriately oriented to take into account the needs of the wearer of the item of headwear. For example, a fireman advancing down a corridor under a pall of smoke may be crouched and therefore the lighting might be better directed in a different direction than would be the case if the person was upright.
  • WO 2004/106805 discloses a lamp fixing device for use on a protection helmet having a support unit integrated on the helmet, and an attaching unit inserted into a guide unit along the engagement direction, and wherein the engagement direction is perpendicular to the sliding direction.
  • the means for attaching the lamp fixing device, and the means for indexing the torch to a particular orientation are formed from two separate parts. This requires an increased sized support element.
  • the insertion of the lamp fixing device into the support unit requires both vertical and horizontal movements, something which increases the time in which it takes to attach or replace a lamp into the support unit. When in an emergency situation it is desired that all manipulations are as simple as possible since such situations generally dictate haste.
  • the present invention therefore envisages a holder suitable for supporting a torch or other lighting device associable with a mount.
  • a mount Preferably said mount itself is integral with an item of headwear.
  • the present invention also relates to the individual components and irrespective of whether or not such components are destined for association with headwear.
  • the present invention also recognises a need to be able to speedily remove the holder and/or torch or other lighting device from the mount or to reorient the holder and thus the torch or other lighting device and in various aspects of the present invention that is an object of the present invention.
  • the apparatus comprises a coupling member and a rotational insert member, said rotational insert member carrying or being adapted to carry a utility such as a torch or other lighting device, and said coupling member being integral with or being attachable to a support such as, by way of example, an item of headwear, wherein there is the prospect of association of said coupling and rotational insert members in or from a direction that is substantially normal to a rotational axis that is defined by such engagement, and wherein the nature of the inter-engagement is such as to allow the thus associated members to be rotated about the said rotational axis or an axis parallel thereto (if it is necessarily to partially disengage them to allow rotation), the members however, having an inter-engagement such that there is a finite number of stable orientations of the rotational insert member relative to the coupling member.
  • the coupling insert member is provided with features adapting it for insertion or pegging into receiving openings or the like of a safety helmet.
  • the coupling member includes a female receiver of a protuberant member of said rotational insert member, said protuberant member of said rotational insert member having a wheel like formation having corresponding to the finite orientations appropriate forms on the perimeter thereof.
  • the coupling and rotational insert members are press or other fit inter-engageable.
  • a further aspect of the present invention consists in a coupling member of a kind previously defined whether substantially as hereinafter described with reference to any one or more feature of any one or more of the accompanying drawing or not.
  • the rotational insert member correspondingly is substantially as hereinafter described in so far as any feature thereof is concerned irrespective of whether or not shown in any one or more of the accompanying drawing.
  • This invention may also be the broadly to consist in the parts, elements and features referred to or indicated in the specification of the application, individually or collectively, and any or all combinations of any two or more of the parts, elements or features, and where specific integers are mentioned herein which have known equivalents in the art to which this invention relates, such known equivalents are deemed to be incorporated herein as if individually set forth.
  • the present invention provides an apparatus useful for enabling the removable fixing of an item to an object such as a helmet and wherein said item is able to be rotated relative to said helmet as desired by the user and so that said item, once rotated, remains in the desired orientation.
  • said holder 1 is substantially tubular and able to be engaged via its rotational insert 2 with the coupling member 3 of the mounting component 4. It should be appreciated that the holder 1 can be of any shape or design that enables an item 6 (such as a torch or flashlight) to be engaged with the holder 1. Such alternate embodiments/include those known in the art which includes clips, locking mechanisms, magnetic attachments etc.
  • the holder 1 can be formed separately or integrally with the rotational insert 2.
  • any accessory could thus be attached to the helmet 7 via the coupling member 3 of the mounting component 4 so long as the accessory has a rotational insert 2 that is complementary to the coupling member 3.
  • each shell (with the exception of the innermost layer) can have on its interior surface one of the above members that is complementary to the member on the outer surface of the adjacent inner shell layer.
  • a torch could be attach to it by using the holder 1 having the complementary shaped rotation insert 2 that inserts into the coupling member 3. If a further level of helmet shell is required, then the holder 1 can be removed and the next shell placed over the inner shell.
  • the outer shell can thus have on its inner surface a complementary shaped member similar to the rotational insert 2 that inserts into the coupling member 3 of the inner helmet shell.
  • the outer surface of the outer helmet can also have on it the coupling member 3 such that a torch (or any accessory) can now be transferred to the outer surface of the outer helmet.
  • Both the holder 1 and rotational insert 2 can be formed out of any appropriate material or combination thereof such as a plastics, fibreglass, plastic composite reinforced with fibreglass or Aramid materials, metal, wood etc.
  • said rotational insert 2 is a substantially circular multi-sided disk integrally moulded with said holder 1. Said rotational insert 2 is engagable within the coupling member 3 as shown in Figure 4 . Once engaged the complementary nature of the coupling member 3 holds said rotational insert 2 firmly in place.
  • the mounting component may have on its inner surface a mechanism to keep the rotational insert in place, such as for example a projection.
  • the interengagement of the rotational insert 2 and/or holder 1 with the mounting component 4 is performed by the user sliding the rotational insert 2 into the coupling member 3 such that the rotational insert 2 is held within the walls 5 of the coupling member 3.
  • the rotational insert 2 is held firmly in place in an indexing position owing to the complementary nature of the coupling member 3.
  • the side walls 5 of the coupling member are in close proximity with the sides of the rotational insert 2 preventing passive rotation of the holder 1 relative to the mounting component 4.
  • rotational insert 2 Whilst a twelve sided rotational insert is shown in the attached figures it should be appreciated that a rotational insert 2 with any number of sides can be used, so long as they allow the rotational insert 2 to be held firmly in place when in a preferred alignment.
  • the number of preferred alignments is related to the number of sides of which the rotational insert 2 is formed. For example, as shown in the attached figures, a twelve sided rotational insert 2 comprises 11 possible preferred alignments.
  • Non-claimed embodiments could include a ball foot indexable with the coupling member.
  • an assembly of the present invention is attachable to an object such as a helmet and once attached can receive an item 6 such as a torch (as seen in Figure 8 ).
  • the mounting component 4 can be separated from the helmet 7, and in such an embodiment the mounting component 4 is therefore able to be removed and attached from the helmet 7.
  • Many different methods can be used for attaching the mounting component to the helmet such as clips, magnets, lock-and-key arrangement, VelcroTM etc.
  • projections 8 on the base of the mounting component 4 can be used such that they engage or peg into complementary holes on the helmet.
  • the mounting component 4 can be permanently fixed to the helmet 7, or indeed, could be formed integrally with the helmet 7.

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Claims (8)

  1. Vorrichtung, die Folgendes umfasst oder aufweist:
    ein Kopplungselement (3) und ein drehbares Einsteckelement (2), wobei das drehbare Einsteckelement (2) eine Einrichtung oder ein Zubehör trägt oder geeignet ist, eine Einrichtung oder ein Zubehör zu tragen, und das Kopplungselement (3) einteilig mit einer Unterstützung ausgebildet oder an diese anfügbar ist, und
    wobei eine Vereinigung des Kopplungselements (3) und des drehbaren Einsteckelements (2) in Aussicht genommen wird, und
    wobei die Art des Eingriffs derart ist, dass es den hierdurch vereinten Elementen möglich ist, sich um die Drehachse oder eine dazu parallele Achse zu drehen, wobei die Elemente so miteinander in Eingriff sind, dass es eine endliche Anzahl stabiler Orientierungen des drehbaren Einsteckelements (2) in Bezug auf das Kopplungselement (3) gibt, und
    wobei die Mittel, die Eingriff und Drehbewegung ermöglichen, einteilig als ein Bauteil ausgebildet sind,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Aussicht auf Vereinigung des Kopplungselements (3) und des drehbaren Einsteckelements (2) in oder aus einer Richtung besteht, die im Wesentlichen senkrecht zu einer Drehachse ist, die durch einen derartigen Eingriff festgelegt ist; und
    das Kopplungselement (3) eine Aufnahme für ein vorstehendes Element des drehbaren Einsteckelements (2) aufweist, wobei das vorstehende Element des drehbaren Einsteckelements (2) ein radähnliches Gebilde mit geeigneten Formen, die den endlichen Orientierungen entsprechen, am Umfang aufweist.
  2. Baugruppe nach Anspruch 1, wobei das Kopplungselement (3) Merkmale aufweist, durch die es für ein Einführen oder Einstecken in Aufnahmeöffnungen oder dergleichen eines Schutzhelms geeignet ist.
  3. Baugruppe nach Anspruch 1 oder 2 wobei die Elemente (2), (3) im Pressverband oder auf andere Weise im Eingriff sind.
  4. Baugruppe nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, wobei das Radgebilde in der Aufnahme des Kopplungselements (3) reibschlüssig in Eingriff gelangt.
  5. Baugruppe nach Anspruch 4, wobei mindestens ein Teil der Aufnahme elastisch verformbar ist, um das Drehen des drehbaren Einsteckelements (2), in Bezug auf das Kopplungselement (3), zwischen benachbarten Orientierungen zu ermöglichen.
  6. Baugruppe nach Anspruch 5, wobei die Aufnahme im Wesentlichen U-förmig ist.
  7. Baugruppe nach Anspruch 6, wobei sich auf einem Teil der Innenfläche der "U"-förmigen Aufnahme ein Vorsprung befindet, um das Festhalten des drehbaren Einsteckelements (2) zu verbessern, wenn es mit der Aufnahme in Eingriff ist.
  8. Baugruppe nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, wobei das Kopplungselement (3) an einem Helm lösbar befestigt ist.
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PCT/NZ2006/000076 WO2006112735A1 (en) 2005-04-20 2006-04-20 A support and rotatable holder assembly

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